u/Affectionate_Can1040

how similar are they? and in term of diversity in schools and methods for teaching which one get the cake? I know koryu still alive and well today same for hema too, but like which one more or less rely on fragmented documents or finding authentic manuals to teach them?

Japan have multiple martial arts that carrying the koryu (tradition pre meiji era) martial arts traditions well into modern day, fine examples include jujutsu -> judo and judo to bjj, sambo, etc, karate also has a long history of continuation traces back to medieval time into modern day… also kenjutsu -> kendo etc you guess the premise, but when it come to Europe hema‘s have to be reconstructed from fragments and old manuals that aren‘t widely and readily available unlike say judo kendo karate or even old bujutsu.

How come nobody in Europe thought about preservation of the techniques and established some sort of institution in order not for them to get lost through time and have to be reconstructed like today? the only examples of European “martial arts“ that still survive today is catch wrestling boxing and wrestling, tho I don’t even consider these to be hema related since the hema as a term just become any sort of fragmented medieval European techniques that have to be reconstructed, Japan not to an extent like this either

I find it weird that the technique have a documented evidence in classical jujutsu books yet somehow cant find it anywhere else outside of japan back then, do medieval Europe or other parts of the world documented these kind of techniques so that they have manual that illustrate them? and not just Kano basami either but triangle choke and knee bar also have a well established Japanese books etc