About Jujutsu

Japan: Jujutsu is a Japanese unarmed combat system originally developed by the samurai warriors for use on the battlefield or during personal duels. Jujutsu was originally designed to defend against either armed or unarmed assailants, and included the use of small secreted weapons designed to pierce armour.

Techniques from jujutsu have been absorbed into military and police force training Worldwide. Many jujutsu techniques unheard of in the West before 1900 are now seen in wrestling, judo, grappling arts, aikido, and many other modern fighting systems.

Traditional jujutsu developed over hundreds of years evolving within the old martial sword schools (ryu). The modern study of jujutsu does not always included all of the traditional teachings, sometimes focusing only on specific aspects such as grappling and submission (seen in may sport forms), joint locking and restraint (as seen in enforcement instruction) and so on.

Outside Japan: Kokusai Jujutsu Ryu - International Jujutsu Institute (KJR-IJI) has its origins with the famous Kyoto Kokusai Jujutsu Daigakuin (International Jujutsu Society) of Japan (1899-1945). A branch studio was opened outside Japan in 1935 by the late grandmaster and Kyoto graduate Professor Kam Hock Hoe (1903-1990), Kam first established 'Hoe's Ju-Jitsu Studio' in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya to teach Police and Military personnel. He opened an International Institute in 1956, in Penang, Malaya (Malaysia), which operated until 1979. He also held classes at the Royal Air Force (UK) and Royal Australian Air Force Base at Butterworth (on the Malaysian mainland near Penang Island). He moved back to Kuala Lumpur in 1979 and taught privately at this home until his death in 1990.

Australia: Kokusai Jujutsu Ryu was founded in Australia in 1970, and constituted in 1975 by R.B. Lea (master dan student of Professor Kam). In 1979, Lea appointed J.R. Bear as Australian headquarters chief-instructor and he has held this position since that time.

Bear assists many of his black belt coaches in Australia and overseas, and while conducting local classes in jujutsu and Japanese martial arts in Canberra, he regularly teaches, researches and spreads KJR jujutsu and related arts both nationally and overseas.

Training syllabus: the KJR-IJI jujutsu syllabus has been passed down from teacher to student within the Institute during the past 100 years. The syllabus includes:

• Nagete (Throwing techniques)
• Teho (Hand releases, restraining methods, escapes from holds and locks)
• Kumiuchi (Ground techniques and grappling)
• Kuatsu (Arts of immobilising and restoration, which includes Atemijutsu (lethal striking) and Shimete (strangulation methods).
• Kobudo (Jujutsu related weapons training - armed and unarmed training).