He left Japan in 1904 and visited several countries giving "jiu-do" demonstrations and accepting challenges from wrestlers, boxers, savate fighters, and various other martial artists, and arrived in Brazil on 14 November 1914. Mitsuyo Maeda, one of the Kodokan's top groundwork experts trained by Tomita Tsunejirō, the first student of judo's founder Kano Jigoro, was sent overseas to demonstrate and spread his art to the world.
BJJ can also be used as a method of promoting physical fitness, building character, and as a way of life. Sparring, commonly referred to as "rolling" within the BJJ community, and live drilling plays a major role in training and the practitioner's development. BJJ training can be used for sport grappling and self-defense situations. Later on, the Gracie family developed their own self-defense system, and published Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.īJJ eventually came to be its own defined combat sport through the innovations, practices, and adaptation of Gracie jiu-jitsu and Judo, and became an essential martial art for modern MMA.īJJ revolves around the concept that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend themselves against a bigger, stronger, heavier opponent by using leverage and weight distribution, taking the fight to the ground and using a number of holds and submissions to defeat them. BJJ approaches self-defense by emphasizing taking an opponent to the ground, gaining a dominant position, and using a number of techniques to force them into submission via joint locks or chokeholds.īrazilian jiu-jitsu was initially developed in 1925 by Brazilian brothers Carlos, Oswaldo, Gastão Jr., O’Brien, and Hélio Gracie, after Carlos was taught jiu-jitsu by a travelling Japanese judoka, Mitsuyo Maeda, in 1917. Kodokan Judo, Kosen Judo, Japanese Jujutsu, Wrestlingīrazilian jiu-jitsu ( BJJ Portuguese: jiu-jitsu brasileiro ) is a self-defence martial art and combat sport based on grappling, ground fighting, and submission holds. Senjuro Kataoka, Mataemon Tanabe, Geo Omori, Mitsuyo Maeda, Taro Miyake, Sadakazu Uyenishi, Yukio Tani, Takeo Yano, Soshihiro Satake, Tokugoro Ito, Jacintho Ferro, Donato Pires dos Reis, Hélio Gracie, Carlos Gracie, George Gracie, Oswaldo Gracie, Luiz França, Osvaldo Alves, Oswaldo Fadda Ground fighting, Submission Grappling, Grappling
Romulo Barral (bottom) with a Triangle Choke at the 2009 World Jiu-Jitsu ChampionshipīJJ, Gracie jiu-jitsu, gi/nogi jiu-jitsu, submission grappling
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