Jujutsu

Jujutsu (柔術) in japanese means The Gentle Way. Jujutsu Traditional fighting system used by the samurai. It is made up of many armed an un-armed skills and tecniques. The system was traditionaly designed to protect one samurai from another on the battlefield, the art contains many throws, break-falls, weapon teqniques, hand to hand teqniques, locks and chokes. The art was most effective on the battle field, as the art itself was designed to reduce the force applied to hurt an opponent in armor, and to protect himself from it vise versa.

Jujutsu is also known as Ju-Jitsu, Ju Jitsu and Jiujitsu.

Country of origin: Japan

Focus: Hand to Hand combat / weapon teqniques.

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