Kanō Jigorō

Unless you're rich and you're just doing it for the sake of bringing up fighters.

I want to ask a question that I don't know if anyone will know the answer to, but when we start talking about guys like Funakoshi and, and Jigoro Kano and all those guys who started all this martial arts nonsense back in Japan and all that stuff, did they run commercial dojos? Like, does anybody know if those were dojos that were like when they were doing their thing and they were teaching, were they getting paid for that? Like, I think that kind of factors into a little bit of this question.

Does anybody have any understanding of that?

I was led to believe that when Funakoshi went to Japan, he went to the university and gave a demonstration of what he could do, and the university liked what they saw, and they kept him on to teach karate, but he was offered a very meager salary, so he was more or less a paid employee of the university of the day, but the karate itself took took a life of its own and and grew from there um i don't believe that he he uh did it for the money he did it for the money because he needed to survive it sounded like he did not have a very rich lifestyle i think he lived a paycheck to paycheck sort of thing but i don't it's not like uh the business models that are set up today at all

So ethnocentric internationalism, which is like early judo.

So when Jigoro Kano enabled judo and he connected it to, to his Olympic idea, nevertheless, he tried to connect judo worldwide with Japanese culture.

And over time, over time, over time, and, and the way on internationalization, the Japanese grip on judo and also on karate was lost.

So this is like the way maybe internationalization like judo, karate, and to distribute judo and karate in the world and to, to build maybe several different variants of karate and judo, which has happened to soccer.

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No work on the grips, like the judo about the time of Jigoro Kano.

So this is-

At the Kata event

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but he opened the legs.

He use the Jigoro Kano rules, use your, the strength of your opponent for throw your opponent.

That, that, that what he did, you know? That what he did.