| Most American Jujitsu practitioners don't know that Jujitsu came to America in 1900, brought by a caucasian. Most Americans dont know that Jujitsu played a major role in the development of Military Combatives, politics, the women's sufferage movement, sports, physical fitness and personal self defense. Many people assume this martial art became popular in the 1950's when other Asian martial arts came to America after the Second World War. But the popular martial art of Jujitsu was well known in the U.S. by 1902. John O'Brien, a student of Tanaka Sensei and Inouye Sensei of Nagasaki Japan, first brought Jujitsu to America in 1900. Find out facinating information about his training and his life, which the author has obtained from several sources, including a personal relationship with his blackbelt grandson. Read exciting accounts of Jujitsu matches against wrestling and boxing, 80 or more years before the UFC. Find out how Jujitsu became the foundation of U.S. Military Combatives beginning in WWI. Read how a Japanese immigrant farmer learned Jujitsu from an old Jujitsu master and created a system that is the most widely practiced Jujitsu system in the World. Learn how this man defied his own culture in order to teach American soldiers and women alike. Pioneers of American Jujitsu will take you through 40 years of American history, and the development of Jujitsu in the U.S. and introduce you to many of the earliest American practitioners of the art. Learn of their struggles and successes which were the predecessors of America's martial art culture. Get your copy - autographed by the Author (a 6th dan Jujitsu blackbelt) today! $15.00 (+S/H) |
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| PIONEERS OF AMERICAN JUJITSU by Sensei St. Hilaire - 6thDan |
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