a Description of a Jujutsu Armbar

Jujutsu is a a japanese martial art consisting primarily of grappling techniques. The word itself means “art of softness” and focuses on using an opponent's energy against him. Jujutsu was developed in feudal japan to disarm or overtake armed opponents when weapons were impractical or forbidden. The olympic sport judo, and brazilian jui jitsu were both developed based on multiple schools of Japanese Jujutsu. Jujutsu utilizes an array of different attacks including throwing, trapping, joint locking, holds, gouging, biting, disengagements, striking, and kicking.

In this free video series, out expert Michael Lewis will tell you all about jujutsu armbars. He will teach you how to soften blows to aid your technique, he will show you how to apply pressure and twist during and armbar, and how to be safe while training. Mr Lewis will teach you how to do an armbar from the left side, right side, with a wrap over, under the arm, and on the ground. He will even teach you how to pull off an armbar at knifepoint!

"MICHAEL LEWIS: Michael Lewis with the Yeshua Ryu Martial Arts on behalf of Expert Village. We are talking today about arm bars, how to apply them and how to apply them safely. There are many, many variations to the arm bar. You can do it from many different angles also. You can even apply arm bars with your legs depending on how you end up doing your grappling. But an arm bar is pretty much any technique that can wrap up the arm or can be used as leverage against the arm to lock up the elbow and to be able to lock it in place. Like I said, there is many different ways. I can lock it up from this direction. I can switch while I am facing the same direction as the partner. Or if he is down on the ground, again, I can sort of wrap my leg around him and be able to apply an arm bar technique. It is very important to also pay attention to the blocks and the ways that you get into your arm bar techniques. If he throws a punch towards me with this hand, I'll push, parry, press, block and right there is the arm bar. It's very, very easy, very fast. But also on the same note, he could throw that same punch. I will throw an out block and wrap right in to an arm bar technique. So there are many, many different variations to an arm bar, and we are going to be talking about those today."