10e dan Ju-Jitsu WBI, EJJU, IJJF, AJBFSA, FFJJBA, WUMA, ATAMA, WBFOMA, IBA,IHF, BI, IBS, KBK, ESJJAS, ASAY, WJJABF, AYBK, HNL
Stefano Surace sensei holds the highest
official Ju Jitsu grade in the world, recognized in Japan:
10th dan Menkyo-Kaiden, member of Nippon Seibukan.
Seibukan is the official japanese Academy of Martial Arts,
the most important worldwide Budo institution, the only one
recognized by UNESCO.
Surace sensei is also:
- The world technical director and 10th dan
Menkyo Kaiden of International Ju Jitsu Federation
(IJJF - Kyoto);
- Technical director for Europe, 10th dan and
member of honor with life of European Ju Jitsu Union
(EJJU - London);
- Chair and 10th dan of World Butokukai Intitute
(WBI);
- President of honor with life and 10th dan of Kaizen
ryu (Madrid);
- Member of honor with life and 10th dan of
Hanshi no Iinkai
- Member of honor
with life and 10th dan of Hall of
fame
- Member of honor with life of British Art Martial
Federation.
Seibukan officially expressed to him its own recognition
for its work to the training of young people.
Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic decorated
him for his merits of journalist, of teacher of the young
people and of creator of champions.
Three of its pupils gained the
World Cup of Ju Jitsu (free fights without
categories of weight) in 1993, 1994 and 1997.
Currently, there is no other 10th dan in Ju Jitsu
recognized by Seibukan.
This is the first time that the highest official graduate
of a japanese martial art is not a Japanese but an
Occidental.
The Dai Nippon Butokukai was the Imperial Martial Virtue
Association until the end of WW2. The best masters of the
11 most important Ju Jitsu schools were brought together
there and were in charge of elaborating a synthesis of the
most efficient techniques of each school.
Particularly rational and structured, this «supreme method»
was only taught to a selected élite which refused to ensure
its diffusion after 1945, for the sake of coherence with
its Japanese traditional ethics.
By an exceptional combination of circumstances detailed in
Surace’s book (available in French) «La plume et la
main vide», the last holder of this method is now
Stefano Surace.
This famous Italian journalist has decided to start
teaching in order to preserve his knowledge and keep it as
part of the universal patrimony.
