Create Something Great After 4 Năm
Một truyền thuyết phổ biến trong võ thuật là một nghiên cứu tổng thể 40 năm, phát triển một sự hiểu biết gần như siêu nhân tự vệ, tạo ra hệ thống hoàn hảo và hóa ra thế hệ máy bay chiến đấu cạnh tranh nhất. Trước khi sự phổ biến của võ thuật, 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.
Tiến sĩ. Jigoro Kano and his student Kyuzo Mifune practicing Judo from the Public Domain
Jigoro Kano began his study of Ju-Jitsu at age 18 trong 1878. He earned a teaching certificate in two styles by age 22 trong 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. Tuy nhiên, trong 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.
