In 1900, the school Kodokan Judo suffered a crushing defeat in the competition against Fusen Ryu Ju-Jutsu. This school specializes in NE VASE or methods of the fight lying down, and thanks to perfect technique and the tactics of this section, the men of style Fusen Ryu jujutsu convincingly demonstrated its superiority over judo champions, winning almost all the fights pain and strangling techniques.
Kano himself has always preferred throwing techniques. He understood the importance and necessity of fighting, lying down, but his personal preference was more spectacular and amplitude techniques, which he borrowed and reworked from Kito Ryu jujutsu. Evidence of this program is early Kodokan Judo, Kano systematized in 1895. Among the technical action Gokyu but Vase was not a single method of struggle, lying down, and the whole course contained only throws. Lack of skills in ground fighting and led to the defeat of the Kodokan fighters in competitions.
Important role in this was played and the fact that the Kodokan had not played the master of other styles of jujutsu, as it was in earlier times in the famous battle of Judo against Totsuka-ha Yoshino Ryu, Kodokan when exhibited as representatives of their students Oshikiuchi (Daito Ryu aiki jujutsu) and several other schools of traditional ju-jitsu.
After this defeat, the Kano chapter asked Fusen Ryu ju-jitsu masters Mataemona Tanabe show him the basic elements of the program and the basic techniques of this school, and soon to find such developments in Dzikishin Ryu Ju-Jitsu, he incorporated them into the curriculum of the Kodokan Judo. It is believed that from this moment Kodokan started to gravitate toward the ground fighting.
In 1914, All Japan championship high school, started at Kyoto Imperial University. He is the first step towards creating KOSEN judo or practices in the fight lying. This form of judo has become so popular and advanced, that in 1925, Cano said the gradual shift from experienced dzyudokami throwing techniques. The tendency to lay emphasis on the struggle has emerged as a new student and have already experienced masters judo, as effectiveness of this technique, and above all the simplicity of its use against fighters, superior in weight, was evident, compared with the technique of throwing.
In this regard, the rules of competitive Judo been reworked and they were introduced specific requirements to all the matches start from the position in the rack, easy to carry throwing techniques. Under the new rules, if a competitor tried to convert the enemy in the supine position simply by pulling or hanging on it without any attempt at a throw or actively beating his opponent is automatically declared the winner.
Despite a clear preference for throwing techniques, Kano understood the need to improve skills of students in Kosen Judo, and felt an acute need for specialists who will be seriously engaged in the development of this section.
To this end, the Seven Universities Tournament, which is regularly held in Japan to this day, was released from these new rules of the Kodokan. Kosen Judo students represented the elite fighters, and in combat, held by them, it was considered shameful to signal the surrender of cotton or voice. Strangulation and injuries of joints when performing painful receptions were the inevitable end of the set of contractions. Of course, such hard training led to the rapid growth of experience and skill and the emergence of true professionals in ground fighting.
Following the establishment of the International Judo Federation in 1951, the popularity of this type of war was rapidly.
At this time, guidance Brazilian schools, known later under the name of Gracie Ju-Jutsu decided it was time to take advantage of the wave of popularity of Judo to develop their own direction.
Exist in Brazil since the beginning of the first decade of the 20 th century school of Japanese fighting began its history since the arrival Mitsuo Maeda, Wizard 4-dan Kodokan Judo, which had won over 1000 matches in the Americas. With the support of an influential politician Gracie, Maeda began teaching judo his sons, with an emphasis on the use of Kosen Judo as the main method of battle.
By 1951, they won the reputation of the strongest wrestlers in Brazil and began to call his style “Ju-Jutsu Gracie family. This name emphasizes the application of ideas of softness and flexibility in a duel and, in general, not against the concept of the Kodokan, and was seen by them in Maadi. Also, Gracie borrowed from judo rank system, changing the certification program at their discretion.
In essence, their style was a classic Kosen Judo, in the same form in which they received it from Maeda for a relatively short period of training. Maeda managed to pass only the basic elements and some advanced equipment before returning to Japan, but that did not stop to change their name to include the name of his family and to arrogate to itself and students workshops degree.
To gain international fame, in 1951, the best fighter school Helio Gracie traveled to Japan for an official challenge to fight any member of the Kodokan Judo.
At the rate after receiving the call, Masahiko Kimura, the champion of the All Japan Judo Championships in 1949 was sent to Brazil to conduct this fight.
Kimura was the world judo awesome reputation as one of the strongest fighters. Arriving in Brazil, he suggested Gracie fight with his younger assistant, informing the public that if Gracie does not win in a fight, he simply did not bother to fight it. Once Helio Gracie won the match with a young fighter, Kimura officially recognized the challenge and agreed to the fight.
Over 20 thousand Brazilians, including the president and vice president welcomed Kimura and Gracie, standing facing each other. To emphasize the importance of this event, the family of Gracie had a powerful advertising campaign, through the media reported about the upcoming fight in Europe and America.
Once the match started, Kimura immediately seized the initiative, and without giving Helio Gracie to any technical action immediately threw him to the mat. Kimura did not pursue prosecution, and on the ground fighting, and let the enemy get to spend even a cascade of effective shots, each of which literally drove to a mat.
It is interesting that, knowing that a hallmark of competitive matches Kimura are powerful throws, the organizers of the fight from a family of Gracie set unusually soft mats, which nullify the effectiveness of this technique. (However, the representatives of Brazil was probably unaware that Masahiko Kimura, also majored in Kosen Judo and was a great expert in the section against lying).
Realizing that because of this, Gracie will not be injured throwing techniques as fast as he wanted, Kimura, after one throw, the absorption of soft coating followed his opponent to the mat and held a deduction. When Gracie tried to escape from confinement, Kimura, taking advantage of this movement, seized his hand into the castle and purely spent an armlock on the elbow. After a short pause, when Helio Gracie refused to surrender and tried to continue the fight, Kimura was forced to break his arm, which he did.
Even then, Gracie refused to admit defeat, and then made Kimura pain seizure of the head and neck. Blood gushed from his ears Brazilian fighter and Kimura, bending his head and asked loudly, “Are you all right?”. Gracie answered “yes”, and then Kimura, according to eyewitnesses “began smashing his head like an overripe melon. Thereafter, members of the family Gracie threw in the towel, admitting a shameful defeat.
The fight lasted about 13 minutes.
Thank Gracie family had subsided, and representatives of the school waiting for another 35 years have not done yet another attempt to win international recognition for his style of judo.
It should be noted that Helio Gracie refused to admit defeat and made accusations against his brother, threw in the towel. In one of the sites have a version that a representative of Gracie threw in the towel after the armlock on hand, even before the injury.