The ORIGIN
from China to Ju-jitsu

Inspired on stories and legends, the documental origin of the corporal combat is imprecise. The Prof. Carlos Catalano Calleja text, one of the greatest specialists of the Judo in Brazil, shows a little bit of the beginning of these combats hitory, that created Ju-jitsu.
The beginning of the historical development of the corporal combat gets lost in the night of the times. The fight, besides of necessity and survival, was born with the man and, to that respect, the documents ascend the mythological times.
A very old manuscript, the Takanogawi, tells that the gods Kashima and Kadori controled their vassals due to their attack and defense.
The Old Chronicle of Japan (Nihon Shoki), written by imperial order in the year of 720, mentions the existence of certain ability and dexterity techniques, not used in the corporal combats only, but also, as a complement of the physical, spiritual and mental force, telling a mythological history in which one of the competitors, holding his opponent firmly by the hand, threw him to the soil, as leaf.

According to some japanese historians, the oldest report of a corporal combat happened in 230, in emperor Suinin's presence. Taimano Kehaya, an insolent fighter was knocked-out quickly by a terrible cultor of the disarmed combat, Nomino Sukune.
On that time there were not rules or combats standards. The fights should go on till one of the competitors death.
The attack and defense techniques were very similar to the sumo and the old ju-jitsu ones.

Many are the conjectures on the historical development of the ju-jitsu, but there are hard indiciuns that they are mere suppositions inspired on legends or stories, that keep an intimate relationship with the appearence of certain academies.
One of them describes that, about 1650, a chinese monk, Chin Gen Pin, would have idealized terrible techniques denominated "tes", objecting to kill or to wound seriously one or more opponents, even disarmed.
Some years later, then living in Japan, he met three inferior samurais. The chinese monk taught them all the "tes" he knew. Amazed and wondering the results they could reach, the three japanese submited themselves to a long and hard training devoted to improve the chinese monk terrible art.
Some years later, the three japanese decided to separate and they left out through Japan, as professionals, to disclose the fabulous techniques. It is knowned they transmited the "chinese monk art", to many pupils. Those pupils, founded their own academies and developed a new fight style that would have been denominated ju-jitsu.
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