MODERN JU-JUTSU
Japanese society remained the same for nearly 300 years under a military dictatorship. At the end of the 19th century it began to open up under pressure from diplomats, merchants, and other representatives from western countries (especially US and English officers) when the Shogunate ended. Consequently, Ju-Jutsu came to be used in many countries' military and law enforcement training, and Japanese Ju-Jutsu masters visited the USA and Europe even before the turn of the twentieth century. During this time, some of them began traveling and exhibiting their skills and techniques (what people at that time called "tricks"). In these exhibitions they would sometimes compete with well-known wrestlers and other fighters -- often much larger than they were -- and win.
Over time the Samurai's martial arts became a modern sport (called Budo meaning Martial Ways) with World Championships in different disciplines. Judo eventually became an event in the Olympic games (1964). In the USA, different Ju-Jutsu schools developed from people who had been in Japan, as well as Japanese instructors visiting the U.S. Americans began practicing traditional Ju-Jutsu techniques, but soon other new styles started to develop which accommodated modern thinking and laws.
Ju-Jutsu started to grow and be recognized around 1930 in the USA, but later, from 1965 and onward, other martial arts like Karate, Chinese Kung-Fu (Wushu), and later on Korean Tae-Kwon-Do became much more well known and grew faster. These martial arts became popular because of public exposure to different Kung-Fu and Karate movies, but even Bruce Lee was studying and practicing for a living with Ju-Jutsu legend Professor Wally Jay before he developed his own style, Jeet Kune Do, which has many similarities to Ju-Jutsu.
Ju-Jutsu is today a World Game Sport. Ju-Jutsu is an excellent form of exercise, especially when considering the importance of maintaining or increasing one's flexibility, endurance, and strength. If you ever need to defend yourself you need to be in good shape, so I would recommend practicing at least two times a week. Ju-Jutsu is also good practice for children. It builds up self-confidence, coordination, and it teaches them respect, discipline and other social benefits.
Ju-Jutsu is an event at the World and Olympics Games
PRACTICING JU-JUTSU TODAY
Ju-Jutsu is a fighting and self-defense system for everyone regardless of one's physical condition. Because Ju-Jutsu is applicable to all persons, women and men of all ages and sizes, it places priority on practicing self-defense without competition rules and limitations, while emphasizing adhering to the particular laws and decrees that exist in one's respective country. Ju-Jutsu parts from most of the other martial arts styles. It is not a "Do"-form (Do means "way" e.g. Judo means "the soft way" and Aikido means "the way of universal power") or a form to be trained for competition only. Ju-Jutsu is a fighting and self-defense system!
I think the strength of Ju-Jutsu is that you can learn and choose techniques to use without restraint. You can always find some new angles and moves from the best of the different martial arts styles in the search for a more effective way to make a good system. This is what I did when I constructed and incorporated many different techniques to make a great system, described in two books Seiei Kan Ju-Jutsu, Volumes I and II (Seiei Kan means picking from the best).
SEIEI KAN JU-JUTSU
Ju-Jutsu is the ultimate self-defense, for men, women and children. It covers the entire spectrum of different realistic types of attacks, and you learn to use kicks, punches, knees, elbows, throws, take-downs, joint-locks, ground-fighting and more in order to protect yourself. Many Ju-Jutsu styles and organizations, both national and international, have integrated competition as an opportunity for those who wish to test their skills.
Seiei Kan Ju-Jutsu includes over 300 techniques are described in 2 books. It contains escapes from numerous attacks, "Karate and Judo Techniques", takedowns, joint-locks, ground wrestling, and much more. It's a lot of fun and affordable. Ju-Jutsu is an excellent form of exercise and it will help you increase and maintain your flexibility, endurance, and strength. Also it builds up your self-confidence and coordination. It is also a sport, with competitions, seminars, and training camps, national and international.
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