I hope someone can answer this. I was talking to a judo friend of my and this came up in my mind post-conversation.
OK Kano Sensei created a fine art he called Judo, for all rights and purposes, from different arts. Some of those arts, it is my understanding are from battlefield grappling arts- for general purposes. That is more specifically you grab the armor of the enemy and throw. These arts indepentant where effective as themselves. Now Kano Sensei combined several or more of these arts, with the same intention of grabbing clothing and throwing. Why did he feel the need to combine effective grappling arts to make an effective art? I understand he modified them? If this is true why, if the arts where effective themselves.
I hope this is clear, it a tough question to get precise. Basically why re-invent the wheel per se. Did he see flaws in these arts where he could improve, probably, but, why did he create a similar art that consisted of grabbing and throw when the arts he took from where already very effective, why didn't he just improve on that one art technically. This is outside of what I heard that he wanted to preserve the founding arts.
I know Judo defeated many jujutsu arts where any of these arts a part of Judo and where these arts randomly picked or selected?
In regards,