Reno Martial Arts
里諾武術

Reno Ju-Jitsu Training

The story of Jujitsu's origins have been largely lost in Japan's prehistory. Even before the Samurai existed, "jujitsu-like forms" were being developed and used in combat. The first records of combative grappling can be found shortly before 750 A.D.

Samurai of pre-Tokugawa Japan were required to be adept in a vast range of combat skills. Kyujitsu, kenjutsu, bajutsu, sojutsu and kumi-uchi were among the basics, these being the techniques of the bow and arrow, the sword, horsemanship, the spear and grappling in armor.

During the more than two hundred years of the Tokugawa rule, a general peace existed in Japan. Shut off from the rest of the world and tightly controlled and regulated to the smallest detail, Japanese society was prevented from returning to its former state of civil unrest by a government that severely punished nonconformity and political activism. It was during this period that jujitsu reached its zenith and much of what we recognize as jujitsu today was developed."