Quote: (10-28-2016 01:24 PM)Parzival Wrote:Anyone can feel free to point out my mistakes but I believe there's basically three types of jiu-jitsu or jujutsu (alternative spellings) around these days:
Its not BJJ its Japanese JJ. I would even say its German JJ because it has a tradition since the 70s in Germany and get adopt quite a lot for pure self defence. Many police units use it. The place where I want to go is a Police sports club. So the purpose is self defence. I did JJ when I was 10 or 11 for a year or so. First we did learn to fall correct what I absolute disliked after all the van damme movies I watched. Only the loser land on the ground. I also did some wing tsung. They over also Krav Maga and Kali at the sports club. I consider Ju Jitus are more complete system then Krav Maga thats why I prefer JJ.
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There is a video. It mainly talk about the self defence lectures. The young girl said her mom already did it and now she too because of all the refugee attacks. Also they mention in the past they had 2 lectures like this in the year and now 2 in the month.
I just will do it, 2 times a week and when I get a little used to it I can also pick up boxing once or twice per week again. And still lifting my weights.
-brazilian jiu-jitsu
-traditional japanese jujutsu
-european jujutsu
From there on european jujutsu is divided into a few substyles based on the country and founder and traditional japanese jujutsu usually refers to aikijujutsu, the father art of aikido and is consequently mostly stand-up grappling. Any other traditional japanese or okinawan based jujutsu styles are more or less obscure to the extent that they do not have enough distribution to have gained a negative or positive reputation. In the age of MMA where aikido is mostly seen as a joke, aikijujutsu is consequently seen as suboptimal as well due to its limitations.
European jujutsu (german, finnish etc.) is a bit like krav maga but without the military emphasis and with more diversity in techniques; cheap shots are not emphasized over solid technique and competition is encouraged where some techniques may be illegal but national championships are held.
As such european jujutsu styles do not differ drastically from many if not most styles of hapkido for example, which would purport to be the korean equivalent of a complete fighting system, equally derived from japanese jujutsu/judo background, only with more emphasis on taekwondo style flashy kicks.
The criticism of european jujutsu I have seen, which is probably applicable to many styles, is that they feed practitioners a large collection of tricks to draw from and consequently the students fail to truly excell in any one fighting range or skill. This allegation receives some support from competitions where guys with strong backgrounds in one physical art (eg.judo) reign supreme against far more highly ranked jujutsu guys.