Bushido: The Complete History of British Jujutsu

A bit disappointed in this I was expecting more content that’s not already known or out there on the internet in other forms and maybe more fact around those early pioneers and of course the ones in later years that really developed jujitsu and spread it throughout the UK and further. For me what is written in this book was in main already known to me, with the odd discrepancy, the old Japanese wasn’t fully known but not what I was looking for. So the British aspect was the grab for me but as I’ve said already known. I do like the way it is written from a non political point of view with no greater emphasis on one martial artist named to another other nor any great significance on one group/organisation, as they have all played their part. I would like to clarify that it appears Bob Clark come out of a short amount of training at one point a brown belt to 8th dan, he trained not from the late 60’s but from the early 50’s as a child initially with Britten, a photo he had in his desk of him at 18 a black belt under Britten shows this, so by the late 60’s he already had numerous years of training having been born in 1946, so the document showing Robert Clark brown belt clearly an error but not by this author but that of the original document. Still a good little read for those wanting to know more, but sadly we will never really know who trained with who, how was the training, etc. as most of the names like Clark, Blundell Snr, Colwell etc have all sadly passed in order to ask or clarify.

History of British Jujutsu / New Haven Publishing.A book to satisfy all serious Martial Artists and Students interested in Lineage and origins of Jujutsu and allied arts.Simon has had the privilege and no doubt honour to have been given previously unknown and unreleased documents, information and anecdotes from and about founding fathers and their students many of whom still alive and kicking today.Simon has acknowledged with David Brough these gentlemen of the art that wanted to pass on their own club histories and made their contributions freely to this book. The book is already being well received at home and abroad with no small thanks to these dedicated pioneers.The measure of any historical book is sorting out the fact from fiction and romancing of the subject.The generous contributors help and assistance to Simon has ensured this book will be read by many students in the years to come, a paperback classic in the making. Please read the acknowledgements to understand the worth of this submission.

I absolutely loved this book as it filled in quite a few gaps I had about this subject and was a great read as well.There is still a book waiting to be written about post WW1 Ju Jutsu groups outside London and Liverpool and maybe this is the man to do it.

Nothing that could be interesting or new

An amazing Book. Read it from cover to cover as I could not put it down once I started reading it, if you ever wanted to know about the History of Ju-Jitsu and how it came to the UK then this is the book for you 5 Star Rating from me. John

As a student of the jujitsu martial art (or should I say Jujutsu) and with a love of history this has been an interesting read. A very informative account of where our modern day syllabus began. This is well worth a read by all students and will certainly increase appreciation for the martial art.

I thorough history of British Jujutsu with some interesting opinions.

Only read the first couple of chapters and can't put it down. I knew snippets of the history of Jujutsu and this is starting to fill in the blanks which makes interesting reading. When training in Ju jitsu in the 80's in Leeds and attending courses around Liverpool & Lancashire I was in awe of the high grades and wondered who trained these guys, how did these instructors get so good and thought being a high Dan grade was for men of myth, but now I'm starting to understand that the pioneers of British Jujutsu are the normal men who just wanted to share their knowledge, passion and success in Jujutsu.Can't wait to complete it,,,, Thumbs up so far for the author Simon Keegan!