Brazilian Jiu-jitsu

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The Origin

Jiu-jitsu is different from other martial arts because it was not developed from any exact part of the world. On the other hand, it was born from the adaptation of different basics and moved along all over Asia before finally developed in Japan.

The monks in the North India were the very important to the beginning of Jiu-jitsu development. These monks had brilliant wisdom and well understanding in the physiology. They used and adapted the knowledge to the physics, such as momentum, inertia, central gravity, weight transferring, and friction. They combined all of these with the limitation of human body in order to create the martial arts and defending oneself from others.

B.C. 230, there were many Jiu-jitsu schools establishing in Japan. Bare-hand fighting was considered a part of Samurai warriors’ practicing as it was used to conquer the armed and armored opponents in the war.

In the Meji period, Japan was open to receive other countries’ culture, and there were many foreigners coming in. This made the Jiu-jitsu afraid that huge foreigners would know the secrets of Jiu-jitsu. They then broke it into many martial arts in order to limit its potential performance.

Karate, Judo, and Aikido were developed from Jiu-jitsu. These arts were adapted into the sports to reduce their power and performance.

Development

For more than a century, the original Jiu-jitsu was developed into well-known Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. The following people took parts in the Brazilian Jiu-jitsu development.

- Jigoro Kano, Jiu-jitsu instructor

He discovered that the original one could not fully be performed because of its danger such as eye piercing, groin kicking, and hair tearing that might hurt the practicing partners. Therefore, the instruction in Kano’s school was Randori, which was a real practice tending to fight to their fullest power. This would get the students used to the opponent’s violation. This kind of practice would help students improve their bodies, minds, and agility much better. In order to make the Randori’s performance better, Kano had to take some dangerous actions off, such as head butting. This kind of practicing is called “Judo”.

- Mitsuyo Maeda, one of the Kano’s great students

He had been trained for the original Jiu-jitsu before he learned from Kano when he was 18 years old. At that time, Kano wanted to distribute his Judo to other countries to be a part of the Olympic game. He sent many of his distributors to many parts of United States, and Maeda was one of them.

During his journey, he had to fight with many huge fighters, and that made him feel that Kano had taken too many important parts off, and it decreased its real performance. Maeda then decided to add his own techniques to the original Jiu-jitsu and took the parts he believed they did not work off. He combined the arts into the Mixed Martial Arts. This kind of fight is about low kicking and elbowing in order to throw the opponent away, and then focus on the ground-based fighting by locking the opponents up until they surrender.

In 1914, he stopped his journey at Brazil and decided to help Japanese government expand the country’s relationship. He taught Carlos Gracie Jiu-jitsu.

- Carlos Gracie

He was a boxer who was crazy about street fighting. He adapted Maeda Jiu-jitsu into his own style, and that made him popular because he had never been beaten although he was very small. He then taught his Jiu-jitsu to his brother, Helio.

- Royce Gracie

In 1993, Ultimate Fighting Championship was published to all over the world for the first time, and Royce was one of the 12 fighters in this tournament. His small body made a lot of people believe that he would be knocked out within 3 minutes. However, he proved that all people were wrong by conquered the opponents and was the champion of the tournament. In the next year, he proved himself again that it was not a fluke. Whenever he was interviewed, he always said “It’s not because of me, but it’s because of Jiu-jitsu”.

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