It is widely thought that China and Japan are where the ancient martial arts were developed, but little is really know as fact.  We do know that in 1532 Japan founded the takenouchi-ryu martial art system where jujitsu was taught, and over the next 700 years these namely self-defence arts were studied and practiced by the famous Samurai warriors. Most martial arts were unarmed combat. There were over 700 different forms of jujitsu systems by the mid 1800’s.

We explore briefly below some of the most well-known: [Read more...]