What is Jujitsu?

This video is my attempt to explain jujitsu to an adult who may be thinking about taking a beginning jujitsu class, but is not sure what it involves. I try to very briefly answer the questions: "What is jujitsu?" and "What is Small Circle jujitsu?" by explaining my own experience and using clips from training at my school. If you're curious about the children's class, see my other video.

As I say in the video, no disrespect of anyone else's art is intended. No art is right for everyone, and every art is right for someone. Find an art that works for you. This video should help you decide if jujitsu is your art.


I'm told that Small Circle Jujitsu is a registered trademark. Check out their website for details.

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• Chris
• Peterson
• adults
• martial
• arts

[hbolle00]

nice video,

im from Denmark, and im thinking about taking Ju-Jitsu classes..

but like you, im kinda fat.. so i'd like to ask you, does it matter if you are fat or ...

Thanks,

[fredpatterson00]

@hbolle00 No it doesn't matter. Start slow and soon you'll be shedding kilos. Good luck!

[JumperFrank]

in my opinion any 'master' or person with a belt that is 'higher' than the white belt should all be willing to wear a white belt! It is a way of showing respect to the art, and admitting you can't be a real master of the art, since you can always make improvements! If you'd refuse to do it, in my opinion you're not worthy of wearing any kind of belt. You earn the belts!

[poolboyinla]

Good video...I do bjj but I wouldn't mind training in this as well.

[redzer06]

have done kickboxing for a good while but not that into it as much these days, there's jujitsu classes very close to my house so going to try get really into it after christmas hopefully get a few belts, thanks for the video.

[kokyjabn]

@pithikoulis I don't remember what did i say and can't find my comment lol. Capoeira is cool, and it makes you strong and flexible as you are saying. And is perfect to find girls :D the best martial art to find girls I think.

[pithikoulis]

@kokyjabn I disagree. I have taken capoeira classes for a long time and I am going to switch to JiuJitsu now. Capoeira is good if you like to become flexible and increase endurance and stamina. It's a real workout and you also learn to do air tricks which I personally loved. However capoeira is not a combat art IMO. JiuJitsu is something you can use in real life. It also has a nice history background(just as capoeira).

[mrdubcrazy]

in my style of Ju Jitsu trad/modern we have people who used to train kickboxing taekwondo karate judo you name it, they say they wanted to learn self defense.

[NinjAngel48]

@alphamonX I don't give a shit about Eddie Bravo. We all do jiu-jitsu for a reason, I stated part of mine. Are not we all entitled to our own opinions? Just so you know I can kick over heads.

[44excalibur]

@RsGhost1 The Japanese call it Jujutsu, not Jiu Jitsu. Jitsu means "full" in Japanese Shiatsu therapy.

[44excalibur]

@alphamonX True, which is why there is no one school of Jujutsu, but many. Judo founder Jigoro Kano learned from the Tenjin Shin'yo-ryu school of Jujutsu, which used more strikes to put an opponent off-balance and was more flexible(no armor) than the older schools. The Yoshin-ryu school of Jujutsu influenced not only Judo, but also Wado Ryu Karate, which both work without armor. Jujutsu just adapts to different circumstances, just like you don't need a gi to use Judo and BJJ.

[RsGhost1]

Japanese Jiu-Jitsu is what I'm talking about

[kokyjabn]

@RsGhost1 capoeira has more women, also beauti and young women... capoeira is the best for flirting. Jiujitsu is the best to defense yourself.