Japanese Jujutsu

[JusticeZero]

The comments were a bit annoying on it. My understanding is that jujutsu contains lots of striking techniques. The two most popular filters of jujutsu (Judo and Aikido), as well as the descendant of Judo that people see most often have little in the way of atemi, but those are hardly the whole of the art.

[cheesefrysamurai]

Judo was created as a way of keeping the art alive. Jujutsu was unpopular after the samurai were eradicated. These old jujutsu systems were family traditions.

Jigoro Kano, founder of judo was a jujutsu master.

Ju= supple or soft jutsu=art or science do=way

The jujutsu I took looked like that but part of the finish often included a joint break, not just ground and pound.

Also we were pretty much never that "no holds barred" We were also not that real. Basically, i often knew what sort of strike was going to be thrown and I had to defend.

[Kusotare]

Judo was created as a way of keeping the art alive. Jujutsu was unpopular after the samurai were eradicated. These old jujutsu systems were family traditions.

Jigoro Kano, founder of judo was a jujutsu master.

Ju= supple or soft jutsu=art or science do=way

The jujutsu I took looked like that but part of the finish often included a joint break, not just ground and pound.

Also we were pretty much never that "no holds barred" We were also not that real. Basically, i often knew what sort of strike was going to be thrown and I had to defend.

Kano was the founder of the Kodokan Judo system, but actually at first the school was seen as no more than another jujutsu school.

The word Judo wasn't coined by him though, as it was used in Jikishin-Ryu 150 years prior to kano using the term.

His main reason for creating the Kodokan however was "Seishin Tanren" or spiritual forging.

Not that this aspect wasn't achieved via the traing of some of the clasical systems - but Kano saw the creation of Kodokan Judo as a modern version of the same vehicle.

Sadly the Judo you see today in the olympics is considerably different to Kano's ideal.

K.

[dkdrewkellison]

I like seeing discussion about jujutsu. My philosophy is use a close in strike that transitions to a jujutsu lock.