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British Suffragettes Knew Jūjitsu

Ridiculous History

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I Think It's Brown Belt. And Then Maybe Yellow Belt.

Jujitsu is a japanese martial art upon which a lot of other martial arts and combat sports have been informed. The idea is to sort of weaponize your opponent's momentum. It's a great self defence technique for people that maybe aren't like the mma type, you know, or like bruisers. You can easily kind of misdirect, or redirect the energy of your attacker and use it against them. So what on earth does the push for voting rights have to do with jujitsu? Well this is, in part, a credibly inspiring story. And if you look there's a great all thats interesting article that we wanted to start off with describing the suff

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