Peter Farrar Sensei
1960 - 1997

Peter Farrar Sensei was one of the founders of The Jitsu Foundation.

Born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, he began his study of jiu jitsu in 1969 at the age of nine, under the instruction of Brian Graham Shihan. In 1979, Peter moved to Plymouth and opened the Plymouth Polytechnic Jiu Jitsu Club. Peter had a clear vision and goal of founding an association and expanding the style across the country.

Peter's ability, drive and enthusiasm produced a number of instructors who quickly spread the style to a number of UK universities. From these beginnings, the style spread rapidly to other universities and to non-university based venues throughout the UK, and then other countries.

Peter had a significant impact on the style. The emphasis of his jiu jitsu differed from his teacher's, and Peter emphasized the aiki aspects of the style.

However, his greatest impact was on the development of the teaching style and training methods which are fundamental to our style. Peter designed and wrote the initial versions of our instructor training program and had a dramatic impact upon the way we now teach jiu jitsu.

Peter is credited, along with Brian Graham, as being a co-founder of The Jitsu Foundation and he directly taught the current leaders of The Jitsu Foundation. It is without doubt that his drive and enthusiam played a key role in the expansion of the style across the UK.

Farrar Sensei made a couple of visits to Jitsu Canada, including presiding over the first Shorinji Kan grading examination held in Canada. Sadly, Peter died of cancer in 1997 at the age of thirty-seven.