Traditional Jujitsu?

My friend who has been doing it for years talked me into giving it a go. So I did.

As someone who has dabbled in various martial arts over the years, I have concerns about juJitsus effectiveness in live situations.

6 months of doing boxing training and actual sparing would be far more effective.

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redredred · M

3rd dan Hapkido here. I’ve long thought that high kicks and throws are just showmanship. Trips, strikes, punches and low kicks or sweeps make much more sense. Hapkido includes a lot of joint locks which are very effective in limited applications.

One almost has to put oneself into the opponent’s grip to execute a throw and one sacrifices both balance and power to deliver a head kick.

Just my opinion.

TheDeathOfOzymandiaz

@redredred Fair points indeed. The amount of senior traditional martial artists I have seen that cannot throw a proper punch is appalling.

I think for any martial art to be in anyway effective it needs to have sparing