What is the difference between Aikido and Jujitsu?

what is one prominent difference between these styles? meaning that since Aikido was developed from the foundation of Aikijitsu?|||I really like Booyakasha%26#039;s answer.





As a Jiu-jitsuka myself I%26#039;d say evasion and atemi waza combined with various throws and pins.





I%26#039;d love to do Aikido at some point.





Best wishes :)***|||No difference. Aikido is just another form of jiu-jitsu. There are hundreds of styles of jiu-jitsu and several forms.





The term %26#039;jitsu%26#039; designates a %26#039;koryu%26#039; art and %26#039;do%26#039; designates a %26#039;gendai%26#039; art.





In Japan during the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912) everything connected with the Samurai was just about outlawed, including Samurai martial arts. In order to save the martial arts from oblivion, they were toned down making them less deadly, so the koryu arts (jitsu) became the gendai arts (do): examples - Ju-jitsu became Ju-do; Aiki-jitsu became Aiki-do; Ken-jitsu became Ken-do; Kyu-jitsu became Kyu-do, etc. etc.





The difference between Jiu-jitsu and Ju-do is like the difference between bare-knuckle boxing and modern boxing (with gloves); or a gun-fight and paint-ball. The same with the difference between Aikijitsu and Aikido.





In Akijitsu you counter an attack with a punch to the jaw; in Aikido you counter a similar attack with an arm across the neck.|||Jujitsu goes back many hundreds of year, possibly further, depending on the style or school.





Aikido was founded by O-Sensei as a mix of Jujitsu and sword and spear techniques. (Note the subiyashi leg movements, advancing or retreating with the same foot forward all the time. It is quite different from walking.)





The other thing is the philosophy angle. (Anything ending with JUTSU or JITSU is a martial skill, designed to kill the enemy in battle. Pure and simple. Anything ending in DO, such as Ju-do, Aiki-do, Naginata-do, Jo-do is designed as a WAY, or a TAO (the Chinese word).





Morihei Ueshiba was deeply involved in the Omoto religion, and he became a strong pacifist. As he got older, his teachings got softer and more gentle. Thus the Aikido techniques passed on to his eariest students - Kenji Tomiki and Gozo Shioda - were stronger than the ones he taught his students when he was decades older. I%26#039;m not saying O-Sensei was weaker as an old man, though he would have been, but his attitude to the techniques became softer as his skill and outlook became more spiritual.





So let me boil it down. xxx-JITSU (or xxx-JUTSU) techniques were originally designed to cripple or kill. xxx-DO techniques were designed to neutralize an attack with minimum damage possible to the attacker. Of course, this takes great skill... and sometime the minimum force may still end up being deadly force.|||To me it comes down to Control. In Jujitsu the object is to disable an opponent whether it is achieved by breaking his bones or limbs or incapacitating him through strikes, choke holds or throws. In Aikido, the goal is to neutralize your opponent%26#039;s attack and control his movement so he can no longer be a danger to both you and himself without causing unecessary injury or using excessive force.|||There is a story about how OSensei came up with the idea of Aikido. Prior to developing the art, he was well trained in a number of arts including Tenjin Shin%26#039;yo-ryu jujutsu, judo, and later Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu. All of these arts are descended directly from war arts - where the object is to kill or main your opponent as fast as you can.





Interestingly, this is the reason that jujutsu incorporates throws and arm locks - and uses punches so sparingly. The art was designed against armored opponents, who could care less if you punched them.





Anyhoo, according to the story, OSensei was challenged to a bokken duel by a navel officer in 1925. He was unarmed, and apparently unwilling to duel. The officer lost the duel - supposedly due to OSensei%26#039;s evasiveness that simply wore the officer down. He did not injure the officer, and by all accounts never really even touched him.





This led him to a spiritual awakening, where he decided that budo could be used in a method that honored all living things, including your attacker. Aikido is the systematization of this theory.





Whereas in Aiki jujutsu might use an arm bar to destroy the opponents elbow - in Aikido the objective is to %26quot;light them up%26quot; with the pain, and throw them away prior to causing injury. In practice, this can be difficult to master - and many aikidoka will admit that the theories of aikido wouldn%26#039;t necessarily be followed to the letter in a street fight - but the theory is, if you are good enough, you don%26#039;t have to hurt your opponent to get them to stop. This also extends to non-violent methods of defeating your opponent... you can blend with words as well as you can blend with an attack.|||ju-jitsu was first aikido came from it. the big difference is ju-jitsu covers nearly everything punching,blocking,kicking,grabs,chokes,h... ect. i havnt done aikido but as far as i know its mainly just hand attacks. im sure theirs more than just that but when ive seen ppl do it thats all i see|||At one time, long time ago, they were both one art.