what is bujitsu?
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means you suck at jiu-jitsu
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Try this:
FightingArts.com - Bujitsu
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Its a generic word that in Japanese means martial arts. Some westerners seem to think it has other implications but it probably doesn't.
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LMAO!
Well I can only assume it means the traditional Japanese martial arts which were studied by the Bushi/Samurai. "Bu" seems to be common when refering to Japanese martial arts or warrior culture.
Example: Budo, Bushido, Bujutsu
Maybe "Bujutsu" means warrior technique. Let me look it up. I have a book that may have some answers for you.
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Yeah it just means "warrior art" in reference to the old schools of martial arts the Samurai studied.
Example: Budo, Bushido, Bujutsu
Maybe "Bujutsu" means warrior technique. Let me look it up. I have a book that may have some answers for you.
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Yeah it just means "warrior art" in reference to the old schools of martial arts the Samurai studied.
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look it up in youtube, it's not as bad as most other TMA styles out there. They actually compete, with "man's" rules. Mixed techniques.. a little bit of takedowns and ground work (not much from what I gathered), but a definite upgrade from most TMA's
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Okay dude, think of it like this. There is no exact translation, but basically Budo means, "warrior way" where as Bujitsu means "warrior art".
Historically and culturally, the martial arts of Japan can be divided into two areas: gendai budo and koryu
Koryu are all the old/ancient Japanese martial arts like kenjustu, the old style Japanese jiu-jitsu schools/ryus, tantojustu, aiki-jutsu. Stuff like that, generally any martial art style ending in a -jitsu/jutsu prefix is an older style of Japanese martial art when the samurai were concerned primarily with just straight up killing yo ass. It is much more combat oriented.
After Japan was unified by the Tokugawa shogunate and he laid a strong pimp hand down across the land, there really wasn't that much fighting anymore. Samurai weren't so much running around trying to kill each other anymore, but they still wanted to preserve their martial ways. It was during this time that a lot of the -do arts started to pop up, such as kendo (Japanese fencing). Take it one step further, after Japan was openned up to the West by Commodore Matthew Perry (think "The Last Samurai") the samurai were looked at as this relic of the past, and eventually men were forbidden to wear swords in public. More and more of the old -jitsu/jutsu arts began to be practiced/taught less and less and more of an emphasis was placed on "martial ways" than "martial arts", in other words training for physical/spiritual/mental development rather than just learning how to straight up kill someone on the battlefield.
Whenever you see some 49th grandmaster in some obscure Japanese jiu-jitsu or sword art, chances are very good it is a -jitsu/jutsu art and thus could be termed "bujitsu".
Your modern Japanese "budo" arts are kendo, judo, kyudo, iaido, stuff like that. They aren't necessarily "softer" martial arts, emphasis just isn't placed on killing someone.
Go to any kendo school and ask them the difference between kendo and ken-jutsu (my good friend does kendo) and his sensei was like, "kenjutsu is for killing, just for killing".
Historically and culturally, the martial arts of Japan can be divided into two areas: gendai budo and koryu
Koryu are all the old/ancient Japanese martial arts like kenjustu, the old style Japanese jiu-jitsu schools/ryus, tantojustu, aiki-jutsu. Stuff like that, generally any martial art style ending in a -jitsu/jutsu prefix is an older style of Japanese martial art when the samurai were concerned primarily with just straight up killing yo ass. It is much more combat oriented.
After Japan was unified by the Tokugawa shogunate and he laid a strong pimp hand down across the land, there really wasn't that much fighting anymore. Samurai weren't so much running around trying to kill each other anymore, but they still wanted to preserve their martial ways. It was during this time that a lot of the -do arts started to pop up, such as kendo (Japanese fencing). Take it one step further, after Japan was openned up to the West by Commodore Matthew Perry (think "The Last Samurai") the samurai were looked at as this relic of the past, and eventually men were forbidden to wear swords in public. More and more of the old -jitsu/jutsu arts began to be practiced/taught less and less and more of an emphasis was placed on "martial ways" than "martial arts", in other words training for physical/spiritual/mental development rather than just learning how to straight up kill someone on the battlefield.
Whenever you see some 49th grandmaster in some obscure Japanese jiu-jitsu or sword art, chances are very good it is a -jitsu/jutsu art and thus could be termed "bujitsu".
Your modern Japanese "budo" arts are kendo, judo, kyudo, iaido, stuff like that. They aren't necessarily "softer" martial arts, emphasis just isn't placed on killing someone.
Go to any kendo school and ask them the difference between kendo and ken-jutsu (my good friend does kendo) and his sensei was like, "kenjutsu is for killing, just for killing".
bujitsu is a generic word for an art that teaches all the martial arts of japan or a broad spectrum of japans martial arts. i have studied it before and it was pretty much a mixture of judo jujitsu various karate styles, taking most of the stand up from karate setting up takedowns and and some groundwork with jujitsu and most of the throws and grappling from judo although its hard to tell as there is so much cross over with these arts.
its very similar to mma but you train weapons and multiple attackers dirty tactics ect
its very similar to mma but you train weapons and multiple attackers dirty tactics ect
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No... it has nothing to with Judo or Karate. And it's certainly not similar to MMA in any way, shape, or form...
The Colonel hit the nail right on the head pretty much.
Bujitsu is a term for the Traditional Koryu MA's of Japan. They are Samurai military arts. The Samurai were soldier's. They practised, sword, spear, naginata, handtohand combat, dagger, long bow, pike, and gun arts.
These are all tradition Japanese Bujitsu. They are still taught today in Japan. But they are very obscure. It is ver very traditional and not just anybody can walk right in and start practicing with them. Very hard to get into. Gotta have connections and all that. Not many people outside of Japan that teaches the authentic stuff. These headmasters are part of an unbroken line going back hundreds of years.
