Definition

The name Yawara-Jitsu and its modern translation (scientific personal defence), comes from the millenary Yawara or "agility art", from which have arisen various schools such as Wa-Jitsu, Tai-Jitsu, Kumuishi or Kempo.

Origin

After a long period of gestation, Yawara-Jiatsu appeared in 1975, in the facilities of the legendary gymnasium Toyama in Málaga, founded in 1964 and nowadays sadly closed.
The origin of this modern system of personal defence is the answer to the necessity of using many self-defence techniques against various aggressions, with a proven efficiency, learnt throughout a pedagogy adapted to the western mentality.
The selection of the best techniques for self-defence, taken from various martial arts (Judo, Karate, Aikido, Kung-Fu, Thai Boxing, Wrestling, etc…), their purge (taking into account the articulate, muscle and nervous behaviour), the application of physics rules that monitor lever mechanics and the training based on the theories and principles of Paulov about "conditioned reflexes" to ease the assimilation and the spontaneity in a real combat, compose a scientific system of self-defence, rational and progressive, that attains the maximum efficiency with the minor effort.