Jujitsu

A fantastic art for Self Defence

Japanese Jujutsu place more emphasis on throwing, immobilizing and pinning, joint-locking, choking, and strangling techniques as compared with other martial arts systems. Striking techniques were seen as less important in most older Japanese systems, since samurai body armour protected against many striking techniques.

This makes the style fantastic for self defence with techniques allow you to deal with most real world situation.

In Jujutsu, practitioners train in the use of many potentially fatal moves. However, because students mostly train in a non-competitive environment, risk is minimized. Students are taught break falling skills to allow them to safely practice otherwise dangerous throws.

In Jujutsu, there are five main sectors of training.

• The first, the Art of Blocking, is used to defend against attacks.
• The second, the Art of the Fulcrum Throw, is employed in modern judo.
• The third, the Art of the Non-fulcrum Throw is employed through throws that involve little or no contact with the opponent.
• The fourth, the Art of Escaping.
• The fifth is the Art of Striking.

Like many martial arts JuJitsu has a physical fitness requirement however the techniques concentrate on maximum effectiveness for minimum effort.

The word Jujutsu can be broken down into two parts. "Ju" is a concept. The idea behind this meaning of Ju is "to be gentle", "to give way", "to yield", "to blend", "to move out of harm's way". "Jutsu" is the principle or "the action" part of Ju-Jutsu. In Japanese this word means science or art.

Advanced Ju-Jitsu includes the use of weapons such as the kubotan, a device which can aid in the implementation of presure point techniques and locks.