Choque: The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil 1856-1949 (Volume 1) (83 page)

Yabu Kotaro. (2010)
.
柔
術
vs
.
レスリン
ク
[Jujutsu vs. Wrestling]. In Sakaue Yasuhiro
.
海を渡った柔術と柔道 [
Jujutsu and Judo across the Sea
]
(Pp. 12-59). Tokyo: Seikyusha.

Author

Roberto Pedreira is one of the numerous pseudonyms of R. A. Pedreira. He plays guitar, diatonic and
chromatic harmonica, and keyboards. He has studied with Joe Henderson and performed with John Lee Hooker, among other jazz and blues legends. He worked his way through graduate school by playing guitar and harmonica in local nightclubs, low-life dives, and kicker bars in Austin, Texas. He acquired basic boxing skills as a kid and become interested in boxing history, which eventually led him to other martial arts and ring/mat sports, particularly Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He has trained in Brazil, Thailand, Japan, and Korea, among other countries. He has black belts in several martial arts, including Brazilian jiu-jitsu (see
Jiu-jitsu in the South Zone 1997-2008
for details).

Roberto Pedreira’s writings have been published in
The Journal of Social Psychology
,
The International Journal of Psychology,
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
,
Asian Journal of Psychology
,
Journal of North East Asian Studies
,
Language and Communication
,
Visible Language
,
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
,
Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute
,
The Austin American-Statesman
,
The Japan Times
,
The Korea Herald
,
Black Belt
, and others.

Choque: The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil Vol. 1, 1856-1949
is the second volume in a trilogy. The first was
Jiu-jitsu in the South Zone 1997-2008
, published in 2013. The third will be
Choque
:
The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil Vol. 2, 1950-1999,
to be published in 1915.

Acknowledgments

The author thank
s Yoko Kondo for help with the Japanese translations, and Derek Mayhew for preparing the graphics and designing the book’s cover. Thanks also to capitalism and amazon.com for making the project possible. It goes without saying that the resources provided by the
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
were indispensable.

Illustrations

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Figure 1.
Luta Romana in Rio 1879.

Figure 2. Nicolau Pytlazinsky became the first world luta romana champion in 1887 when he defeated the invincible Paul Pons of
France.

Figure 3. Paul Pons, luta romana champion of France.

Figure 4. Gambier, French vice-champion of luta romana.

Figure 5.
Luta romana bridge.

Figure 6. Luta romana “
prise de
tê
te
” (Portuguese,
pri
sã
o de caba
eç
a
).

Figure 7. Luta romana hip toss.

Figure 8. Luta romana hip lock.

Figure 9. One early avenue of transmission of jiu-jitsu into Brazil was the 1906 translation of Irving Hancocks’ book.

Figure 10. Boxing versus Jiu-Jitsu. Sam MacVea, wearing kimono top,
knocks out Jiu-Jitsu representative Matsuda in 1908.

Figure 11. Sada Miyako versus Arnaldo Jose Ferreira, Rio, 1909.

Figure 12. Sada Miyako versus the man who defeated Raku in Lisbon.