Japanese Physical Training: The System of Exercise, Diet, and General Mode of Living that Has Made the Mikado's People the Healthiest, Strongest, and Happiest Men and Women in the World |
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abdomen Adam's apple adversary adversary's agility American antagonist arm-pinch assault athletic attack backward bath bend blow body boiled Caucasian CHAPTER clasped hands clenched fists contest coolie deep breathing defeat defence described diet edge elbow employed endurance feat feet fingers fish floor foot forward fresh air G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS grip heart hold hydropathy insomnia IRVING HANCOCK Japan Japanese diet Japanese student Japanese wrestler jitsu jiu-jitsu schools knee leap leap forward left arm left side master of jiu-jitsu muscles Nagasaki neck obese opponent's pain palpitation physical training pinch pole position possible practice public baths RESISTANT EXERCISE rice right hand samurai secured seized self-defence shoulder solar plexus stomach strength struggle taken taught throat throat-hold THROWING AN OPPONENT thumb tion to-day toughening tricks of combat upper arm victim victory waist-line weight woman wrench wrist York-G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS-London
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Page i - ... are antiquated and effete, they have no right, like megatheria of old, to hover about in the strata in which we live. We are ready to give them a place of honour in our museums, but we cannot allow ourselves to be swayed by them any longer. This may seem a harsh judgment especially as coming from one who has devoted the best years of his life to the publication of the Rig-Veda, and who certainly has never regretted having done so, as little as he would regret having been the first to unearth...
Page 54 - Japanese vital statistics will show that heart disease and nervous prostration are almost unknown as causes of death," where the diet is so simple and abstemious strongly confirms this view.
Page iii - They have done more, for, whereas jiu-jitsu was taught at one time to the aristocratic classes only, it is taught now to all of the people of Dai Nippon who wish to acquire it. The value of jiu-jitsu is proven by the fact that the Japanese, while a diminutive race, possess the greatest endurance of...
Page 149 - ... self-control that enables us not to betray our inner feeling through a change in our expression, the measured steps with which we are taught to walk into the hideous jaws * He who would seek perfection must carefully observe all hygienic conditions. The rules of diet, the habit of deep breathing, and frei-h air at all times, the wearing of proper clothing that does not impede the free passage of air over the body, the habit of frequent bathing, regular rest, and a sufficient amount of exercise...
Page 75 - The Japanese eat fresh air with even more gusto than they do food. The samurai of old, rose in the morning to pass out into the open air, there to take a number of deep breaths. The time of the morning chosen was just as the sun was coming up."-—H. Irving Hancock, in "Japanese Physical Training.
Page iv - The aim has been to give a perfect, composite whole of the essential principles of health and of the tricks of attack and defence that are needed by the perfect physical man or woman.
Page iii - Japanese system of physical training is so ancient that its origin dates before the time when the authentic history of these people began.
Page 67 - Japanese student of jiu-jitsu, when he finds a slight illness coming on, does not go to the doctor. The author is in the habit of drinking, normally, a gallon of water in twenty-four hours. Very recently he was threatened with tonsilitis. By practically abstaining from food, and by adding a half-gallon of water a day to the usual quantity, he prevented the threatened illness without resort to any "medicines.
Page 64 - Summer drinks, composed of shaved ice covered with fruit syrups, have crept into the life of the larger Japanese cities, but their use is not extensive, and the student of a jiu-jitsu school will have none of them. He is better taught.