“Anyone who watches this material will learn not from your humble servant, but from true masters,” he said.

Image A Russian video: Lets Learn Judo With Vladimir Putin. Credit... Kirill Kudrjavtsev/A.F.P. — Getty Images

The video is part of a growing media library highlighting Mr. Putin’s masculinity that includes episodes of Mr. Putin, a former K.G.B. agent, bare-chested on a fishing expedition and in flight in a fighter jet. No cameras were rolling when Mr. Putin was said to have tranquilized the tiger as it stalked the journalists who had accompanied the prime minister and some scientists on a scientific expedition to Russia’s Far East in late August.

The judo video includes instructional tips from Mr. Putin, a black belt, and from Yasuhiro Yamashita, a former world champion, among others, according to press reports. It will first be sold in martial arts schools throughout the country, and only later at some unspecified date will it be available to the public, First Channel, a state broadcaster, reported.

In one video fragment shown on Russian television, an Asian-style flute whistles in the background, as a black-clad Mr. Putin describes the principles of judo.

“The name itself carries the foundational philosophy: to receive the greatest result with little, but effective, effort,” he says. “In a bout, compromises and concessions are allowed, but only in one case: if it is for victory.”