You will make yourself unpopular. You may bring jujitsu into discredit. And you may cause injuries.
Take all the practice you want at the right time, and with people who are similarly inclined.


THE SCOPE OF THIS COURSE
Although jujitsu matches have been occasionally mentioned, none of the tricks used in this course, with the exception of the strangle holds in Book Seven, could be used in a jujitsu match.
This course has taught the simplest and most effective ways of dealing with an armed or unarmed aggressor, whose intentions are to kill, maim, or rob. In addition, it has taught many tricks by which you may take prisoner, or disarm, an enemy without going the length of injuring or killing.
It has introduced you to this study by the use of movements with which you are acquainted, or which at least are simple. It uses the familiar as a stepping stone to the unfamiliar.
In this course each trick is practiced separately and formally, it being arranged beforehand who will act as aggressor.
My Japanese friends may criticize this course for containing matters extraneous to jujitsu (particularly the theory of Stahara), which were never taught me in Japan, but I believe this system will give quicker results in learning the art than any yet advised.


THE SCOPE OF THE NEXT COURSE
The next course teaches specifically the throws of jujitsu. It will teach you how to fall. It will teach the hip throw, by means of which a little woman can soon learn to lift and throw a heavy man. It will teach you the trips (there are seven different trips), the swiftest and most effective part of jujitsu wrestling. It will teach the Stomach Throw, wherein you go down on your own back, place the sole of one foot on opponent's stomach, and throw him over your head onto the floor behind you. It will teach the groundwork of jujitsu, the collar-chokes and arm-locks used in matches, which will bring victory whether you or he are on your back. The second course introduces you to competitive jujitsu, wherein either party may attack as he pleases with any of the tricks allowed in Stahara wrestling.


VALEDICTION
Student of this course, whosoever ye be, of whatever country, creed, or color, you are under an obligation to humanity at large, as well as to me, the humble medium that conveyed the knowledge, never to use the power you have acquired in a dishonest or dishonorable cause, or for a selfish purpose.
Let these exercises train not only your bodies, but also your chivalrous instincts, your sense of honor.
Though they give you the ability of a knight of old to rely on and use your own good right arm, they will fall short of their purpose if they fail equally to train you in the ethics of the knightly code - to battle for the right, and to defend the oppressed.
For the enemy of society at large, the Apache [e.g., an urban thug], the cutthroat, the assassin, we have in reserve tactics which will help to level the odds, since he is armed, and we are not.
In an unhappy struggle with those from whose opinions we differ, but who are actuated by motives as honorable as our own, defeat would be preferable to using foul tactics. This is simply the application of the larger rule which has actuated all good men, patriots, soldiers, citizens, throughout the ages: "Death before dishonor."
"It isn't whether we win or lose, but how we play the game."

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