“We don’t even count bruises,” says the captain of the women’s judo team from Oensingen
The women’s team of Judo-Kwai Oensingen is one of the top four in Switzerland. And this despite the fact that they are only contesting their second season. Captain Nina Weber on the reasons for success, prejudices and what she has learned from Japanese martial arts.
Nina Weber (left), the captain of the women’s judo team from Oensingen, throws a throw at her colleague Gisela Loffel.
When her mother sent her to judo as a child, she didn’t like it. Nina Weber sits in the lounge of Judo-Kwai Oensingen and laughs. Kwai is Japanese and means club. At that time, the 24-year-old attended a beginner’s course. “Especially fighting did not suit me at all,” she looks back. She was also on the swimming team at the time. She finished the course anyway. And never stopped exercising.
