Jiu-Jitsu teaches you how to disembody your leg?!

(From "Spotlight Comics" number 1, 1944.)

8 Responses to Jiu-Jitsu teaches you how to disembody your leg?!

  1. CKnap says:

    That is the strangest comic panel ever. I take jiu jitsu and I was never taught to kick someone’s leg/foot.

  2. Professor Anthrax says:

    I’ve seen high kicks before, but what are these guys doing, auditioning for the Radio City Rockettes?

  3. Niall Mor says:

    ♪♫One . . . singular sensation♪♫
    And kick, and one and two, and kick . . .

  4. punkjay says:

    It never pays to kick yourself in the face.

  5. Herr D says:

    It looks like a failed portrayal of a leg sweep and then a high kick–which makes no sense at all against one opponent. HEY, WAIT! I met a woman who was paid to kick herself in the face. She did it very gently. She was a contortionist. She was paid the money, rewarded with applause, and punished with requests for her phone number and several lewd comments. (Hey. I only salivated.)

  6. spidercow2012 says:

    “Sweep the leg, Johnny!”

  7. Frevoli says:

    and that was only the first lesson

    seccond lesson, they cover the exploding heart technique

  8. WillyPete says:

    Yes! Back in the forties, MUCH Lost Ancient Knowledge was imparted to masked Western Adventurer types (both Good and Evil), then forgotten! Such was the Superiority of Western Ideals, that techniques that had taken thousands of years to develop could be imparted in but a Single Lesson!
    Remember the famous words of Ed Gruberman, who phrased it thusly: “Yeah, yeah, Patience! How long will it take to learn that?About an hour?”;)