The Guard : early evidence and depictions

This video discusses the earliest evidence for the guard and the attacks from it and how far they might have stretched back.

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Poor Judokas. They train for over a century and didn't knew they learned it from Helio.

[RichardYu]

The Gracies tried to edit even their own martial history. The first fighter in the family was George Gracie, but he was edited out of the history when he wouldn’t accept some terms from his brother Carlos. Then, Hélio edited out Carlos after he died in 1994 and said in fact it was him who made the most significant technical contributions to BJJ. The fact is, the Gracies’ greatest contribution to BJJ is in continuing Maeda’s tradition of challenge matches. Without the UFC as a marketing tool for Jiu Jitsu, BJJ wouldn’t be as prolific as it is today. They, the Gracies, showed that the techniques work, but they aren’t the originators.

[rashidmartialarts]

I remember gene Lebell saying that the Gracies didn't invent anything new

[roninnotasheeplikeyou.]

This by far is the best Judo & Jujitsu channel by far on this site.

It sweeps aside all the pointless politics & ego driven altered so called realities of some with actual facts.

[psychoshonen]

Kron: great jiu-jitsu practitioner, terrible historian.

[jiujitsusilencer]

The Gracies didn't invent anything, But they did popularized jiu jitsu and made it more mainstream.

Absolutely love your work, please keep up the good work.

[jasontroy]

Mifune was demonstrating some pretty advanced techniques there

[pedrocabral]

My opinion. Gracie family were not the only ones to practice JiuJitsu in Brazil. First of all they were originally from Belem-Para (North Brazil) were they possibly met and trained with Maeda, who must have had other students. Then moved to Rio (Southeast Brazil). But during their time in Rio, then the capital of Brazil until the 1960s, there was also the birth of "brazilian catch wrestling" (Luta Livre) and the growth of Kodokan Judo with the intense immigration from Japan (specially to Sao Paulo state). Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is what was born from the cooperation and conflicts from those different arts, adapted by the sport competitive rules which allows for a much more intense focus on ground work. It is awsome to see some techniques from modern BJJ at 1950s Kosen Judo for instance. For Luta Livre I like the work of Roberto Leitao, and Nicolas Renier (France) is doing a great work in youtube. For Jiu Jitsu I like the work of Osvaldo Alves, who was a exchange student at Tenri University during the 1950s, where he was part of the Judo Team. Bringing back much expertise on techniques and training methods to BJJ. This university has created several world and olympic champions.

[kpllc]

Kron also thinks the Earth is flat so...

[genarohernandezjr.]

Chadi, thank you so much for this video and all the links to references you provided. This is very helpful. I'm really happy I found your channel.

[ramqi]

I m pertty sur the invented the electricity ans fire too or maybe Who knows the first homosepien is a gracie too

[roflswamp]

This is one of the greatest channels ive ever seen by far and caters to exactly everything it is i wish to know aboht history and grappling thank you chadi

[nicotamburellamusicchannel]

Always polite, to the point and honest. Great source of information Thank you for sharing this with us. Oss

[samgrafton]

I always thought of the guard as something that people instinctively do, defensively, when grappling. Whether they've trained it (and understand it) or not; on some level, I think the guard is instinctive to the human body.
Helio's a jiujitsu legend, but he didn't invent the guard out of nowhere.

[ALL_CAPS__]

You are spot on on the Japanese not boasting about the skills and abilities. In my experience, you are taught respect and humbleness. Everything else speaks for itself.

[beskeptic]

LOL seeing Kano-shihan's and Mifune-sensei's face! hahahaha

[poochersmontgomery]

Great video. Most of my grappling background comes from BJJ, but the info your presenting is spot on! People have always called me crazy about this very topic. There is so much evidence to support multiple grappling systems use of the guard prior to BJJ. It's like the bow an arrow, it popped up all over the world independent of eachother. It's so cool how we find a way to solve a problem, and how similar it looks from place to place. Thanks for spreading great info!

[roninnotasheeplikeyou.]

So very interesting. The historical roots are so important.

[c]

Finally the Japanese masters getting the recognition they deserve! Thanks Chadi 🙏🏼

[eastsidemma]

I've been wanting a video like this forever. Awesome! Bjj didn't so much invent guard as they discovered more inventive strategies within the guard concept.