The Budokwai Jiu-Jitsu Film Recorded in 1949

Another great video showing the history of Jiu-Jitsu from the Kodokan. Dr. Kanō Jigorō should be recognized and honored for his life's work!

[@Mr.Cockney]

This video is definitely gold. I wish I could have seen it when I was younger!

[@tuanmichigan]

BJJ is just Judo with higher tuition fees. Where I live, Judo is 20 USD/month, BJJ is 200.

[@TheSADHU88]

In my opinion, I never trained judo, just did a few throws with friends.However I did BJJ for a few months, I find judo much more useful, especially for self defense. Judo of course is the original art BJJ just an off shoot

[@marcuspiscaer4120]

True, but judo took a lot of the groundwork from Tenjin Shinyo Ryu (Koizumi's main education) and Tanabe/Kataoka's Fusen ryu and Tachenouchi ryu. Koizumi was a teaching assistant to Raku who was a master of this style and not Judo. Kano- the founder of Judo- hated groundwork and was forced to bring some of it into Judo when Tanabe beat his best guys. In the 20s Kano changed the rules to modern Judo and banned a lot of the things we see here. The Gracies preserved it the pre 1920s style, and had they switched to Judo, BJJ would be modern Judo.

[@MegaHitman666]

You are very ignorant about the history and base of BJJ . Go do your combat slort judo , then show up in BJJ school days they are moping their floors so your Judo will be useful to something . 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Ivuspp]

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu looks just like Judo, because it is Basically Just Judo. When Mitsuyo Maeda, a.k.a. "Conde Koma", began teaching Carlos Gracie in Belem do Para, Brazil in 1917, he was teaching Jigoro Kano's Jiu-Jitsu direct from the Kodokan in Japan. The name "Judo" was not popularized until 1925. Mitsuyo Maeda was a Kodokan Judo instructor whose specialty was ground fighting (newaza). This type of ground-only fighting is often referred to as Kosen Judo, or High School Judo, because it was popularized in Japanese High Schools as a form of interscholastic wrestling. Kosen Judo rules allowed direct transition to newaza, enabling scenarios where one less skilled competitor could drag the other down to the ground (a tactic now known as "pulling-guard" in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu). There is absolutely no question that the Gracie family demonstrated great skill and marketing acumen by promoting "Gracie Jiu-Jitsu" or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to the masses. Helio Gracie's loss to Kodokan Judoka Masahiko Kimura was advertised as a "moral victory". More importantly, the Gracies sponsored the original Ultimate Fighting Championships when the world was begging for a professional combat sport with more depth than Boxing and more realism than the WWF. However, there is now a generation of Jiu-Jitsu students who only know half the story. Worse yet, they are often paying enormous prices for the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu name only to learn a subset of Jigoro Kano's original Jiu-Jitsu techniques and teaching methods. The Judo world has not been without fault too. High ranking judoka often looked down on the new popular MMA world due to Judo's Olympic status. As a result, most Judo schools have been over-emphasizing the throwing techniques within Judo due to pressure from the International Olympic Comittee to increase ratings on TV for the brief moments when Olympic Judo would receive air time. Similarly, there is a generation of Jiu-Jitsu students, and now instructors, who incorrectly think Judo is nothing but a standing sport.

[@QuantumPyrite_88.9]

It's a shame what bjj did to the actual old styles and methods .

[@PauloSilvaX]

​@@QuantumPyrite_88.9made them work?😅😅😅

[@danle3181]

@@PauloSilvaX dumb comment

[@PauloSilvaX]

@@danle3181 and isn't it true?

[@PauloSilvaX]

@@danle3181 "styles"... it was a more thought out style rather than a tested one, and it became a free style, each competitor creates their own and is selected in a NATURAL SELECTION. "Methods" It was self defense method, through 100% combined and choreographed drills...it became 90% sparring, and with the culture of testing oneself with other arts... they were "secret" training only for elderly students who had been training for 50 years, It became for young people in their physical prime...It was a fight not to fight, it became a fight to fight... BJJ change THE ENTIRE WORLD ... NO ART WAS THE SAME after BJJ... ALL OF THEM CHANGED... BJJ is an art that not only influenced his own circle of practitioners, but even the perception of what works or not works has changed of how an art should be trained, 90% of what they thought GOOD STUFF, if it started to be perceived as TRASH... "BJJ is a shame" Shame was believe in Hollywood...having destroyed arts such as Catch and Judo, and not having done in 100 years what BJJ did in the 30s.

[@s1r155]

This is old school Judo but you can clearly see the link to the original Gracie Jiu Jitsu. The use of the guard, the mount and even knee on belly which they called uki gatame. You don't see these techniques to the same extent in modern Judo. Even some of the self defence techniques from the kime no kata can still be seen in the Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defence syllabus. Fascinating video, thanks for sharing.

[@joelarmour]

Jigoro Kano is who they are talking about. The creator of Judo. First called Jiu-jitsu

[@jaymorris3468]

Its traditional Judo and Judo kata pure and simple, people need to know what theyre talking about, , I still do face breakfalls as part of my warm up, the Budokwai is a Judo institution, a British Kodokan if you like, Sport Judo as you see today doesnt allow anything but throws and groundwork, there is more to Judo than what you see on the tatami today.I reiterate, all of this is Judo, born from "jujitsu", BJJ comes from Judo newaza.

[@BB-mv9wl]

Saving this one. Brilliant video.

[@curtrod]

yep

[@Shadowrulzalways]

This is old school Judo.

[@drutgat2]

That was fantastic. Many thanks for posting it.

[@dmtjnani9951]

Too cool. Shows me how much I have learned. Aum & Oss

[@ML-lx4su]

The commentary sounds like a wildlife documentary, or maybe a golf tournament. :D

[@coyotekilla3684]

👍

[@x-Musashi-x]

First photo is Gigasashi Chadamoto

[@mironabetiu]

Exact asa!❤

[@wayne47able]

At the time of Judos conception, it was called Kano-Jiu Jitsu. So this is Jiu Jitsu. Judo is another form of Jiu Jitsu

[@danle3181]

If you think like this, it would be correct to think that bjj is another form of judo. It is not, it became something else. Same goes for judo regarding jujutsu. Judo came from jujutsu, bjj came from judo. It doesn't mean they are the same.

[@wayne47able]

@@danle3181 I agree with you

[@danle3181]

@@wayne47able Cool ;) Btw, this is 1949 at the Budokwai (England) so it is judo. That's where Roger Gracie was learning judo lately.

[@ilVecchioKoala]

Thanks for uploading this, I finally get to see the "daisharin" technique shown in Sacripanti's book. It looks like Koizumi was into Tenshin shin'yo ryu when he founded the Budokwai, and then converted to Kodokan judo a couple of years later. This would explain why the kata show here look very different, as he probably still didn't know about the official forms in detail.

[@SpiralBJJ]

Thank you for this upload, I've only seen clips of this footage.

[@lovetoka]

Neither Judo nor BJJ ... this is pure traditional Japanese Jiu-jitsu, father martial art of Judo,BJJ, ,AIIKIDO ..etc.. thanks for uploading this old gold.

[@mongolchiuud8931]

if this is pure jujutsu then why do the whole video kept saying Judo?......=X Also Jujutsu is not a style or system its the Japanese term for wrestling/grappling....Kito RYu,FUsen RYu,Sekiguchi Ryu blah blah blah are the names of the styles and systems.....people keep thinking "Jujutsu" was one system or style...its not.

[@Ivuspp]

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu looks just like Judo, because it is Basically Just Judo. When Mitsuyo Maeda, a.k.a. "Conde Koma", began teaching Carlos Gracie in Belem do Para, Brazil in 1917, he was teaching Jigoro Kano's Jiu-Jitsu direct from the Kodokan in Japan. The name "Judo" was not popularized until 1925. Mitsuyo Maeda was a Kodokan Judo instructor whose specialty was ground fighting (newaza). This type of ground-only fighting is often referred to as Kosen Judo, or High School Judo, because it was popularized in Japanese High Schools as a form of interscholastic wrestling. Kosen Judo rules allowed direct transition to newaza, enabling scenarios where one less skilled competitor could drag the other down to the ground (a tactic now known as "pulling-guard" in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu). There is absolutely no question that the Gracie family demonstrated great skill and marketing acumen by promoting "Gracie Jiu-Jitsu" or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to the masses. Helio Gracie's loss to Kodokan Judoka Masahiko Kimura was advertised as a "moral victory". More importantly, the Gracies sponsored the original Ultimate Fighting Championships when the world was begging for a professional combat sport with more depth than Boxing and more realism than the WWF. However, there is now a generation of Jiu-Jitsu students who only know half the story. Worse yet, they are often paying enormous prices for the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu name only to learn a subset of Jigoro Kano's original Jiu-Jitsu techniques and teaching methods. The Judo world has not been without fault too. High ranking judoka often looked down on the new popular MMA world due to Judo's Olympic status. As a result, most Judo schools have been over-emphasizing the throwing techniques within Judo due to pressure from the International Olympic Comittee to increase ratings on TV for the brief moments when Olympic Judo would receive air time. Similarly, there is a generation of Jiu-Jitsu students, and now instructors, who incorrectly think Judo is nothing but a standing sport.

[@jjs3890]

This is Judo. Jujutsu throws are similar but with most styles, the throws were designed to break or dislocate something and not allow a proper break fall dropping them on their face or head. But there were many systems with different methods...

[@danle3181]

This is pure judo. You obviously don't know what you are talking about. 1949 at the Budokwai. The exact same place Roger Gracie was studying JUDO lately...

[@danle3181]

@@mongolchiuud8931 It's the Budokwai judo school ;)

[@RavageEffex]

This is the style that the one and only gracie hunter used to use

[@chubs108]

Pre-WW2 Judo.

[@user-jp3pz4ld3r]

Very nice upload, thanks from Holland.

[@richardluntz6169]

A hour worth watching-thank u for posting it-Ari of don,t be a victim.

[@alvinhewitt2139]

Why are people fighting over names and styles!? Only rookies do that! It's All Martial Arts ❤

[@smiley-qb3nt]

I just saw Helio Gracie favorite guard pass . Brazilian my ass lol

[@nstv23]

It’s jiu jitsu only Americans ( like they own the American continent lol) started calling it bjj in the US because of the Gracie patent. In Brazil was always called jiu jitsu still to this day. So what do Helio Gracie and Americans have in common? hahaha 😂

[@gerardhart9052]

I dont advise letting your legs cross during breakfalls if you can possibly avoid it, it can be hard on the nuts sometimes.

[@ChikaraKarateWarrior]

This is JUDO bro not BJJ! Classical JuJutsu is different!!

[@nicholasoneal1521]

No one ever said it was BJJ

[@AlexandrePortoValle]

100% Judo video

[@prasantadebnath1827]

Yes ❤❤👉this is 💯% judo.... Right

[@queenbee125]

It’s amazing how people can’t just enjoy this video without being political. Why can’t it be judo and jiu jitsu?

[@LineageBJJ]

Agreed! Doesn't matter what it's called. Beautiful technique and should be enjoyed and appreciated for that.

[@PeterHartog]

Same with catch as catch can in my opinion. Its all grappling

[@curtrod]

correct

[@tadeuneves5729]

This is Judo.

[@ezequielhernandez7410]

En japonés no es jiu-jitsus… es Ju-jutsu el tema es saber de que Ryu se trata

[@binhomosta4593]

Good time watching this old school judo show. Where judo finishes jiu jitsu rises.

[@oneguy7202]

Bjj came but judo decided his self while bjj mix it and evolve it self,dont forget that bjj have catch wrestling moves and today is the most hybrid ground grappling art also a lot thing reinvent in bjj and evolve like berimbolo,de lariva,spindler etc.

[@satriagemilang9]

😘😘😘👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💪💪💪

[@gerardhart9052]

Its all jui jitsu and none of is. The river you pass in the morning is not the same river you pass in the afternoon. Change how you practice or change the rules and you get something different.

[@axcelblack2808]

This is Judo, its not Jiu Jitsu

[@MegaHitman666]

This jujitsu has nothing to do with BJJ.

[@eliotquintana9802]

Bjj judo to practice

[@carlcarson7604]

Calling Judo or Jiujitsu doesn't matter, but don't add Brazilian to it. There is nothing Brazilian about it... Just because a bunch of Brazilian use it to beat up people doesn't make it Brazilian.

[@artesuavebjj1642]

Jujutsu no jiu-jitsu. Jiu-jitsu é dos cariocas kkk

[@Clubkaratecombat]

Questo nn è jiu- jistu ma judo