"They do not have any rough, noisy, and loud pastimes except wrestling, which they practice as an exercise and art for war." - João Rodrigues (1561 - 1633) This Island of Japon Some practitioners of pre-modern Japanese martial arts - koryū - augment their training with some form of combat sport practice in order to add "live" or "freestyle" fighting, as many koryū either eschew sparring practice entirely, or do not place much emphasis on it. This includes weapons' disciplines, where practitioners may add an art like kendo, more rarely another Asian weapons or historical European art with sparring. And jūjutsu, where people tend to study judo or, increasingly BJJ ("Brazilian" Jiujitsu). 1 I've done Judo and jiujitu (to black belt level), but explored sumō as well. While I have been interested in it from very early on, after reading up on Chinese wrestling and sensing a connection between them, I first experienced sumō-like training in A...
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