History of the Jiu-Jitsu: Muzio De Angelis Jiu-Jitsu

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HISTORY OF THE JIU-JITSU
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Jiu-Jitsu came out over 2.500 years in India with Buddhists monks that, because of their religiosity, did not use weapons to fight and developed a personal defense technique based in a deep knowledge of the human body.

Being spread, the fight reached Japan where it was enhanced and taught to the noble samurais. Other fights came out from the Jiu-Jitsu such as Sumo, Karate, Kempo and Judo.

When Japanese ports were open to the Occident, the government classified the teaching of Jiu-Jitsu to the western as a national crime, and being so, a tender way of Jiu-Jitsu classified as judo was taught, so the Japanese supremacy would not be put in stake.

Around 1917, the Japanese Jiu-Jitsu champion Mitsuo Maeda, known as Count Koma, arrived in Brazil.

Mitsuo Maeda started teaching the true Jiu-Jitsu to Carlos Gracie who, together with his brothers, developed new techniques of the fight and spreaded it throughout Brazil, showing the supremacy of the Jiu-Jitsu over other fights.

In Jiu-Jitsu the proposal is invincibility and being so, the fight only finishes when one of the fighters knocks his hands in the tatame, as a signal of surrender.

Jiu-Jitsu is not a violent sport and its basic philosophy is really the defense.

Many challenges succeeded but, with its continuous technical development, Jiu-Jitsu started to be seen as an academic and competitive fight, with emphasis in the sportive part.