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Ju-Jitsu:
Exposure of all Methods of Self-Defence
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is an older booklet from Australia: "Ju-Jitsu:
Exposure of all Methods of Self-Defence.
Police and Japanese secrets of attack and
defence".
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It
says that the booklet is written by one
Higami Kasatu, but there are no information
given about the man anywhere inside.
Neither are there given a year of printing.
Should one judge by the look on the people
in the photographs, then I'd say it is probably
from the 1920s. The booklet is a total of
22 pages, most of this is text.
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It
is hard to tell where these methods and
techniques are from. Some ot the things
are presented by Japanese exponents dressed
in the uniform of the day. The pictures
here are almost identical to the ones you'll
find in:
The
Complete Kano Jiu-Jitsu (Judo), by H. Irving Hancock and Katsukuma Higashi. There
are some tiny differences, but the suites
being used are identical, and the persons
demonstrating seems to be the same.
There are no doubt then that these techniques
are Kano Jiu-Jitsu.
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There
are also some techniques where a gentleman
dressed in what seems to be a police uniform
defends against a gun-wielding attacker.
The pictures look like that they have
ceen cropped to hide the defender.
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Maybe
this booklet has been assembled from other
available sources at the time? At least
the stuff doesn't quite blend together,
that's for sure. And true to form there
are some quite bold statements being made: "Comprising among the chapters
every known useful trick and chip of self-defence
hithereto kept secret by experts, now exposed
for the first time within."
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There
are some interesting moments here, but nothing
to write home about really. This statement
was the best part that I could find: "(...) In
such encounters keep your head; your temper
belongs to you - keep it!" |
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In
other words, not much if you want to practise ju
jitsu. A nice little booklet all the same,
if only for the historical parts. Now, if
someone could inform me who this Higami Kasatu was... |
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ISBN nr.:
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Forfatter:
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Higami
Kasatu
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Utgitt:
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Sydney,
Australia, ?
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Forlag:
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Briton
Publications Pty. Ltd.
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