![]() ![]() I wonder if Kosei Maeda introduced something he made up and called jiu-jitsu, or if it had originality as a result of the improvements made by Mr. Nishi: It doesn’t seem that judo itself was completely introduced to you. Helio: (nodding to what Rorion said) They didn’t teach the Americans the mind of the samurai. In that sense, we were lucky to have been able to come in contact directly with jiu-jitsu first, rather than judo. When Japan lost in the World War II and America was occupying Japan, they taught the Americans judo, but not jiu-jitsu. But I think maybe the original art is jiu-jitsu. ![]() Rorion: I have a strong impression about judo that judo is a sport where the objective is to throw the opponent to the ground using power. Nishi: When judo came into Brazil, didn’t you think it was similar to jiu-jitsu? So I think he taught us their traditional jiu-jitsu in return for it. I heard that they often helped Japanese people in many ways. At that time (the time when jiu-jitsu was brought by Konde Koma), there were many Japanese immigrants and local people had a friendly relationship with them. We didn’t even know the word of judo itself until it came into Brazil. Helio: I heard that Konde Koma called it jiu-jitsu. Maeda call it jiu-jitsu, not judo from the beginning? (However, Kodokan removed his name from the register in the later years.) But why did he call it jiu-jitsu, not judo in Brazil? Nishi has secretly thought that jiu-jitsu introduced to Brazil might be something like a variant form of judo. Kosei Maeda known by the name of Konde Koma was a judo-ka who got out of Japan to spread Kodokan Judo to the world in Meiji period, and performed an open fight with a different style in each country. Nishi: Striking was also included, wasn’t it? But Konde Koma was always fighting in real fights, so a lot of tricks to win in a real fight were incorporated in his teaching. Most techniques were something mainly based on power. ![]() Carlos learned from Kosei Maeda centering on “kata”? Nishi: That has become the base of Gracie jiu-jitsu of the day, hasn’t it? Was a style Mr. In this interview conducted in 1994 just after the UFC 3, but which was published for the first time on in Japan, Helio Gracie confirms that Maeda was not teaching his brother Carlos Gracie, Judo, but Jiu-Jitsu: What Maeda had taught to the Gracies was in fact Jiu-Jitsu ground work, Judo throws (which came from classical Jiu-Jitsu), some catch wrestling he had learned in England, as well as Maeda’s own strategies for defeating strikers. There is a common misconception that Gracie/Brazilian jiu-jitsu was formed from Kodokan Judo ground fighting (newaza) fundamentals that were taught by a number of individuals including Takeo Yano, Mitsuyo Maeda and Soshihiro Satake. How it would have changed history if he had stayed and developed American students! Would what we train now have been called American Jiu-Jitsu? Maeda felt that America was unsuited to live because of the racism towards Asians. Jigoro Kano had originally sent Maeda to America as a delegate of Kodokan Judo, and Maeda had fought challenge matches in 1904 on the East coast. ![]()
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