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Originally Posted by shinobijesus
not if you manage to find a great sensei that wants to pass on Judo the way Jigoro Kano wanted it rather than the way Olympic judges want it.  |
This is an off topic, but a nice one: It was Kano sensei who transformed the old jujitsu into an sport called "judo". Judo was created in 1882 as a sport. What happened after it was just the evolution of the sport he created.
You can see remnants of the history in the name of BJJ: Brazilian jujitsu is actually an offspring of Kano sensei's judo: it is an style of judo that keeps the old name "jujitsu" because Maeda sensei, judoka and kodokan member, arrived in Brazil in 1914, when the name "judo" was not widely accepted. Instead, many people used to called it "Kano Ju jitsu" or just "jujitsu". That is what happened in Brazil: they called it "jujitsu" and they have kept that name since. So technically speaking, BJJ is not koryu jujitsu.