![]() The hammerlock Shinya Aoki put on Mizuto Hirota would be used all the time – a thug with a shattered shoulder isn’t going to be doing anything dangerous for a while…Power guillotines like Scott Jorgensen pulled on Chad George would be splenderiffic for Batman, as he doesn’t want to kill anyone - just maim them or put them to sleep. He’s just going to blast the bad guy in the face, stand up, break the guard and continue to use his mobility and skills to cause chaos. He’s not going to be doing the usual progressions from guard to half guard to side control to mount to armbar. The Dark Knight strikes from the shadows and foments chaos whenever he can - so he can pick off bad guys at his leisure.īatman is not going to be able to do a regular “mata leao” RNC with the spikes protruding from his glove, he’s going to have to do the short choke (as Anderson Silva did on Dan Henderson). I think Brazilian jiu jitsu would have to be somewhat modified for Batman to employ, but it would be a key component of his combat style. Takedowns would be immensely changed and more dangerous due to the angles and speed that the Batman can come from. Throws most commonly seen in judo would end fights. ![]() Of course, he’s going to be using concepts taken from jiu jitsu and wrestling (and not just the Brazilian version). In this regard, his use of his two primary disciplines is very similar to what Jean-Joseph Renaud suggested when he wrote his 1910 self-defense manual La Défense Dans La Rue,” Jiu-jitsu is the art of defence in the clinch, boxing is the art of avoiding the clinch, of repulsing the adversary with the foot or the fist.” Sometime though he is forced to engage at extremely close ranges and at such times he depends on his jiu jitsu skills. ![]() But the style most familiar to the authors, Bob Kane and Bill Finger, would have been Kodokan judo and it seem most likely that the jiu-jitsu presented by Batman is this.Īs we discussed in part 1, Batman prefers to stay out of the reach of his opponent, using his boxing skills to attack and finish them before they ever have a chance to grapple or counterstrike themselves. During his world traveling days it is seems likely that not only would have he spent time at the Kodokan itself, but that he also educated himself in a few of the other schools of jiu-jitsu, such as Shinden Fudo Ryū, Tenjin Shin’yō-ryū and Aki-Jitsu or possibly even spending time in Brazil to learn under Carlos, Helio, or George Gracie. That is not to say that Batman didn’t study another school of jiu-jitsu outside of judo. Such a martial art would have not only caught the eye of Bruce Wayne, but also Kane and Finger. In 1939, when Batman first appeared, judo, while still viewed as a somewhat exotic martial art, had proven effective enough with its throws and holds that not only could schools and instructors be found all across the United States, but it was even being taught by and to some police forces for use in disarming and apprehending suspects. Having established that he knows jiu-jitsu, the question then becomes “what do we mean when we say ‘ Jiu-jitsu’“? At that time the name was very much a blanket term for all the different schools of Japanese jacket wrestling, and was synonymous with jujitsu, jujutsu and even judo. But even before it is ever named, it was revealed that Batman was well versed in various throws and submission holds which so happened to bare an uncanny resemblance to the ones found in the “Gentle Art ”. Along with boxing, jiu-jitsu was one of the first martial arts to ever be identified as being used by Batman, being mentioned by name in Detective Comics #36 (1940), where he uses an “old jiu-jitsu trick” to escape from beneath the villainous Prof.
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