I've started taking Jiu-Jitsu...

[White Warlock]

Ah, okay... found what the tangent to this thread was all about.

Juijitsu- usually focussed on grappeling with a mix of striking. pretty well rounded.

There are a multitude of different jujutsus, some drastically different than others. The main difference seems to stem on what they concentrated on. I.e., whether they focus on throws, locks, strikes, or groundwork.

 

A side. Helio Gracie learned from a Japanese jujutsu instructor living in Brazil, as did the elder Machado. This small niche of students found that specializing on groundwork made a huge difference when it came to dealing with challengers (mixed martial arts), and thus bjj was born.

 

But, there are many jujutsus in Japan that focus on groundwork (and did prior to the bjj fad), so it is unfair to say that the Gracies or Machados created it. All they did was work on what was previously created by Japanese masters, and essentially put their name to it.

juijitsu was the base on which Judo and Aikido were developed.

 

Aikido- VERY soft art. no strikes are taught (traditionally). uses momentum and circulair motions to throw or imobilize opponents.

Just to smack this one down.

 

judo, as i was earlier reminded, was born from 3 different jujutsu systems. Aikido, on the other hand, was born from aikijutsu (not jujutsu) and incorporated kendo techniques.

 

Also, there are strikes in aikido. Strikes are often included as a precursor to a technique, as a means to disrupt or to create imbalance. Essentially, aikido is the art of capitalizing on imbalance, whether the person is imbalanced by their own actions, or whether the aikidoist induces the imbalance... it is relevant only in the respects of what techniques would be applied.

 

Also, momentum is not quite the right word, and is only slightly less correct than calling the strikes in karate a use of momentum. A stationary target can be confronted by an aikidoist and the generation of motion in the uke can be developed, rather than encouraged.

 

More appropriately, it should be called 'accelerating motion.' An aikidoist capitalizes on, or creates, imbalance and then encourages that imbalance to create motion. He then further encourages the motion, accelerating it. And in many, but not all, techniques he then interrupts that motion by posing either an immovable force or a contra-motive force (clothesline anyone?).

[Venezolano]

Gracies modified the JuJutsu they recieved from Maeda and adapted some things of it, and that's how it was created