Judo Jūdō, じゅうどう means "the way of gentleness" in Japanese. It’s the “gentle way.” Judo is partly derived from an ancient Japanese samurai fighting technique with bare hands: jujitsu. Judo, which wins by throwing an opponent to the ground, is the only Olympic sport that allows the use of chokeholds or joint twisting to subdue an opponent. Judo is a highly confrontational competitive sport that emphasizes the proficiency of players' mastery of skills rather than the comparison of strength. In 1951, Japan, Britain and France initiated the establishment of the International Judo Federation, and the first World Judo Championships was held in Tokyo in 1956. In 1973, the judo project was officially included in my country's competition projects. Judo is a fighting art that focuses on wrestling and ground techniques. The following is what I compiled specifically for you:.
Starting: The Original Road
When talking about the origin of Judo itself, we must mention the tradition of martial arts fighting for many centuries. This kind of fighting was different from Jujitsu in the Middle Ages in Japan. Formed and developed within the school.
Although the facts seem to be very clear, there is still debate as to whether the self-defense tradition originated purely in Japan or whether it was introduced to Japan from abroad. This topic is very delicate because it involves Japanese patriotism.
Regarding the history of the emergence of Jiu-Jitsu, there are actually three different versions. The first version claims that the hometown of jujitsu is in China, and that its introduction to Japan, an island country with blooming cherry blossoms, is related to a monk named Chen Yuanyun who traveled eastward. Due to his involvement in assassination during the Ming Dynasty, he left China and found refuge in a temple in Edo, Japan. He lives in poverty, far away from the world and hustle and bustle. He taught Chinese calligraphy and philosophy to the children of countless dignitaries, and translated Chinese classical literature. Occasionally he would travel and paint many volumes of landscape paintings, but most importantly, he taught many Japanese samurai how to master fighting skills, thus making jujitsu widely popular in Japan.
The second version is related to the name of Hisamori Takenouchi. According to legend, the man dreamed of a reclusive monk who, one day, came down from the mountain and secretly taught him the techniques of sprinting and painful movements. This version proves the claim that Jiu-Jitsu originated purely in Japan. ?
Finally, the well-known story is the story of Dr. Akiyama Shiro. In the winter he often walked in the garden, admiring the cherry branches, also known as cedar branches, which slept particularly peacefully in anticipation of the coming spring, with their hats of white snow on their heads. Once, Akiyama discovered that the heavy branches could not bear the weight of the heavy snow and almost all broke. Although the young and soft branches drooped and drooped to the ground, they did not break. After the snow slipped off the branches, the branches were intact and recovered again. Akiyama fell into deep thought after seeing it, and then he suddenly shouted: "The initial submission is to win in the future!" His words belong to combat sports. Based on this, he worked hard and finally created the fighting technique. After studying the hand-to-hand fighting techniques of Kogu Tatsuki, which were widely popular in Japan at the time, in order to expand his knowledge, he went to China, where he learned some local fighting techniques such as restraints and Tai Chi pushing techniques. After systematizing these techniques, together with his disciples and like-minded individuals, he presented thousands of movements to the Emperor's Special Commission, which formed the basis of Jiu-Jitsu.
Karl Gagmann, a German jiu-jitsu researcher and famous cultural scholar, once pointed out in the 1920s. The knowledge base of Japanese Jiu-Jitsu fighting skills, like other fighting skills, originated in China. This further confirms that Japanese Jiu-Jitsu also reminds us that Karate comes from China, overturning what the Japanese say is "purely a national creation", and its purpose is just to use "independent intellectual property rights" to raise its level higher.
As a term that systematizes and summarizes the experience of shirtless fighting in the fighting field, Jiu-Jitsu appeared at the end of the 14th century. Japanese fighting arts was in a prosperous period under the Tokugawa shogunate for more than three hundred years, and there were nearly 700 jujitsu schools. ?
At the end of the 19th century, Japan began an amazing change. In 1868, with the support of radical reform supporters, Meiji became emperor, and the revolutionary Meiji Restoration began in all areas of society. The country's long period of isolation ended, and Zephyr began to seep into the daily lives of ordinary Japanese civilians.
A generation interested in new things and real things has appeared on the stage of history, and European drama and rugby have become symbols of this generation. The tradition of Bushido died, and under threat was the ancient art of fighting, for which the representatives of the Bushido clan had been the bearers.
The rapid popularization and promotion of Western cultural elements in Japanese society also played a certain role in the emergence of judo. This is a multi-faceted physical training system that combines the spirit and tradition of Bushido with the spirit of Olympic sports. Its founder is Jigoro Kano. He was born on October 28, 1860, in Mikage, a small city not far from Kyoto in Hyogo Prefecture. Kano's father's generation can be traced back to the origin of Japanese history. Among his ancestors are Shinto monks, Buddhist groups, and descendants of Confucius. His mother Sadako belongs to the most famous sake-producing family. There are two brothers and two sisters in the family. Jigoro is the youngest in the family. Since childhood, Jigoro has had a strong interest in studying humanities. Like most children in Japan, he embodies diligence and patience. When he turned 11, the family moved to Tokyo, and the future founder of judo continued his education at two schools. He studied very obscure Japanese calligraphy in one school and English in another. He began to receive contemporary education at the age of thirteen. At that time, his father recognized his son's talent very much and transferred him to a private school run by the British. In this school, young Ghana quickly became the first in the class. But the teacher who teaches physical education subjects does not like him, and his classmates look at him with disdain, looking down from above, because Kano was born weak and is a short man even according to Japanese standards.
In Japan at that time, Jiu-Jitsu was not fashionable and had no admirers. For young people from well-off families, this sport was not regarded as a very respectable sport, regardless of whether Neither my father nor my friends were in favor of finding a Jiu-Jitsu teacher. Jigoro has a very resolute character, and he is able to defend his beliefs no matter when he was a boy or later in college. According to current standards, Jigoro started to get into single fighting very late, because he was already 17 years old. But this only proves that fighting, like love, has no age distinction, and people of any age can fall in love.
During the search, the young man was drawn into the Tenjin Mayo school, which was founded in 1795 by Master Isoemon. Yagi Tanosuke taught the principles of technology to Kano. He was a far-sighted educator with a keen eye for talent, discovered the students' talents, gave him the advice he needed, and asked Principal Fukuda Yachinosuke to accept him as his apprentice. Fukuda Hachinosuke is very accomplished in Eastern medicine. In addition to being an expert in his own work, he also faithfully keeps the top secrets of ancient fighting and self-defense techniques. According to Kano's recollection, Fukuda Yachinosuke was a very kind-hearted person who was particularly fond of young disciples. Trainer Fukuda Yatsunosuke believes that kickboxing, that is, freestyle boxing method, is the main training method. The idea of ??jiu-jitsu technique training is that, after demonstrating this or that move, the student should master it in a training duel. Kano trained tenaciously and achieved great results. But the relationship with this old school did not last long. In 1879, Mr. Fukuda Yamanosuke passed away, but he gave all the manuscripts related to the school to Jigoro Kano.