Encyclopedia of Jiu-Jitsu
🕊️Living Memory
Stories and legacy of those who built the art.
From feudal Japan to packed Abu Dhabi gyms, from a garage mat in California to today's streaming arenas: the world history of Jiu-Jitsu spans more than a centur...
Between the arrival of a Japanese judoka to an Amazon port city in 1914 and Brazil's consolidation as the main source of Jiu-Jitsu world champions, more than a...
Every martial art has its mythological founders, but Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has something rarer: a reasonably documented chain of real names, with dates, fights, a...
While historic 20th century Jiu-Jitsu posters and photos almost always showed only men, a small group of women was, quietly and then not so quietly, paving the...
Gracie Barra, Alliance, Nova União, Checkmat: for those following competitive Jiu-Jitsu, these names sound almost like football clubs — each with its supporters...
Some fights transcend the result on the scoreboard and become part of the collective memory of an entire sport — not because they decided some championship, but...
Unlike century-old sports with a single museum and a single gallery of legends, Jiu-Jitsu has more than one "hall of fame" — and none of them is a century-old i...
Ask a black belt who was the teacher who promoted them, then ask who promoted that teacher, and keep asking: in a few steps, you will probably reach a handful o...
Few families in any sport in the world have a surname as inseparable from the modality itself as the Gracies are from Jiu-Jitsu. But reducing this legacy to a s...
A sport that began as dispersed knowledge among schools of Japanese warriors, underwent systematization in Tokyo, took definitive form in a Rio family, and toda...
