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Today there are a number of organisations throughout the world who claim to teach martial arts based on Abbe's theories of Kyushindo. Several of these can trace their heritage to George Mayo, a French Judoka who had developed his own system of non-competitive judo, which incorporated elements of yoga and which he named Ju-judo (the gentle, gentle way).
Mayo was not in any way connected to Abbe's British Judo Council, but he found Kyu-Shin-Do an appealing concept. Mayo controversially reinvented Kyu-Shin-Do as his own spiritual philosophy and renamed his organisation the Kyushindo International Judo Association. The claim that Abbe was involved in the creation of Mayo's system has been strongly refuted by Abbe's students. The Kyushindo International Judo Association later fragmented, giving rise to various splinter groups including the Zen Judo organisations and the Mayoshindo Karate organisation.
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