Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a form or martial art that deals mainly with grappling but is focused on fighting from and on the ground. It started early in the 20th century deriving from Kokodan Judo. Mitsuyo Maeda is one of the founding fathers of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, he left Japan to show the art of Judo to the world. This is when he met a man named Gastão Gracie. Maeda then taught Gracie’s two sons Carlos and Helio martial arts. Helio is known as the founder of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, which is todays Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu came to international prominence in the martial arts community in the 1990s. This is when Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expert Royce Gracie won the first, second, and fourth Ultimate Fighting Championships (1993-94), which at the time were single elimination martial arts tournaments. Royce fought against often much-larger opponents who were practicing other styles, including boxing, shoot-fighting, karate, judo, tae kwon do and wrestling. It has since become a staple art for many MMA (Mixed-Martial arts) fighters and is largely credited for bringing widespread attention to the importance of ground fighting.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu emphasizes taking an opponent to the ground and using your ground fighting techniques and submission holds. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu permits a wide variety of techniques to take the fight to the ground. Once the opponent is on the ground, there’s plenty of maneuvers available to manipulate the opponent into a suitable position for the application of a submission. One must achieve a dominant position once on the ground with either a mount, back mount or side control. The majority of submission holds can be grouped in a category of joint locks or chokes. Joint locks typically involve isolating an opponent’s limb and creating a lever with the body position which will force the joint to move past its normal range of motion and forcing them to submit. A choke hold, disrupting the blood supply to the brain, can cause unconsciousness if the opponent does not submit soon enough.
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