CHAPTER XI
THINGS THAT THE STUDENT CAN TEACH HIMSELF—HOW AGILITY IS ACQUIRED
In the preceding chapters there has been given all that is essential to the preliminary work of the jiu-jitsu student. One who has mastered in all its details the work described, and who has kept at it with assiduity, will find himself in greatly improved health and much better able to cope with an adversary in actual combat.
The Japanese student is required to devote several months to the foundation work. In his earlier months of practice he is kept mostly at the feats whose aim is the development of muscle and endurance, and he is given only enough combat work to keep up his interest in the study of physical well-being.
After the first few months of practice the student is taught to think more for himself.
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