Professor Wally Jay is pleased to announce his retirement and the passing on of the Grandmastership of his creation, Small Circle Jujitsu to his son and heir, Professor Leon Jay. Leon Jay has publicly stated that his father will continue to be the great creative martial artist he has always been, but needs the leisure time to fully recover his health.
Since his heart bypass operation in 1999, Professor Wally Jay has become concerned that Small Circle Jujitsu should not be beset by the kind of political problems experienced by the martial arts families of close friends and contemporaries lost to us in recent years, where no clear inheritor had been formally selected. He is fortunate to have a worthy successor in his son, Leon who has expressed his hope that his father will be available to advise him for many years to come.
With the Grandmastership, Professor Wally wishes it to be clear that all authority within the system worldwide passes to his successor. It is significant that with the headmastership of the system, the legal title to the name of Small Circle Jujitsuä was also passed to Leon Jay. When the Professor dissolved Small Circle Jujitsu International last year, he explicitly stated that all personal ranks bestowed by him would be honored in perpetuity. However, all future ranks will be in the gift of the new Grandmaster, and existing rank holders can only bestow rank in Small Circle with the official approval of the second-generation head of system.
Professor Leon has created the Professor Jay’s Small Circle Jujitsu organization, which will oversee all official Small Circle activities, from syllabus and ranking to the promotion and dissemination of the system. Professor Lee Eichelberger, US Technical Director, will be managing the development in the US. The aims will be to encourage the expansion of the direct student body of the style, its continued development, and ensure the continued positive image of the Small Circle family. In the near future the official web site will be restructured to show the current official status of all teaching rank students of the style.
Both Professors have asked that all schools affiliated with the system should
display this statement publicly, complete and unedited, either in hard-copy
on the notice boards, or in a place of prominence on their web sites, so that
there should be no confusion.
This page was developed and is maintained by Robert Gale for Professor Jay.
Email: RobGale@SmallCircleJujitsu.com