Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1722363 in Books
• Published on: 1950-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 500 pages

Customer Reviews

History Alive
Actually this is a historical tome of some note. Interesting but very hard to learn from. The point of this book is to show training as it was when Judo was first developed. Every JuJutsuist and Judoka should have this in his/her library.
Worth the price and the time.

The roots of modern Jujutsu
Many people know Kano created Judo, but few know of his contribution
to Jujutsu.

The roots of modern Jujutsu began at the end of the 19th Century
when Kano Jigoro was given the task of taking the old, separate schools
of Jujutsu, taking the best of what was, and creating a hand=to-hand
combat school befitting the new, modernised Japan. This new art,
Kano Jujutsu was adopted rapidly by schools and military, as well as
progressing overseas, gaining practitioners and advocates such as Theodore
Roosevelt. Kano Jujutsu still survives in martial arts schools, albeit in
very few, and as hand-to-hand combat in many modern militaries.

The Complete Kano Jujutsu is a reprint of the classic text, demonstrating
many techniques, as well as an introduction to Kuatsu (healing and first
aid techniques).

This is not a book for beginners, as requires knowledge of techniques,
but serves well to augment training. A must have for people want to
delve deeper into martial arts.

Interesting, but not judo
This book has nothing to do with Jigoro Kano's Kodokan judo. By the time this book was published most of Kano's Judo as it is now known was all ready in existence including the Nage no Kata, Ju no Kata, Kime no Kata, and most of the Gokyo no Waza. The book Judo Kyohon published only 2 years later in Japan in 1908 detailed the Gokyo no Waza and Nage no Kata in their entirety and every technique therein is recognizable in name and form when compared to modern judo. Irving Hancock was a shameless huckster who had some instruction in an older form of jiu-jitsu completely unrelated to Kano's Kodokan Judo. He detailed this form in an earlier book entitled Jiu-Jitsu Combat Tricks published in 1904. He falsely labeled this later book The Complete Kano Jiu-Jitsu as a marketing ploy to try and trick buyer's into thinking they were getting something of Kano's judo, which by that date had gained total dominance in Japan. Very few of his techniques bare any resemblance to Kano's Judo as it was practiced then or now. This book is an interesting look at old style jiu-jitsu and worth buying, but Hancock's claim that it ever had anything to do with Kano's school is totally false.