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For example the BJJ (brazilian jiu jitsu) has had a long route, no one knows exactly, but guessing is from 1400 and India, there was this form of wrestling, very real, that somehow travelled into Japan, where the Samurais would adopt it to their own and modify it a little but not too much, for the fighting without the sword. So you know it's not a joke, because the idea was to kill with samurais, not to fight in the ring.
From there, this Japanese dude who moved into Brazil in the early 1900s would teach it to some brazilian dude who helped him to organize a japanese ... quarters (for the lack of a better word) in brazil, so in return he taught that brazilian dude that. It was little stripped version, because of the obvious killing purposes of samurais. But still very real. Then it was passed on to some other people within the family (this would be the Gracie family by the way), and there was some good street fighters in there, who would adopt it to their style of street fighting in Brazil. And from there on it was known as BJJ, and later on .. the rest is history.
This japanese dude, by the way, wanted to turn JJ into more of a sport, so they could do it in the olympics and what not. They stripped down lots of techniques and stuff, and formed a new one, called Judo.
But the roots are in India for these, and hundreds of years ago, from some type of wrestling they did. That's all I know, I would love to know more about what they did in India, what part the fighters played in their society etc.
From there, this Japanese dude who moved into Brazil in the early 1900s would teach it to some brazilian dude who helped him to organize a japanese ... quarters (for the lack of a better word) in brazil, so in return he taught that brazilian dude that. It was little stripped version, because of the obvious killing purposes of samurais. But still very real. Then it was passed on to some other people within the family (this would be the Gracie family by the way), and there was some good street fighters in there, who would adopt it to their style of street fighting in Brazil. And from there on it was known as BJJ, and later on .. the rest is history.
This japanese dude, by the way, wanted to turn JJ into more of a sport, so they could do it in the olympics and what not. They stripped down lots of techniques and stuff, and formed a new one, called Judo.
But the roots are in India for these, and hundreds of years ago, from some type of wrestling they did. That's all I know, I would love to know more about what they did in India, what part the fighters played in their society etc.
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. PS! I do have a gas mask at home
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