Joseph Art

Josef Art (* 1942 in Bavaria ) is a German Ju-Jutsuka , non-fiction author and sports official.

Career

Since his youth, Josef Art practiced various martial arts such as judo and Taekwon-Do . In 1969 he became a Ju-Jutsuka and founded the Budo Club Preith in 1975. As a sports functionary, he represented the Bavarian state group Ju-Jutsu from 1973 to 1976 as 2nd chairman and as 1st chairman from 1976 to 1991 in the German Dan College (DDK). In 1979 he published the standard work Ju-Jutsu - Modern Self-Defense , which was topical until the 1990s. His second work Ju-Jutsu Praxis was published in 1983 .

From 1983 to 1991 he was sports manager and regional coach in Bavaria, from 1980 to 1993 national coach . He founded the competition in ju-jutsu. To this end, he created a set of rules that was used in the 1980s. He worked as a federal referee in Germany. As a police officer, he actively participated in the use of the Ju-Jutsu in the Bavarian police service, was a police officer and training manager in the SV .

In 2012, Art was awarded the 9th Dan Ju-Jutsu for his life's work.

Works

• Judo, police handles, ju-jutsu . Self published in 1973.
• Ju-Jutsu: the most modern self-defense . Self-published 1979.
• Ju-Jutsu practice . Self-published 1983. (Third edition: 1990, ISBN 3-9800837-1-3 )

Web links

• Josef Art ( memento from March 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the DJJV website