Narratives of protagonism, the judoist Willy Schneider

• Autor(a) principal: Reyes Boehl, Walter
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Ignácio, Mauro Castro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno de Educação Física e Esporte
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/cadernoedfisica/article/view/30030
• topic: história oral; judô; artes marciais; oral history; judô; martial arts

BACKGROUND: This text is part of an ongoing research whose scope is the analysis of the development of judo in the city of Porto Alegre, with a time frame starting from the 1970s to the present day, from one of its protagonists.OBJECTIVE: The objective is to highlight the practice of judo in the region based on the trajectory of judoka Willy Schneider.METHODS: Based on the theoretical-methodological contribution of Oral History - a method aimed at the production of narratives as sources of knowledge, but, above all, of knowledge, and which allows the expansion of interpretations of the past - interviews granted between 2012 and 2022 were analyzed. , by Willy Adolfo Schneider, which were confronted with other documentary, imagery and journalistic sources.RESULTS: Remembering, therefore, the stages of Willy’s trajectory, allowed us to trace, historically, a sociocultural scenario of judo, especially in the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, from the 1970s to the present day.CONCLUSION: Knowing, registering and reporting life trajectories like Willy Schneider’s makes it possible to give visibility to the legacy built through the teaching of this martial art, in addition to valuing the efforts of those who are often forgotten by the media, but who persist in their life purposes.