Jiu Jitsu - The Art of Fighting

Want to learn some self-defense measures, and get fit and all muscle-toned at the same time? Then you might as well check out the Brazilian Jiu jitsu. The Brazilian Jiu jitsu is one of the most known martial arts, a combat sport in the MMA world, and a means of self defense. The discipline started in the twentieth century patterned to the Japanese martial art, Judo, teaching people to get strength and get past over their big and strong assailants by means of proper techniques.

This article is not making you do the techniques of Jiujitsu. It would be better that before you get into some martial arts training, you’d be oriented with what goes around such discipline.

You would come across different methods during your training. Techniques are first practiced on a non-resisting partner, where you could make adjustments on your performance and assess areas needing some improvement. Isolation sparring is another drill in this martial arts training. This drill, also the positional drill, most likely is done to improve your weak points and get strengthened in them. There are given rules and limited moves. You get into a sparring session with only a couple of moves as instructed and you have to win over your partner using them. And the full sparring, in which the two fighters (you and your partner) submit to a duel, trying to win the fight using techniques of Jiu jitsu.

Ground --- this is the one word you should take note in Jiu jitsu. Keep your opponent to the ground. By doing so, you can easily maneuver round different moves to pull him down and keep him harmless. Ground fighting is one of the highlights of Jiu jitsu when compared with other martial arts. More and more moves are created and made better with Jiu jitsu, making it a preferable type of martial arts training.

In the course of the ground combat, the fighter does all means to be in the controlling position and submit his opponent to him. Ways wouldn’t be just anything that he could think of, but techniques he must utilize to get the hold of the other’s weakness. 

The Full mount position is the most dominant grappling position of all Jiu jitsu positions. The fighter sits on the chest of his opponent with his legs alongside of the body of his opponent. In the strongest form, the fighter locks his opponent with his knees up under into the other’s armpits. This style reduces arm movements, decreasing the opponent’s chances of fighting back. In the course of your martial arts training, you may use the Full mount to apply strangles or armlocks. 

Side control is another technique wherein the fighter pins his opponent to the ground from the side of his body, and keeping the opponent to the ground with the fighter laying across his opponent with his weight over the other’s chest. Further control may be achieved with pressure on the other’s shoulders and hips using the fighter’s shoulders, elbows and knees. 

Another technique would be the back grab or the rear mount (back mount). This allows the fighter to put his opponent down by wrapping the other’s legs around, hooking the thighs with their heels, and locking the other by wrapping arms around the chest or neck of the opponent. 

And the last technique is the Guard. At any situation, you can easily get hold of this technique for self defense. There are three types of Guard: Open, Closed, and Half. In the Open Guard, the fighter simply uses his legs or feet to make his opponent lose his balance, limiting his movements to counteract. In the Closed type, which is used when the fighter is below the opponent, the fighter wraps his legs around the trunk of his opponent with ankles closed together to keep the opponent in. In the Half Guard, one leg is controlled, limiting movement and allowing other maneuvers to be done.

You don’t need to be big and scary to get past any attacker. Just learn the techniques, get some pretty reliable self-defense and literally put your opponent down.