What are the main differences between Japanese Jujitsu and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu?

Jujitsu uses pins, joint locks, and throws to defeat an opponent. Like using their energy against them. There is striking in it, sometimes weapons, and just locks and stuff.





BJJ is mainly just grappling, hardly any striking, although there are a few strikes. Mainly its used for grappling, a lot of chokes and joint locks.





Mainly one is just grappling, the other one consists of a number of things, but their main purpose is grappling.|||They are very different one is stand up the other is ground game.|||What is your purpose in asking?Sport and dojo sparring or self defense.If sport then the differences stand out judo/jujutsu primarily standing because that is what the judges and referees want to see nice throws.In TKD tournaments judges and refs want to see kicks.


In BJJ it%26#039;s ground work. that is valued in sport contest as it is easier to take a trained opponent to the ground by leg tackling when the opponent is hindered by rules of sportmanship.





Self defense is a whole different animal.The GRACIES advise against going to the ground as your 1st and only priority in a self defense situation and teach many stand up technique.





It is not that hard to throw or lock up an untrained attacker while standing and I know TKD people who will kick the knees and punch to the head in a self defense attack and even use arm locks and chokes.





To say any art only does one thing or fights only one way is wrong and if you are being taught that way ask for your money back.|||BJJ comes from japanese JJ, as you may or may not know grapling and join locks on the ground are part of traditional JJ. When Gracie was taught JJ he couldnt throw anyone, he wasnt strong to apply any of the standing holds, he was very skinny and very unfit so he focused his attention on what he would do on the ground and polished his ground game to the point where it could beat people from many other styles regardles of the weight or strength advantage





Similar to how Judo focused on throws which is one aspect of JJ, BJJ focused on the ground simply because its HARD to throw someone alot bigger than you or apply standup holds, even if your technique is very good, but on the ground weight plays a much smaller part so this is BJJ





JJ however is a more complete system as i covers everything, from standup locks to ground game to striking to throws, but if you want to focus on something you would do BJJ or Judo|||The answer is basically philosophy.|||My Jujitsu style is Japanese Danzan ryu. Strikes, stand up grappling, a lot of throws, and some ground fighting.





BJJ = almost exclusively ground fighting.|||BJJ is wrestling on the ground while JJJ is stand up fighting|||Stand up and ground game.|||Timeline: Samurai warriors fought eachother wearing armor similar if not indeed of bound silk with leather hides over it. Larger, standing up grappling, using more hip leverage and upper body strength. BJJ is a type of jujutsu that was made by Samurai%26#039;s also, but differs in the sense that these where techniques used AFTER the opponent was used on the ground IF it was necessary to brake the limbs of the fallen opponent. So the only real difference is how one goes about attacking or defending in combat; wanna wait till the oppenent throws a punch or grabs you for a takedown? Stay up and when it makes itself open for a throw....throw! Or if you wanna skip that all together and go for the submission by all means go ahead! Either way, dont hesitate. Be the person between doing and done.|||BJJ is strictly ground game. Take the person down immediately, then arm bar him or choke him out.





Most of the traditional Japanese forms are standing arts. I study Yoshin Ryu and can tell you that if I%26#039;ve ended up on the ground something has gone very wrong. We train strictly defense. No offensive moves. We learn to react to the attacker and use their energy against them. We use traditional hip throws and trips, but also a lot of small joint locks/throws, arm bars, and chokes. Many of the moves are illegal in tournaments and MMA fights but quite effective in a street fight.