As we have referred , Jujutsu was refined at the Kodokan and eventually became JUDO
JUDO is primarily TACHI waza, standing and throwing, with NE waza, ground and grappling, being secondary, originally a 80:30 split
KOSEN Judo is a practice that follows the concept of getting the opponent to the ground without looking for a "point" for a clean throw, and finishing with submission, it focusses on going direct to Ground fighting
GRACIE Jiu Jitsu, as has been discussed, is derived from the teaching of Sensei Maeda, the Gracie's teacher, adapted from, the KOSEN Judo method
Gracie 36 Combatives makes up the syllabus for Blue Belt
For each of the four stripes on the Blue belt, there is a level of techniques to be learnt up until Purple Belt
- Gracie syllabus for Blue to Purple is referred to as The Master Cycle - there are 60 "lessons" for each "stripe", making 240 in all
For Purple to Brown, there are no new techniques, the student learns the 32 principles and their application - there are 8 principles to be learnt for each stripe
If you look at the 36 Combatives as a kind of "gokyo", 8, 8, 8, 8, 4, one level for each tab, it takes as much time and work to get to Blue Belt in Gracie as it does to get to Black Belt in Judo
Then with the blue tabs each having a level with 60 techniques, getting to purple belt is the same as getting to 3rd or 4th Dan, with the same amount of time and effort put in
For Brown Belt, there are 4 stripes, though there is no fixed syllabus that takes a student through them to the Black Belt
After Black Belt, there are the customary Dan grades up to 9th
So for a Gracie syllabus that makes up their JJ system, we have the blue belt and it's 4 stripe levels, a cycle of 36 lessons, then a cycle of 240 lessons
NOTE: we are looking here at the GRACIE system as it became the syllabus at their Academy, this is not the various systems of "BJJ" and "Brazilian Jiu Jitsu" that you can find that may or may not have some level of Gracie training, understanding or insight, and they functionalise more for Sport than Street, including their reflex development
The Gracie system focuses on Street Fighting and Self Defence - the BJJ systems are Sport orientated, and their later development with their new techniques and methods has been for that arena
A way of looking at it
- The original Gracie system vs the new "BJJ" systems
- The original Parker Kenpo vs the Tracy Kenpo
- The original Ueshiba Iwama Aikido vs the Tomiki Aikido
- Muay Thai the martial art vs Thai boxing the sport
- etc
And keep in mind, this can all be found at the Kodakan in JUDO, which come from Kano's original refinement of Ju Jutsu
With the concept of grouping techniques into 8:
Judo - 8 throws for each belt level Orange, Green, Blue, Brown, Black
Kenpo - 24 techniques for each belt level, 3 sets of 8 - Orange, Purple, Blue, Green, Brown 1, Brown 2 (Brown 1 to Black 3 being the extensions)
Gracie Combatives - 4 sets of 8 lessons plus 4 lessons, an extra half set - for the white tabs to Blue Belt
STMA - we use 40 techniques on the Combative Newaza, as we cover the Judo/Jujutsu scarf and side mount submissions
- with STMA we group these as 4 sets of 10, being 10 techniques for each of the four phases - Mount, Side, Guard, Standing
The 240 lessons for the Master Cycle have been listed and posted on the JJ Board
The 32 Principles and their explanations have been posted on the JJ Board
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As posted above:
The Gracies use the 36 Combatives to grade a student to Blue Belt
At STMA
- we use 40 techniques on our Combative Newaza, as we cover the Judo/Jujutsu scarf and side mount submissions in the base Combative phase
- with STMA we group these into 4 sets of 10, being 10 techniques for each of the four phases - Mount, Side, Guard, Standing
- we cover the full Judo series of 12 pins
- we cover Atemi in the Ground Bud roll sequence, ground strikes from each position
- so our Ground Combative sequence is orientated and functionalised for Street, practiced on the mats, wood floor, and the Grass
For what the Gracies call the Master Cycle, the 240 lessons, which take you through the four blue tabs to Purple Belt, we have all those techniques as they are handed down from Jujutsu, we just don't have a set way for practicing them, an order, an established structure, or a syllabus
- our Advanced Series contains techniques such as
Mount Triangle Choke
Mount face down arm bar
Back Mount rear choke forks
etc
again we focus on learning the Art of Jujutsu as it is handed down and functionalising for Street Self Defence Combat, we do not look at the Sparring and Sports aspect at all, so some of what is available is not used and does not apply
We have listed the 240 Gracie MC in the Advanced Jiu Jitsu thread, the program that takes a student through the four levels from Blue to Purple, just as we have listed the Judo 67 throws in the Judo Gokyo thread, and the 150 Kempo Self Defence techniques in their thread
We have listed the Advanced Concepts and 32 Principles, that make up the 4 levels for Purple to Brown, in their thread
We use these principles in the same way, applying them to the techniques in the lessons already learnt - similar to how the KENPO extensions to an existing technique add new principles, a Kenpo Purple Belt technique eg Hooking Wings, becomes a Black Belt technique when the extension is added
JJ examples:
Principle 10: Frame - we have been using Frames on the Ground for several years and you all know some
Principle 15 is FORK - as in Chess, and we have been referring to this at Sessions for a long time
Principle 16: Posture - Kamae - the technique comes from the Kamae - eg Kihon Happo again
Principle 24: Overload - Disproportionate application of your resources to target a specific part of your opponent’s body eg the armbar, your entire body against the elbow joint of the opponent’s arm
As we go into the mid part of the 3rd decade of the 21st Century, what is now called BJJ, sports systems that are not the Gracie Self defence system, and a lot of what is being seen in what is called MMA contest means there are new developments, methods and techniques coming out that are Sports Orientated. This is similar to how striking systems that compete evolve their competitive styles, boxing, kickboxing, karate, semi contact, full contact, thai, the difference between WTF and ITF TKD, savate, cage, what the different rules for different associations are, everything. Though it is interesting to pay attention to how these Sports systems evolve, this has nothing to do with our study of Martial ART and our Functionalisation for Street Self Defence
In SPORT:
you are fighting a pre arranged match,
with rules,
time limit,
a safe environment such as padded ring, mats, or cage,
protective gear,
and weight categories
In STREET SELF DEFENCE:
you are taken by surprise, even if you are prepared for the possibility
there are no rules
there is no time limit
you are not in a safe environment, most likely the opposite
you are not wearing protective gear unless you specifically went out in some
we presume the attacker is bigger, stronger and heavier
ALSO - A street attack may involve
weapons
multiple attackers
multiple attackers with weapons
