#Jiujitsu

[thepopculturearchivist]

LITERARY DIGEST, August 27, 1927

[melaninpov]

Aaron Pierre in Men’s Health (2024)

“Mental health and spiritual wellbeing is equally if not more important. So I really prioritize meditation, I really prioritize communicating what I’m experiencing with my loved ones and people who I trust and are near and dear to my heart. I’m all about peace. I’m all about feeling centered and grounded. I think that is my definition of happiness.” - Aaron Pierre

[agressivieandrophilia]

Destroy your own weaknesses. Abandon all fragility in your body. Be a man, be tough. Experience the power of virility. Discover the power of your muscles. The masculinity that exists in sweat, in hard training, in discipline. A man's honor is built on his work. The work of man is his body, his mind, his soul, his life. Virility is synonymous with life for a man. Fight, train, work hard. Keep away, man, from everything that makes you weak and fragile. The male body is built on fight.

Destrua suas próprias fraquezas. Abandone toda a fragilidade de seu corpo. Seja homem, seja duro. Experimente o poder da virilidade. Descubra o poder de seus músculos. A masculinidade que há no suor, no treino duro, na disciplina. A honra de um homem é construída na sua obra. A obra do homem é seu corpo, sua mente, sua alma, sua vida. Virilidade é sinônimo de vida para um homem. Lute, treine, trabalhe duro. Afaste-se homem de tudo aquilo que o deixa fraco e frágil. O corpo do homem é construído na luta.

[guysshowingofftheirmuscles]

BJJ Black Belt

[city-of-ladies]

Edith Garrud - The suffragette that knew martial arts

The first British female teacher of jujutsu, Edith Garrud (1872-1971) taught the suffragettes to protect themselves.

A passion for martial arts 

Edith Margaret Williams was born in Bath in 1872 and started her career as a physical instructor for girls. She shared this passion for physical culture with her husband, William Garrud, a wrestling and boxing instructor.

They came in contact with Edward Barton-Wright who had spent three years in Japan, and studied judo and jujutsu. He elaborated his self-defense techniques known as “bartitsu” and opened his club in London in 1899.

The Bartitsu Club was notably opened to women. Edith was thus able to train alongside her husband. By 1908, Edith and William became jujutsu instructors themselves with William in charge of the men’s class and Edith teaching the women and children. 

Jujutsu specializes in speed, precision and the use of soft, flowing movements to deal with aggression rather than using just brute strength. The couple showcased their skills through demonstrations. In one of them, Edith defeated a male aggressor played by her husband. The sight of this 4ft-11inch (150cm) woman effortlessly throwing a much taller man greatly impressed the audience. 

In 1907, Edith starred in a short film Jujutsu down the footpads in which an innocent lady overpowers two ruffians. 

Vote for women

Edith took an interest in the cause of women’s suffrage. In 1909, she was invited by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to give a demonstration in the presence of Emeline Pankhurst and other leading figures of the movement. As William was ill, Edith demonstrated alone and invited members of the audience to test her skills. This included subjecting a skeptical police officer to a powerful shoulder throw. 

In 1910, Edith also wrote a series of essays, advocating for the growing community of female martial artists and how self-defense could free women by giving them the means to protect themselves:

“You constantly read in the papers reports of dastardly attacks on helpless women by thieves and ruffians. A woman who knows jujutsu, even though she may not be physically strong, even though she may not have even an umbrella or parasol, is not helpless. I know many women personally who have tried the tricks I shall explain to you and come out on top. They have brought great burly cowards nearly twice their size to their feet and made them howl for mercy.”

The bodyguards

The suffragettes faced dangerous and violent situations. This was especially the case on Friday 18th November 1910. 300 WSPU members marched on the House of Parliament and faced police officers armed with batons. Women were subjected to six hours of beatings and arrests and there were widespread reports of sexual abuses.

Emeline Pankhurst thus asked Edith to train a group of women that would be known within the WSPU as the Bodyguard. Led by Gertrude Harding, they acted as agitators, disruptors and decoys. 

Edith trained them in hand-to-hand combat and the use of homemade concealed weapons such as wooden India clubs and the fashioning of cardboard body armor. The suffragettes took advantage of their opponent's surprise and exploited their weaknesses.

They for instance struck directly at a police officer’s helmet to knock it from his head. Policemen were held accountable for the loss of uniform items and had to pay for their replacement. They cut the suspenders so that the policeman had to hold back his pants, blinded the police with a charge of umbrellas etc.

When told by a policeman that she was making an “obstruction” during a demonstration near the House of Commons, Edith pretended to drop her handkerchief, threw the policeman over her shoulder and disappeared into the crowd. 

In prison, suffragettes went on hunger strikes and were subjected to force-feeding. The “Cat and Mouse Act” of 1913 allowed hunger-striking prisoners to be released and then re-incarcerated as soon as they had recovered their health. The Bodyguard thus protected and hid those women.

Edith for instance hid militant suffragettes in her dojo, telling the police not to disturb her lessons and leave her property. 

A quiet retirement

Edith’s contributions to the suffragist movement ended with the beginning of the First World War. Little is known of her life afterward. 

She and her husband would run the Golden Square dojo until their retirement in 1925 and retired to a quieter life. William passed away in 1960. In an interview in 1965, Edith said that her recipe for a long, happy and healthy life was: 

“Self-discipline. Of course, I had to be extremely disciplined to succeed at jujutsu and hold my own with men […] but it is the mind which really has control, not only of your muscles and your limbs and how you use them, but also your thoughts, your whole attitude to life and other people.”

She died in 1971. A plaque on the building that had been her home can be seen today: “Edith Garrud 1872–1971. The suffragette who knew jiu-jitsu lived here”.

Further reading

Dorlin Elsa, Se défendre : une philosophie de la violence  

Godfrey Emelyne, Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes

Kelly Simon, "Edith Garrud: The jujutsuffragette". In McMurray, Robert; Pullen, Allison (eds.), Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management

Ruz Camila, Parkinson Justin, ““'Suffrajitsu': How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts”

[sorthaz]

I want to see if he can make him tap with the triangle....

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Policewomen practicing jiujitsu, March 22, 1924. Mrs. Hamilton, who is in charge of the class, gives instructions. The policewomen said that after they got their muscles hardened a little more, they would be able to make arrests without the aid of a male partner.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[tomhardymyking]

Reminder to everyone that 𝗧𝗼𝗺 is also a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, and he is a champion, gold medal winner in championships 💜🥋🥇

If you want to remember those days through photos and videos, go to the link in my bio (I think I have fixed some problems that there were with some links and you can now see all the contents) 😏

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Recordatorio para todos que 𝗧𝗼𝗺 también es cinturón morado en Jiu-jitsu Brasileño, y es un campeón, ganador de medallas de oro en campeonatos 💜🥋🥇

Si queréis recordar esos días a través de fotos y vídeos, mirad en el enlace de mi biografía (creo que he arreglado algunos problemas que habían con algunos enlaces y ya se pueden ver todos los contenidos) 😏

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[the-ghost-bird]

You know what I think is interesting? As a decently buff woman, the attitude of men towards me in a gym vs in a martial arts academy is VERY different.

Usually men in a gym will look at me That Way™ when I walk into the weight section and do 2 hours of upper body weight training. A lot are judgemental af, trying to dissect my form even tho I've gone through several personal trainers and my form is usually better than theirs. Just overall bad energy.

The men in my martial arts academy?

Something else entirely.

The guys from muay thai and bjj, especially the ones from wrestling, are always hyping me up and encouraging me. Of course there's some exceptions, but most of these dudes have already been humbled by enough women that they're eons less judgemental.

They respect me enough to not go easy on me but they don't try to genuinely injure me (bad sportsmanship no matter the gender). If something about my form in a technique is off, they will give me constructive criticism instead of being demeaning or just staying silent about it to try to guarantee a win.

A guy last week was like "you really be brawling, you picked me up and rolled my on the ground like an alligator", and another dude today was like "you're getting so strong so fast it's ridiculous." AND I'M LIKE THANK YOU FOR THE GOOD ENERGY, WORKING OUT IS 80% OF MY PERSONALITY SO IM HOPING TO BE GOOD IN AT LEAST THAT😭😭😭💕💕

[bigdumbjock]

Rough Jiu Jitsu match!

[melaninpov]

Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond in Rebel Ridge (2024)

A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.

[agressivieandrophilia]

When you come across a real man, even in that man's calm you are struck by the power of his virility. Testosterone runs in his blood, in a real man, we can smell the testosterone on his skin, in his presence. A real man does not fear, because he has overcome fear and all his weaknesses. Virility is power.

Quando você se depara com um homem de verdade, até na calma desse homem você é atingido pelo poder da sua virilidade. A testosterona corre em seu sangue, em um homem de verdade, podemos sentir o cheiro da testosterona na sua pele, na sua presença. Um homem de verdade não teme, porque ele venceu o medo e todas suas fraquezas. A virilidade é poder.

[guysshowingofftheirmuscles]

Have A Great Day!

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[sorthaz]

Now is it tighter if flex and move this leg, or bend this arm...... What if I do both!