Jiu Jitsu - The Ancient Martial Arts

Jiu Jitsu is one of the ancient form of martial artstaught break falling skills to allow them to safely
training. Jujutsu or Jiu-Jitsu, literally means the "artpractice otherwise dangerous throws. Break falling
of softness". Japanese have different martial artsskills also help you on the street.
styles, armed and unarmed techniques. All theseAs a "soft" art, jujitsu systems generally employ
martial art styles collectively, are called Jiu Jitsu. Jiuthe principles of balance, leverage, and
jutsu techniques evolved among the samurai ofmomentum to overcome opponents. This is in
feudal Japan as a method for defeating an armedcontrast to "hard" systems (for example, some
and armored opponent without weapons. Thestyles of karate or taekwondo) that tend to
samurais had to learn Jiu Jitsu to be able to pin,emphasize developing power, strength, and speed.
joint lock or throw the opponent, because theAlthough there is some diversity in the actual look
striking was not useful against an armoredand techniques of the various traditional jujutsu
opponent.systems, there are significant technical similarities
Japanese jujutsu systems typically place morecommon to all schools.
emphasis on throwing, immobilizing and pinning,In conclusion, Jiu Jitsu training can lead you to
joint-locking, choking, and strangling techniques asbecome a soft but deadly martial artist. It has so
compared with other martial arts systems suchmany varity of tools that you can use according
as karate.to situation, in the gym or on the street. There
In jujutsu, practitioners train in the use of manyare many ways you can learn Jiu Jitsu, and in my
potentially fatal moves. However, becauseopinion, the easiest way is Fitness Jiu Jitsu
students mostly train in a non-competitiveProgram.
environment, risk is minimized. Students are