Junior Members

Benefits of Junior Jitsu

Junior Jitsu is fun, energetic, inspiring, disciplined, challenging and rewarding.

Self-Discipline

Juniors learn the importance of discipline and respect for both others and themselves. In the sessions, they will learn how to respect the rules of the Dojo (training room) – such as no swearing, spitting or teasing.

Preventing Bullying

A major benefit of Jitsu is learning to be more confident and to improve posture thus avoiding potential bullying issues.

In training, Juniors learn how to defuse conflict and are advised to inform an adult or teacher about any incident. It is also made clear that there is no shame in doing so. Juniors are taught that violence is not an appropriate response to feeling threatened or bullied.

Training in Junsui Ryu Ju Jitsu teaches Juniors the importance of personal responsibility, and to respect others, leading to increased levels of self-esteem and confidence.

Life Skills

Jitsu provides an opportunity for young men and women to practice skills that will increase their performance in school activities as well as help them in later life.

Jitsu enhances communication skills, helps children interact with others and make new friends.

It teaches young men and women to take responsibility for their actions.

Through regular gradings and national courses, Jitsu can also help them to become more engaged and focused on goal setting and passing exams.

Some children can be labelled “hyperactive”, however training in Ju Jitsu provides a focused outlet for their abundant energy.

Juniors will attend first aid, assistant instructor and instructor courses. As part of this, they will each be asked to help and teach others.

Self-Defence

We teach children how to avoid confrontation and stress that they must, under no circumstances, use Ju Jitsu inappropriately outside of the Dojo. As a style we emphasise that the skills taught are solely for use either in personal defence situations or in the defence of others. We emphasise that the use of Ju Jitsu should only be employed, as a last resort, in response to an extreme physical threat or assault.

Juniors are taught to defend themselves against a range of attacks including grabs, punches and kicks. In addition, defences against various weapons and multiple attackers are addressed.

All the learning is made fun, safe and memorable: you will see more aggression and injuries in a school football match then at a Jitsu class. Students learn to calm a situation down and how to avoid trouble.

Encourage Physical Fitness

As a nation, our children are spending less time exercising and increasing amounts of time playing video games, watching television and being in front of a computer. This is unfortunately reflected in a dramatic rise in childhood obesity and diabetes.

Jitsu can help improve cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, balance, strength and overall energy levels.

Self Defence

Junsui Ryu Ju Jitsu is a very practical and effective martial art which focuses on self defence against a variety of realistic attack situations, ranging from a simple punch or kick, to dealing with grabs, multiple-attackers or weapons.

Unlike some other martial arts, Ju Jitsu is not a sport. We don’t train in weight categories and we don’t have rules (other than respect for each-other’s safety when training). Instead we learn the techniques appropriate to defence against a full variety of attackers – not every technique is appropriate for every attacker.

We emphasise not only effective self defence against a physical attack, but also how to respond to, and potentially control, the build-up leading to a potential attack. By greater awareness, often an attack can be prevented from happening. An aspect of our training is to allow students to experience the pressure (and fear) of a realistic attack. it is far harder to execute a graceful self-defence technique whist dealing with the adrenaline and fear in a real defence situation. Through repeated exposure to this sort of pressure, our students are better prepared to remember their training and respond appropriately should they have the real need.

The following is sourced from Wikipedia …

“Self-defence is part of private defence, the doctrine in English law that one can act in ways that would otherwise be illegal to prevent injury to oneself or others, or to prevent crime more generally[citation needed] – one has the same right to act to protect others as to protect oneself. This defence arises both from common law and the Criminal Law Act 1967. Self-defence in English law is using reasonable force against an unjust threat. Self-defence is a justification rather than an excuse (Robinson’s classification of defences), that is, the defence is asserting that the actions were not a crime at all.”

When responding to an attack, the self-defence technique not only needs to be effective (preventing harm to the defendant and permitting a safe end to the situation) but also needs to be a response proportionate to the threat. In Junsui Ryu Ju Jitsu we teach techniques covering a range of responses levels from a simple release, to a more forceful response. Our goal is to empower our students to defend themselves in a way which is proportional to the situation.

Elements of Ju Jitsu

Ju Jitsu for Junior Members

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Self Defence