5 years: Franco's book *Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Unlocked*
Without people like Mitsuyo Maeda—and I mean a lot of Maedas—jiu-jitsu would likely have fallen into obscurity in the 20th century.
We owe the preservation of this martial art’s valuable and unique knowledge to the many masters who left their homeland of Japan at the turn of the century to build a new future for themselves in the West. They all embarked on an arduous journey: either to leave behind a Japan that was rapidly changing following the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and to create better prospects for their future lives; or because—like Maeda—theywere expressly sent out into the wider world by their masters to spread the “gentle art.”
This ismy history of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu,which came from Japan to Europe and Brazil and later spread throughout the world. The book is available inGerman,English, andSpanish.
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