The Budokwai Jiu-Jitsu Film Recorded in 1949

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu looks just like Judo, because it is Basically Just Judo. When Mitsuyo Maeda, a.k.a. "Conde Koma", began teaching Carlos Gracie in Belem do Para, Brazil in 1917, he was teaching Jigoro Kano's Jiu-Jitsu direct from the Kodokan in Japan. The name "Judo" was not popularized until 1925. Mitsuyo Maeda was a Kodokan Judo instructor whose specialty was ground fighting (newaza). This type of ground-only fighting is often referred to as Kosen Judo, or High School Judo, because it was popularized in Japanese High Schools as a form of interscholastic wrestling. Kosen Judo rules allowed direct transition to newaza, enabling scenarios where one less skilled competitor could drag the other down to the ground (a tactic now known as "pulling-guard" in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu). There is absolutely no question that the Gracie family demonstrated great skill and marketing acumen by promoting "Gracie Jiu-Jitsu" or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to the masses. Helio Gracie's loss to Kodokan Judoka Masahiko Kimura was advertised as a "moral victory". More importantly, the Gracies sponsored the original Ultimate Fighting Championships when the world was begging for a professional combat sport with more depth than Boxing and more realism than the WWF. However, there is now a generation of Jiu-Jitsu students who only know half the story. Worse yet, they are often paying enormous prices for the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu name only to learn a subset of Jigoro Kano's original Jiu-Jitsu techniques and teaching methods. The Judo world has not been without fault too. High ranking judoka often looked down on the new popular MMA world due to Judo's Olympic status. As a result, most Judo schools have been over-emphasizing the throwing techniques within Judo due to pressure from the International Olympic Comittee to increase ratings on TV for the brief moments when Olympic Judo would receive air time. Similarly, there is a generation of Jiu-Jitsu students, and now instructors, who incorrectly think Judo is nothing but a standing sport.

The commentary sounds like a wildlife documentary, or maybe a golf tournament. :D

Saving this one. Brilliant video.

Thank you for this upload, I've only seen clips of this footage.

That was fantastic. Many thanks for posting it.

This is old school Judo but you can clearly see the link to the original Gracie Jiu Jitsu. The use of the guard, the mount and even knee on belly which they called uki gatame. You don't see these techniques to the same extent in modern Judo. Even some of the self defence techniques from the kime no kata can still be seen in the Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defence syllabus. Fascinating video, thanks for sharing.

Very nice upload, thanks from Holland.

Thanks for uploading this, I finally get to see the "daisharin" technique shown in Sacripanti's book. It looks like Koizumi was into Tenshin shin'yo ryu when he founded the Budokwai, and then converted to Kodokan judo a couple of years later. This would explain why the kata show here look very different, as he probably still didn't know about the official forms in detail.

Its traditional Judo and Judo kata pure and simple, people need to know what theyre talking about, , I still do face breakfalls as part of my warm up, the Budokwai is a Judo institution, a British Kodokan if you like, Sport Judo as you see today doesnt allow anything but throws and groundwork, there is more to Judo than what you see on the tatami today.I reiterate, all of this is Judo, born from "jujitsu", BJJ comes from Judo newaza.

A hour worth watching-thank u for posting it-Ari of don,t be a victim.

This is old school Judo.

First photo is Gigasashi Chadamoto

I just saw Helio Gracie favorite guard pass . Brazilian my ass lol

Why are people fighting over names and styles!? Only rookies do that! It's All Martial Arts ❤

At the time of Judos conception, it was called Kano-Jiu Jitsu. So this is Jiu Jitsu. Judo is another form of Jiu Jitsu

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This is JUDO bro not BJJ! Classical JuJutsu is different!!

I dont advise letting your legs cross during breakfalls if you can possibly avoid it, it can be hard on the nuts sometimes.

Neither Judo nor BJJ ... this is pure traditional Japanese Jiu-jitsu, father martial art of Judo,BJJ, ,AIIKIDO ..etc.. thanks for uploading this old gold.

Pre-WW2 Judo.