Create Something Great After 4 Vuotta
Yleinen myytti taistelulajeissa on, että mestari tutkimukset 40 vuotta, kehittää lähes yli-inhimillinen ymmärrys itsepuolustus, luo täydellinen järjestelmä ja osoittautuu sukupolvien lyömätön taistelijoita. Ennen suosio Mixed Martial Arts, many of the magazines such as Black Belt were full of stories about which martial art was the best.
If you polled most martial artist today and ask them if a martial artist could create a great system after four years, I would bet that over 90 percent would say, “No.” However, we have two notable examples of great martial arts systems being created by relative novices.
Dr. Jigoro Kano and his student Kyuzo Mifune practicing Judo from the Public Domain
Jigoro Kano began his study of Ju-Jitsu at age 18 sisään 1878. He earned a teaching certificate in two styles by age 22 sisään 1882. He then created his own style of Ju-Jitsu that he renamed Judo.
Kano’s style was not readily accepted and several masters made disparaging remarks about his style. Kuitenkin, sisään 1889, his students took on some of the best Ju-Jitsu students at the Tokyo Police Tournament. Kano’s students won 10 matches and drew one match. His system was not questioned any longer.
In the late 1910s, one of Dr. Kano’s students, Mitsuyo Maeda, went to Brazil to establish a Japanese emigrant community in Belem, Brazil. Gastao Gracie, a local politician, helped him get established. In gratitude, Maeda took Gracie’s oldest son, Carlos Gracie, as a student.
Carlos Gracie from the Public Domain
Carlos’ story may be even more impressive. According to several sources, Carlos only studied with Maeda for two to three years. He may have been a blue belt, which was a junior rank Yet, he taught his brothers including the man considered to have been one of the greatest innovators, Helio Gracie, what he learned and they created a style, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, that has taken the world by storm.
The key to both of these gentlemen’s success was that they made their art stand up. They taught effective self-defense to their students, who also became excellent competitors. They were also dedicated to making their art the best it could be.
For every Carlos Gracie and Jigoro Kano, there is a 1st or 2nd degree Black Belt, who has created their own style and named themselves 9th degree as founder of the art. You don’t hear about them after a few years because their art does not stand the test of time. That is the test of whether it is great or not.
