Show jiu jitsu nothing new an art of self defence approximately equivalent to was known in europe in the seventeenth century its principles are expounded in a work by one nicholas peters published at amsterdam in 1674 and bearing the lengthy explanatory title the art of wrestling and how one can pro hect oneself in all kinds of quarrels that may occur how one can with agility and rapidity repel all unfair at tacks and meet one s adversary with science the author anticipated many of the characteristic grips of the modern japanese wrestlers |