Kiyose Nakae. Jiu-Jitsu Complete

New York: Lyle Stuart, 1958. — 165 p.Jiu Jitsu Complete was written to fill the definite need for a more practical, a more complete and more authoritative course on the subject than has heretofore appeared.
Jiu Jitsu depends not on brute strength but on psychology, knowledge of anatomy, and skill that comes from practice in making certain movements with your body.
Practice is essential. However a few simple tricks are enough to put mastery in the hands of the average person who must defend himself against an assailant who has superior strength or who may be armed.
The book is built with a set of "sessions". Each session contain a theme and various "tricks" (the preferred name for techniques in many older books). To some extent the content may seem to be presented in a rather random fashion, but this is also the case in most martial arts books, even up to this date. Apart from this fact, there is little doubt that many (if not most) of the methods are quite functional. In any way this is a book that is considered a true classic, and you will need it for your library!