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Originally Posted by AE
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.
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i respect your viewpoint and im already aware of this information, but like all styles that have lost their founders to time i believe the original intent becomes more open to wider interpretation and i also believe Kano intended for it to be something more than "just a sport".
if you want to discuss this further you could PM me. or maybe we could just keep talking here to keep the thread on the front page so TRK will come back and let us know what he chose.
