Jiu Jitsu: The Effective Japanese Mode of Self-defense (1913)
Book Details
Author(s)Frederick R. Toombs
ISBN / ASINB01GVPR42Y
ISBN-13978B01GVPR429
Sales Rank552,610
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This book originally published in 1920 contains photos and instructions in the Japanese martial art of jui jitsu, a method of close combat for defeating an armed and armored opponent in which one uses no weapon.
From inside the book :
"Jiu jitsu, the much talked of Japanese system of self-defense, has attracted so much attention throughout the English speaking world that its acceptation in this country as a meritorious branch of combative athletics causes not the slightest surprise among broad minded people.
"Like all innovations, especially foreign ones, jiu jitsu was at first disparaged by scores of people. Some of them still hold to their original opinions, but many have delved deep into the subject, with the result that they now admit the science contains much of striking value.
Jiu jitsu is one of the oldest known branches of self-defense. Authentic records of its existence before the Christian era are now in possession of the Mikado of Japan. History relates that so far back as 200 years before Christ the supporters of the Japanese emperor of that time fought unarmed against hostile tribes and, aided by jiu jitsu, completely defeated them. The tribes in question carried the arms of the day, but this advantage availed them nothing against the disconcerting and often deadly tricks of the jiu jitsu experts.
Since that early period the art has advanced considerably, although the principal tricks have been kept secret. There are some jiu jitsu manoeuvres that have never been explained to ‘Europeans or Americans.—and probably they never will be.
"Thus it will readily be seen that jiu jitsu is different from boxing and wrestling, although many wrestling manoeuvres are used in it, either entirely or in part, or in combination. For instance, all jiu jitsu experts use forms of the arm lock, the full Nelson, half Nelson, chancery holds, cross buttocks, arm and leg grapevines, waist holds, leg holds, and strangles. There is absolutely nothing in common, however, between boxing and jiu jitsu. Boxing is not indulged in to any noticeable extent by “Japs.” They prefer fencing and wrestling."
From inside the book :
"Jiu jitsu, the much talked of Japanese system of self-defense, has attracted so much attention throughout the English speaking world that its acceptation in this country as a meritorious branch of combative athletics causes not the slightest surprise among broad minded people.
"Like all innovations, especially foreign ones, jiu jitsu was at first disparaged by scores of people. Some of them still hold to their original opinions, but many have delved deep into the subject, with the result that they now admit the science contains much of striking value.
Jiu jitsu is one of the oldest known branches of self-defense. Authentic records of its existence before the Christian era are now in possession of the Mikado of Japan. History relates that so far back as 200 years before Christ the supporters of the Japanese emperor of that time fought unarmed against hostile tribes and, aided by jiu jitsu, completely defeated them. The tribes in question carried the arms of the day, but this advantage availed them nothing against the disconcerting and often deadly tricks of the jiu jitsu experts.
Since that early period the art has advanced considerably, although the principal tricks have been kept secret. There are some jiu jitsu manoeuvres that have never been explained to ‘Europeans or Americans.—and probably they never will be.
"Thus it will readily be seen that jiu jitsu is different from boxing and wrestling, although many wrestling manoeuvres are used in it, either entirely or in part, or in combination. For instance, all jiu jitsu experts use forms of the arm lock, the full Nelson, half Nelson, chancery holds, cross buttocks, arm and leg grapevines, waist holds, leg holds, and strangles. There is absolutely nothing in common, however, between boxing and jiu jitsu. Boxing is not indulged in to any noticeable extent by “Japs.” They prefer fencing and wrestling."
