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About Brazilian Jiu Jitsu What makes BJJ so different? Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is widely regarded as the world's most effective ground fighting (grappling) art. While it has been evolving since the early 1900s as a martial art, street fighting system, and sport, the last ten years have brought it the most popularity in America and abroad as a result of globally distributed media coverage of victories in numerous challenge matches and mixed martial arts competitions pitting athletes with mastery of various martial arts. It is a safe yet highly effective combat system. It is considered relatively safe because it does not employ striking (kicks, punches, elbows, etc.), yet it is effective because of its ability to respond well to numerous types of realistic situations. As has been said many times about fights: they almost always start standing, but end up quickly on the ground. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) provides unlimited avenues to success from standing and ground positions. A...

Judo ( 柔道 jūdō ? , meaning "gentle way") is a modern martial art , combat and Olympic sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎). Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin , or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke . Strikes and thrusts by hands and feet as well as weapons defenses are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms ( kata , 形) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice ( randori , 乱取り). A judo practitioner is called a judoka . The philosophy and subsequent pedagogy developed for judo became the model for other modern Japanese martial arts that developed from koryū ( 古流 ? , traditional schools) . The worldwide spread of judo has led to the development of a number of offshoots such as Sambo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu . Judo 柔道 Kyuzo Mifune (left) and Jigoro Kano (...

Brazilian jiu-jitsu ( / dʒ uː ˈ dʒ ɪ t s uː / ; Portuguese:  [ˈʒiw ˈʒitsu] , [ˈʒu ˈʒitsu] , [dʒiˈu dʒiˈtsu] ) ( BJJ ; Portuguese : jiu-jitsu brasileiro ) is a martial art , combat sport , and a self defense system that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting . Brazilian jiu-jitsu was formed from Kodokan Judo ground fighting ( newaza ) fundamentals that were taught to Carlos Gracie and Luiz França by Mitsuyo Maeda and Soshihiro Satake . Brazilian jiu-jitsu eventually came to be its own art through the experimentations, practices, and adaptation from the Judo knowledge of Carlos and Hélio Gracie, who then passed their knowledge on to their extended family. BJJ promotes the concept that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger assailant by using proper technique, leverage, and most notably, taking the fight to the ground, and then applying joint-locks and chokeholds to defeat the opponent. BJJ training can be used for sport gra...

Jujutsu ( / dʒ uː ˈ dʒ uː t s uː / joo- JOOT -soo ; Japanese : 柔術, jūjutsu   listen   ( help · info ) ) is a Japanese martial art and a method of close combat for defeating an armed and armored opponent in which one uses no weapon or only a short weapon. [1] [2] The word jujutsu can be spelled as ju-jitsu / jujitsu , jiu jitsu , ju-jutsu . " Jū " can be translated to mean "gentle, soft, supple, flexible, pliable, or yielding." " Jutsu " can be translated to mean "art" or "technique" and represents manipulating the opponent's force against himself rather than confronting it with one's own force. [1] Jujutsu developed to combat the samurai of feudal Japan as a method for defeating an armed and armored opponent in which one uses no weapon, or only a short weapon. [3] Because striking against an armored opponent proved ineffective, practitioners learned that the most efficient methods for neutralizing an enemy took the fo...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about hand-to-hand combat. For other uses of ground work, see Groundwork (disambiguation). Ground fighting (also ground work or ground game) is hand-to-hand combat which takes place while the combatants are on the ground, generally involving grappling. The term is commonly used in mixed martial arts and other combat sports, as well as various forms of martial arts to designate the set of techniques employed by a combatant that is on the ground, as opposed to techniques employed in stand-up fighting. It is the main focus of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and is featured in varying amounts in Catch wrestling, Judo, Sambo, Shoot wrestling and other styles of wrestling. Similarly to clinch fighting, ground fighting implies that the combatants are at a very close range, usually involving one or both combatants grappling the opponent using various grappling holds. Depending on the positioning of the combatants, the proximity can allow for techniques...