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What do you think about this ju jitsu demo?
Emanuele2- Posts : 202
Join date : 2013-01-21
NBK- Posts : 1298
Join date : 2013-01-10
Location : Tokyo, Japan
Seemingly fairly standard Euro jujutsu or 'jiujutsu' offshoot art from Japanese jujutsu.
This sort of thing puzzled me for years, until I found contemporaneous Japanese references to convince me there's a logical historic explanation for their existence. Even the Kodokan and Kano shihan mention them and their origin.
Probably not enough to convince certain 'scientific judo history researchers' and other maniacs, but there you are.
For me, the question is basic: if tori's technique is effective and controls or could seriously injure uke, why does he have to change through a dozen techniques? What did, or what could uke do to neutralize or counter the previous technique? There's no discernible movement at all on uke's part.
And why would you shift techniques while uke is still wielding a knife?
Doesn't make sense in the framework of jujutsu I study.
This sort of thing puzzled me for years, until I found contemporaneous Japanese references to convince me there's a logical historic explanation for their existence. Even the Kodokan and Kano shihan mention them and their origin.
Probably not enough to convince certain 'scientific judo history researchers' and other maniacs, but there you are.
For me, the question is basic: if tori's technique is effective and controls or could seriously injure uke, why does he have to change through a dozen techniques? What did, or what could uke do to neutralize or counter the previous technique? There's no discernible movement at all on uke's part.
And why would you shift techniques while uke is still wielding a knife?
Doesn't make sense in the framework of jujutsu I study.
Emanuele2- Posts : 202
Join date : 2013-01-21
It's just a promo demo.NBK wrote:For me, the question is basic: if tori's technique is effective and controls or could seriously injure uke, why does he have to change through a dozen techniques? What did, or what could uke do to neutralize or counter the previous technique? There's no discernible movement at all on uke's part.
And why would you shift techniques while uke is still wielding a knife?
Jihef- Posts : 222
Join date : 2013-09-06
Location : Brussels, Belgium
Well… you did ask : “What do you think about this ju jitsu demo?”Emanuele2 wrote: It's just a promo demo.
Emanuele2- Posts : 202
Join date : 2013-01-21
Indeed. A demo is for pubblicity, so it has to display more technique possible. It is not a kata.Jihef wrote:Well… you did ask : “What do you think about this ju jitsu demo?”