The term ‘Jūjutsu’ means ‘gentle art’.
This is because the techniques require very little of your own strength and use your opponent’s strength against them.
Rolling and Falling – Ukemi Waza
Falling without injuring yourself is one of the most useful self-defence skills which you’ll be taught at your first session. This part of your training allows you to practice Jiu Jitsu safely and also teaches you how to control your balance and posture. The best part is it looks cool too!
Taking your opponent down to the ground with some force can be a very effective way to end a fight, or to buy you time to get to safety. We start with simple yet efficient leg sweeps and progress to more complex and powerful hip throws and takedowns.
Joint Locking – Kantsetsu Waza
Joint locking is a highly effective way to control an opponent. It’s based on a simple principle: isolate the joint and then apply pressure past it’s range of movement. You will learn how to use these applied to a wide range of self-defence situations.
This part of ever on the ground, effectively controlling and restricting your opponent might be your only way out. We learn a variety of holdowns, locks on the grounds, escapes and chokes to be able to fight with skill when taken down. This aspect is shared with BJJ, with it’s main focus being ground grappling, and to a slightly lesser extent with Judo.
Defenses against armed and skilled opponents
While we don’t specifically focus on any one weapon, we train to effectively disarm and neutralize armed and skilled attackers through a series of scenario trainings and drills. The first weapons we face are more common objects, such as bottles. As training progresses, we move on to deal with weapons like knives or metal chains.
No single technique is fail-proof. For that reason we teach a wide variety of techniques including strikes. All tools in your self-defense arsenal. While we don’t exclusively focus on striking, like Taekwondo or Karate, we practice many different strikes and kicks. We also learn how and when to deliver them to be most effective and compliment other techniques within our arsenal.
Demo Video
…the art of folding clothes with people still inside them…