Sublime

To Matt Furey, for devising the Combat Conditioning system Rain uses to maintain his edge, and for sharing some of his incomparable grappling expertise to make Rain’s neck cranks the deadly weapons they are.

While not a samurai, Jigoro trained in martial arts and became well known for his meticulous recording of the jujutsu techniques he deemed most effective. He described his work as “keeping what I felt should be kept, and discarding what I felt should be discarded.”