kwea.. I agree. Size is the most important thing.. along with upper body strength and the stomach for the fight. A boxer is gonna hurt you if you give him half a chance tho. They hit hard and fast. Most fights seem to start out as boxing and either end quickly or turn into wresling/judo , whatever you want to call it... Still... nothing beats using the landscape and everything around you to smash the opponent into... the softest floor is harder and more durable than my fist.
Yeah.. undeniable fact.
That's what martial arts have been trying to overcome for thousands of years
Judo and Aikido were both developed from Ju-Jitsu.
Ju-Jitsu can be traced back 2000 years and is referred to in Japan as the father martial art.
However, when Judo first came about in the late 1800s the founder of Judo (a Ju-Jitsu master) challenged a local Ju-Jitsu dojo to a tournament. The Judo students won pretty much every fight..........which is kinda ego deflating considering I studied Ju-Jitsu for 14 years and my best friends mother was a Judo black belt
In a fight without the rules a jiu-jitsu or aikido MASTER would beat the judo MASTER every time. Perhaps a controversial statement but...
To elaborate a bit..
The origins of jujitsu is not clear. It does not have a singular point of origin which can be traced like Karate or Tae Kwon Do. The first really historical mention of jujitsu appears in the account of Shiragi Saburo Minamoto Yoshimitsu and his martial arts which have been passed down between the 11th~12th century of Japan.
After that, the martial art of jujitsu disappears, or rather, becomes 'fragmented' and resurfaces in the form of secondary form of unarmed combat which the samurai must learn, in various sword dojos. There were literally hundreds of different schools of swordfighting in Japan, and all of those schools taught different versions of jujitsu. These sort of jujitsu came to be known as "go-ryu jujitsu", meaning "ancient jujitsu" - it's not a specific term of a certain school, but rather a term for the entire sect of jujitsu as a total.
And then, came the modern jujitsu.
In the 19th century, an optimized form of incredible jujitsu as never seen before resurfaced in Japan. The legendary master Takeda Sogaku, a decendant of the famous warlord Takeda Shingen of the 16th century, began touring Japan, teaching the art known as "Dai-To Ryu Aiki Jujitsu", which became the direct ancestor of modern day aikido.
The Dai-To Ryu is traced back to the Satsuma province of Japan, as a martial arts taught in secret for generations in the Saigo family. In the 19th century, Saigo Danomo and Saigo Dakamori were one of the key players of the Meichi coup which restored the Emperor to power. And then, the Saigo family rebelled again against the government of modern Japan.
It is said, that as the rebellion met its last phases and the Saigo family was faced with total destruction, the lords of the Saigo family taught all of their secrets to Takeda Sogaku.
By that time, in the 19th century, the modern judo surfaced in the school of Kotokan - and they had a one legendary hero, Saigo Shiro. Saigo Shiro was a legendary judo master, and it is probably his account Swoop mentions. I don't think it's much to be ego-deflated about - as the importance of Saigo Shiro would be something akin to the importance of people like Muhammad Ali to the boxing world. In short, Saigo Shiro, is like the Erich Hartmann of 19th century martial arts world of Japan.
Master Takeda was aware of judo, and while never in public, he fiercely considered Kotokan and Judo as its main rival. People studying in Aikido may well note the key difference between Aikido and Judo in the way how they de-balance the opponent and suppress him.
Master Takeda never formed a school of his own, but nearing his death, the last pupil he took underhim was the young Ueshiba Morihei, who would become the founder of Aikido in the latter days.
