How does a club coach explain to novices the way? There is a great deal more to achieving the skills than simply training every week. Here is one aspect; maybe some of you reading this have other ideas?
"Ju-Jitsu is a method of defence and offence without weapons in personal encounter. For many centuries in Japan it was practised as a military art together with fencing, archery and the use of the spear.
Ju Jitsu is not a contest of muscular strength. Nor is its prime purpose to damage or maim, but merely to incapacitate one's opponent for the time being by means of simple tricks and holds. Ju Jitsu tricks and holds can be very simple.
A thorough knowledge of them, gained only with constant practice, should develop
in one a feeling of strong self-confidence. This confidence causes a Jiu Jitsu
expert to react almost instinctively in the event of sudden attack and to
manoeuvre any situation to his or her own advantage".
George G. Yoshida, Secaucus,
New Jersey, 1958.
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