11.4 Jiu-Jitsu Grand Masters (10th degree Red Belts).11.3 Jiu-Jitsu Grand Masters (9th degree Red Belts).11.2 Jiu-Jitsu Masters (Coral Belts: 7th & 8th Degree).10.5 Cervical and spinal lock "neck cranks".BJJ can also be used as a method of promoting physical fitness, building character, and as a way of life. Sparring, commonly referred to as "rolling" within the BJJ community, and live drilling plays a major role in training and the practitioner's development. BJJ training can be used for sport grappling and self-defense situations. Governing bodies such as the IBJJF work worldwide, and set the rules and standards to be held in sport BJJ competitions.īJJ revolves around the concept that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend him/herself against a bigger, stronger, heavier opponent by using leverage and weight distribution, taking the fight to the ground and using a number of holds and submissions to defeat them. BJJ eventually came to be its own defined combat sport through the innovations, practices, and adaptation of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and Judo, and became an essential martial art for modern MMA. Later, they developed their own self-defense system and named it Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.
BJJ focuses on the skill of taking an opponent to the ground, controlling one's opponent, gaining a dominant position, and using a number of techniques to force them into submission via joint locks or chokeholds.īrazilian Jiu-Jitsu was first developed around 1920 by Brazilian brothers Carlos, Oswaldo, Gastão Jr., George, and Hélio Gracie, after Carlos was taught traditional Kodokan judo by a travelling Japanese judoka, Mitsuyo Maeda, in 1917. Kodokan judo, Japanese Jujutsu (via Judo), Wrestlingīrazilian Jiu-Jitsu ( BJJ / dʒ uː ˈ dʒ ɪ t s uː/ Portuguese:, , jiu-jitsu brasileiro) is a martial art and combat sport based on ground fighting ( ne-waza) and submission holds. Kanō Jigorō, Tomita Tsunejirō, Mitsuyo Maeda, Takeo Yano, Soshihiro Satake, Geo Omori, Jachintho Ferro, Donato Pires dos Reis, Carlos Gracie, George Gracie, Oswaldo Gracie, Hélio Gracie, Luiz França, Oswaldo Fadda Ground fighting, Submission Grappling, Grappling Romulo Barral (bottom) with a Triangle Choke at the 2009 World Jiu-Jitsu ChampionshipīJJ, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, Gi/Nogi Jiu-Jitsu, Submission Grappling