What`s the differnce between jujitsu, taekwondo, and kungfu, and karate?

Frank the Tank is correct. I would add that each respective art has thier own principles in fighting. Each one mentioned have different methods for the same goal. %26quot;Defeat the enemy%26quot;|||Jujutsu is from Japan and its origins come from the Samurai





TKD is Korean and relies heavily on kicks but does have punches as well just more a 70-30 mix of kicks versus punches.





Kungfu is from China and is a circular art where the above two are more linear. They use many soft blocks with fluid motion rather than hard blocks or joint locks as above.





Karate means comes from Okinawa and was known as Te meaning Hand first. It has influences from both Chinese Kenpo and with Okinawan Te to create Karate named in the mid to late 20%26#039;s by men like Gichin Funokoshi.





All are good arts, finding a good teacher is usually more difficult. enjoy learning.|||Jujitsu - grappling, with some striking.


Taekwondo - striking art, with an emphasis on kicks.


Kung fu - generic name given to Chinese martial arts, often called a %26quot;soft%26quot; style because of the flowing and circular movements.


Karate - striking art, with an emphasis on powerful attacks and counters.|||ju jitsu is basically like grappling. throws, locks and such.





tae kwon do. mostly kicks. very fun to spar with.





karate. becareful and find a good school. ie. dont go to places that teach some weird form of karate that wasnt originally developed my the japanese.





for example check out kyokushin karate (spar with out gear, fight multiple opponents) very cool stuff





some other martial arts u might want to check out is:





Wing Chun (bruce lee%26#039;s main art) teaches you fast fast punches and how to attack and defend using only touch and not having to see your opponent. (sticky hands) very cool.





Jeet Kun Do (if you can find one was bruce lee%26#039;s developed method)





Muay Thai - if you want to learn to strike hard. not as technical as the others but will make you like a tank.





Kali / Escrima - fillipino(sp?) arts, teaches you stick fighting and knife fighting. really cool and practical defend against any one! but a gun.....





and thats all i can think of.|||Other than the fact that they%26#039;re from completely different countries. They%26#039;re also completely different styles of martial arts.


Like Frank said, they%26#039;re all from different countries and different kinds of art.


Juijitsu is a Samurai art from Japan used for grappling.


Kung Fu is a western name for all the different Chinese martial arts. Chinese prefer to call them Wushu. Their moves are very fluid, flexible, and even deceptive. It looks almost like dancing but it%26#039;s a devastating art none the less. It%26#039;s mostly considered a soft style.


Karate was imported from China during China and Okinawa%26#039;s trades. However, Okinawan people changed it into a more direct and linear form. As a result, their strikes a very direct and hard. It%26#039;s considered a hard style.


Tae Kwon Do is a Korean art that mixes the circular, fluid moves of Kung Fu and Linear hits of Karate. Since Korea was occupied by both China and Japan at one point. They were influenced by both styles. Tae Kwon Do is also considered a hard style and so is Juijitsu. Most of the kicks and moves you see in movies are mostly Tae Kwon Do. Karate doesn%26#039;t look all that good in the movies and Kung Fu doesn%26#039;t look all that practical. So Tae Kwon Do usually winds up being the perfect mix. They usually don%26#039;t show people fighting on the ground in the movies, or you%26#039;ll be seeing a lot of Juijitsu moves. Which is what they should be showing because 80% of street fights wind up on the ground anyway. But it doesn%26#039;t look very good in the movies when the hero falls down and has to fight on the ground. (It%26#039;s not very american.)|||jujitsu grappling art from japan, often confused with brazilian jujitsu, which is similar, but more focused on the ground grappling.





Taekwondo, striking art from Korea, it emphasizes on kicks.





Kung fu general term for many styles of Chinese martial arts, focusing on striking.





Karate striking Japanese martial art.





I hope this information is useful.





good luck!