Human Weapon {HQ] - Judo: Samurai Legacy part 1/5

October 31, 2009 by andrew  
Filed under YouTube Judo

The massively popular martial art of Judo is derived from Jujitsu (also referred to as Jujutsu or Jiu-jitsu), an ancient system of hand-to-hand combat practiced by highly skilled samurai and ninja warriors on the battlefields of feudal Japan. Beginning in the early 1880s, the Jujitsu fighter and instructor Jiguro Kano developed a new martial art based on Jujitsu techniques, with one organizing principle: to make the most efficient use of mental and physical energy. Kano called the system …

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