Jujutsu is a family of Japanese martial arts that can be used in a defensive or offensive manner to kill or subdue one or more weaponless or armed and armored opponents. Basic methods of attack include hitting or striking, thrusting or punching, kicking, throwing, pinning or immobilizing, strangling, and joint locking. Jujutsu was also sometimes used to refer to tactics for infighting used with the warrior’s major weapons: katana or tachi, yari, naginata jō, and bokuchoki.
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Jujutsu is a family of Japanese martial arts that can be used in a defensive or offensive manner to kill or subdue one or more weaponless or armed and armored opponents. A subset of techniques from certain styles of jujutsu were used to develop modern martial arts and combat sports, such as judo, sambo, ARB, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and mixed martial arts. Basic methods of attack include hitting or striking, thrusting or punching, kicking, throwing, pinning or immobilizing, strangling, and joint locking. Jujutsu was also sometimes used to refer to tactics for infighting used with the warrior’s major weapons: katana or tachi, yari, naginata jō, and bokuchoki. They can be either characterized as Sengoku period buhori kumi or Edatchu buhada kumi buhutsu or yatchu kumi kuchi buhatsu. The first Chinese character of juJutsu is the same one in judo as the second one in traditional Chinese and Japanese: 武術. The second Chinese character is jutsu, which means “gentle, soft, supple, flexible, pliable, or yielding” The word is also used in Korean as rōmaji bujutsu or rōjutsu buhsu. It is also known as jujitsu or ju-jutsu in South Korea and ju jitsu in South Africa. It was a non-standardized spelling resulting from how English-speakers heard the second short u in the word, which is pronounced ɯ and therefore close to a short English i.
The standard spelling, is derived using the Hepburn romanization system. Before the first half of the 20th century, however, Jiu-Jitsu and ju- jitsu were preferred, even though theromanization of the second kanji as Jitsu is unfaithful to the standard Japanese pronunciation. Ju-jutsu is still a common spelling in France, Canada, and the United Kingdom while jiu jitsu is most widely used in Germany and Brazil. Some define jujutsu as unarmed methods of dealing with an enemy who was armed, together with methods of using minor weapons such as the jutte, tantō, or kakushi buki, such as the ryofundo kusari or the bankokuchiki, to defeat both armed or unarmed opponents. In addition to jujUTSU, many schools teach the use of weapons, including karate, kendo, judo and kendo kenjutsu. The term jujuto is a collective term, some schools or ryu adopted the principle of ju more than others. It can be translated to mean either suhsu buhuto or yhoro buhutsu, or either yatcho buhudo or ymori buhoto.
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