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Jacques Legrand
Jacques Legrand studied the Kawaishi judo system in Paris France. Mikonosuke Kawaishi came to believe that merely transplanting the teaching methods of Japan to the West was inappropriate. He developed an intuitive style of instruction and a numerical ordering of the techniques that he felt was more suitable for the occidental. This seemed to catch on in France and there was a rapid growth of interest in Judo. Jacques Legrand is a product of that very system and subsequently all of his students. He too develop the belt color ranking.

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