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Jiu

Jitsu

Complete

by KIYOSE NAKAE

Assisted by CHARLES YEAGER

tr!HMAN BROS.

PUBLISHERS

1118ROADW~Y NEWYORK3. N.Y.

LYLE STUART

NEW YORK

Jiu Jitsu Complete

@ 1958, by

Kiyose Nakae & Charles Yeager

right to reproduce this book

or portions thereof in any form.

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should be addressed to Lyle Stuart

225 Lafayette Street, New York 12, N. Y.

Typography by The Polyglot Press

Printed in the United States of America

Publisher's Preface

I have known and admired Professor Kiyose N akae for many

years. He is considered the foremost instructor of authentic Jiu Jitsu

in the western world. His students come from all over the world to

New York City. To receive private lessons from him you have to put

yourself on a waiting list and his schedule is so crowded that you may

have to wait a year or two for your first lesson.

Professor Nakae has spent most of his life teaching Jiu Jitsu to

Americans. When he first arrived in this country some fifty years ago

he was hired to teach his skills to police departments in all parts of

the land.

Professor N akae knows thousands of tricks. From his boyhood he

was drilled in the methods of the old masters of the Jiu Jitsu art. In

nearly fifty years of teaching, he has boiled his system down to a com-

pact group of tricks which comprise a complete method of self-defense

and which are the easiest and most practical to learn. The dubious

tricks that don't work-and which are found in so many of the books

that have appeared on the subject-are not in these pages. The tricks

in these pages work: each and everyone. This alone makes it a unique

product!

It is one thing to teach Jiu Jitsu in private lessons. It is quite

another to teach it with a book. Only because of Nakae's deep under-

standing of his science and his unequalled teaching ability has such a

book become possible.

Books on the self-defense arts are usually illustrated with cartoons

or photographs. Professor Nakae and Charles Yeager examined these

and concluded they were of little value when it came to practical

learning.

A new method of showing the tricks had to be devised. Hundreds

of photographs were taken of two men in action. A skilled artist then

made line drawings from the photographs. I believe the result has more

than justified the time, effort and expense that was invested to make

such a perfect visual presentation.

My feelings were confirmed when the manuscript of this book was

submitted to B. Vedel of Chicago who is probably the authority on

books about Jiu Jitsu and Judo.

"The line drawings are a brilliant idea!" was the comment. "This

is the best thing I have ever seen on the subject, and as you know, I

regard books on the subject with a very jaundiced eye. This one is

almost as good as actually working in class!"

There has never been a book like this one. And perhaps there has

never been a time when this book was so badly needed. For in this

changing world, the streets of our cities often seem like paths in a dense

jungle fraught with peril.

A working knowledge of Jiu Jitsu offers the average man (or

woman) an ability to cope with and triumph over a physical attacker

-and to do so with ease. This, whether the opponent is larger, more

powerful, or armed with knife or gun.

Mastering Jiu Jitsu has the pleasant byproduct of giving one a

feeling of security in situations once packed with tensions and fears.

Interestingly enough, a study has shown that a person trained in Jiu

Jitsu is less likely to run into "trouble" than an untrained person. This

could be because of the air of self-confidence the Jiu Jitsu-trained

person possesses. Or it may be because he is less willing to become em-

broiled in physical violence because he knows that when he goes into

action, the other guy is going to be badly hurt. Theodore Roosevelt

said to "Speak softly and carry a big stick." The Jiu Jitsu student may

also speak softly because he knows that his skill is a very big and very

damaging stick.

The book you hold in your hands is not a plaything. Jiu Jitsu is

serious business and must be studied and practiced until the student

is skilled in the art.

I was tempted to say "in the almost lost art" for a lost art it has

almost become. Jiu Jitsu is no longer taught in Japan. It is no longer

passed from generation to generation, as it had been for hundreds of

years. And here I should explain that Jiu Jitsu is not Judo-and

there the likeness ends. Judo, of course, derived

much from Jiu Jitsu.

However Jiu Jitsu is an art of self-defense which was developed

with skill and precision as the exclusive property of Japanese nobility.

Judo is played for points. Jiu Jitsu is played "for keeps." With

Jiu Jitsu you may, as you desire, punish, damage, or even kill your

opponent.

With Jiu Jitsu, David may defeat Goliath. Thus the beaury of the

art is that it relies for success not upon brute strength but upon finesse

and the ability to win by seeming to yield.

One last note before you enter the portals of your Jiu Jitsu class-

room. As the published, it was my original plan to price this book at

$6. Though the volume is small, its production costs were large and

would justify the $6 price. But then it was decided, for sentimental

reasons, to price the book at $5. For $5 is the cost of a single forty-five

minute lesson with Professor Nakae. And here is the course for the

price of a single lesson!

Lyle Stuart

...

the

two should not be confused.

Judo is a sport and a worthy one. Its popularity is very much on

the increase, and many believe the time will soon come when Judo is

an Olympics sport.

There is a surface similarity about some of the movements in Judo

and Jiu Jitsu-but

the generations of men before us

whose lifetime devotion to the

art of ]iu ]itsu has made this

book possible.

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