Jigoro Kano: May Badass of the Month - May 2009

**Lu Tze** · Posted On: 5/11/2009 7:49pm

Okay, this is getting embarrassing now...

I reckon Phrost is just picking us up so he can knock us down again... June is going to be Judo sucks month!

**Re4** · Posted On: 5/12/2009 12:07am

i only counted 265 badass points.

**Mas** · Posted On: 5/12/2009 11:17am

Originally Posted by Tom Kagan

That's because he does know how to spell Jujitsu in the U.S.

Just yanking his chain TK.

(And in my defense he was writing 'jiujitsu'.)

**Tom Kagan** · Posted On: 5/12/2009 12:59pm

'Jiujitsu' is also correct.

Spoiler:

**Mas** · Posted On: 5/12/2009 5:15pm

Spoiler:

**ignatzami** · Posted On: 5/12/2009 9:56pm

There is something nice about training in an art that you know has a clearly documented and verifiable history of slamming people into the planet with great force and gusto. Often more then once.

**DARPAChief** · Posted On: 5/13/2009 1:57am

For anyone interested in words:

Japanese has undergone a number of romanizations and these romanizations have endured several revisions. The revised Hepburn system is based on English phonology and is what one will usually encounter in English; under this system 柔術 is written as jūjutsu. Nevertheless there are still relics of past systems that linger (Godzilla comes to mind, today we'd write Gojira).

I am not familiar with the history of jūjutsu's romanization but I do know that jūjitsu is not the same word as jūjutsu. Jūjitsu (充実) is defined by the WWWJDIC as being either (1) fullness; completion; perfection; substantiality; enrichment; (2) replenishment; repletion; (P).