The management of the SAJJF shall be vested in the Executive Board. The Chairperson will chair the Executive Board and Secretariat. The Executive Board shall consist of the Chairperson and the Style Heads or their representatives from each style of Ju-Jitsu practised in the SAJJF. A Vice-chairperson shall be elected from the affiliated members at the Annual General Meeting.
The history of the martial art of JuJitsu can be traced back over 2500 years. JuJitsu (Ju - Gentle, Jitsu - Art) developed from many individual teachings that either originated in Japan or found their way to Japan from other Oriental countries.
Mikonosuke Kawaishi was born in Kyoto in 1899. Having studied Ju-jitsu at the Dai Nippon Butokukai (Greater Japan Association of Martial Virtue) in Kyoto a form of Aiki-ju-jitsu he left Japan in the mid-1920's to travel and see the world.
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