JuJutsu is a highly effective martial art used by the samurai in ancient Japan
Despite maintaining its spirit and traditional efficiency, the art has been adapted to existing realities. It is a complete art which uses adaptation and flexibility (Ju), allowing a small, weak person to defeat and dominate bigger, stronger aggressors using a vast range of techniques (punches, kicks, elbow and knee jabs), weight transfers, keys, dislocations and strangling. It also allows defence against attacks with weapons, techniques with clubs (tanbo), knives (tanto), nightsticks, the kubotan (kashi-no-bo) medium clubs (hanbo) other arms and fighting techniques on the ground, where many confrontations often end. JuJutsu (the art of flexibility and adapting) is the most efficient of the martial arts and potentially the most destructive. It is one of the oldest martial arts and traces its roots back some 2,500 years! JuJutsu is also the base for many other more modern martial arts, including Judo, Karate and Aikido A person who practices JuJutsu has studied the techniques which form the basis for judo (weight transfer and leverage), aikido (the nerves and binary moment of the attacker), karate (which attacks and retreats) as well as other martial arts. A person who practices this martial art has the option of seriously harming their adversary. They can also inflict serious pain on their opponent without causing any real physical damage. Because of this potential, anyone who practices the art of JuJutsu also adopts a non-violent philosophy. Physical confrontation should be avoided whenever possible. The JuJutsu artist must adopt great self-control to help them to become a better person whilst avoiding unnecessary confrontations. The inner peace and self-confidence acquired make this possible. Patience is the key. A fully trained JuJutsu artist will do everything possible to avoid physical confrontation, not only because they know such a confrontation is unnecessary, but also because they know they would be better able to defend themselves (thus demonstrating such a confrontation was unnecessary), and also because physical confrontation is philosophically degrading as it shows that all other methods of avoiding conflict have failed. Should it be necessary to use JuJutsu against an adversary, the artist must restrict the use of the techniques they know and use the power of good judgment. They must use their knowledge only to protect themselves and anyone else from harm and the time and when withdrawing from the conflict.
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