Today I found this answer to the common question of which is better: Japanese Jujitsu or Brazilian Jujitsu, on Yahoo answers…

From what I’ve seen on youtube, Japanese jujitsu only works if your attacker is coming at you in slow motion!

It’s not really a direct answer but it does raise a valid point worth going into.

Yahoo answers is a service offered by Yahoo whereby someone can ask a question to the general community and sift through the retarded and offensive replies in seach of help - really the bullshit ratio is damn high on Yahoo answers but I guess that’s the banner-clicking, ringtone-downloading demographic that pays Yahoo’s salaries.

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It’s funny how you start to see the techniques of your martial art in other styles.

Last night I came across some great videos about Kalaripayattu, Eskrima and Systema. Watch the videos and see if you can spot any Jujitsu techniques!

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Belt Syllabus : World Jujitsu Federation

by JapaneseJujitsu.org

We’ve put together our guide to the World Jujitsu Federation syllabus so you can prepare yourself for your Jujitsu grading and revise your techniques whenever you want. It outlines all the kyu grades and finally black belt. Enjoy and best of luck with your training!

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We finally made the move over to our new home … japanesejujitsu.org !

We’ve been rather quiet recently as we nailed our developer to his desk until the transition was completed. He’s now babbling something incoherant about loss of blood, 301 redirects and other geek black magic so we’ve sent him off to the infirmary to get the nails removed.

So it’s with much pride that I can welcome you to the new domain. It’s much more relevant and the search engines should like it too.

We’ve got some great articles in the pipeline including an exclusive interview with Sensei Alan Campbell, Vice President and Autralian National Coach of the WJJF!

Thanks for you patience over the last couple of weeks!

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This week I want to look specifically at the World Jujitsu Federation belts - the order, colours and peculiarities. I figure I’m more qualified to start with WJJF rather than another school as it’s my own style of Japanese Jujitsu.

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Any reason can be the cause of a loss of motivation to train at Jujitsu - mine was a combination of moving into a new house with my girlfriend at the same time that winter started to set in. If this sounds weird allow me to explain - I drove a 125cc motorbike at the time, and it suddenly became a 26-mile round trip in icy temperatures (and roads) after an 8-hour day in my SEO job. Combined further with the onset of lazy domesticity, I finally hung up my belt for a while and decided I would start again in the spring… very bad descision.

So today I want to look at some of the reasons we can lose our motivation and passion for Jujitsu training.

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