At age fourteen, he moved in with his older brothers who lived and taught Jiu-Jitsu in a house in Botafogo, a borough of Rio de Janeiro.
He would run up a flight of stairs and have fainting spells, and no one could figure out why. Helio Gracie, the youngest son of Gastão and Cesalina Gracie’s eight children (three were girls), was always a very physically frail child. Carlos learned for a few years and eventually passed his knowledge to his brothers. To show his gratitude, Maeda offered to teach traditional Japanese Jiu-Jitsu to Gastão’s oldest son, Carlos Gracie. In Brazil, in the northern state of Para, he befriended Gastão Gracie, an influential businessman, who helped Maeda get established. In 1914, Maeda was given the opportunity to travel to Brazil as part of a large Japanese immigration colony. He was born in 1878, and became a student of Judo (Kanoʼs Jiu-Jitsu) in 1897. Maeda was a champion of Jiu-Jitsu and a direct student of Kano, at the Kodokan in Japan. Japanese Jiu-Jitsu (practiced as Judo) was introduced to the Gracie family in Brazil around 1914 by Esai Maeda, who was also known as Conde Koma. It wasn’t until the sport art of Judo and the combat art of Jiu-Jitsu were introduced to the Gracie family in Brazil that the real art of Gracie Jiu Jitsu would be brought to life again. The more traditional combat schools were simply practicing techniques no longer suitable for modern day combat, and with no way to safely test them, practicing these arts became like swimming without water. He criticized traditional martial arts as being ineffective. Bruce Lee was actually a student of Judo and did many studies on grappling while he was alive. This lack of reality created years of confusion in the martial arts community, a confusion that legendary Bruce Lee would later refer to as the ‘classical mess’. But these arts were missing essential pieces of what the complete art of Jiu-Jitsu originally held. Eventually, in Japan many different variations of Jiu-Jitsu took shape, including Karate, Aikido, and Judo. When the days of the Samurai came to an end, the gun replaced the sword, and new sportive ways to practice martial arts were developed.
The Gracie connection and Gracie Jiu jitsu History
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