I need help with Katas. Please help.

[YuukanYamamoto]

Hey,
I was wondering if you could give me a website that had free Ju-Jitsu katas that had clear and easy to follow instructions and pictures to take examples from. I am new to Ju-Jitsu and I want to have several katas every day to make me beter. Please help. Thanks for your time. Good bye.

[YODA]

Kata in JJ?

Several Kata every day?

Hmmmmm...

[YODA]

Hmmmm............

Sounds very familiar - Smitty16 is that you? :p

[kansetsuhazushi]

I don't know about kata in JJ, but if you just mean techniques, here's a site that has JJ techniques.

http://members.tripod.com/ju_jutsu_master/id20.htm

Sorry about it not being a link. I don't know how to make one. Hope this is helpfull. Good Luck!

[YODA]

As if by magic - a link appears :D

[SoKKlab]

The only Kata I know of in Ju Jitsu, are the two person Locks katas, from one position to the other.

Also, some Throw-counter-Throw two person katas, but as for set moves performed solo, never 'eard of 'em.

[YODA]

Originally posted by SoKKlab
The only Kata I know of in Ju Jitsu, are the two person Locks katas, from one position to the other.
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I haven't seen these in JJ. I've seen JJ people do them who've done seminars etc with shooto people (Erik Paulson, LArry Hartsell etc)

[Sub zero]

I think the inly tow which our school still practice are the blocking kata (very basic) and teh wirst lock Kata.

I think we use to practice a "ju jistu kata" and a praying mantis kata which was suposdly taken form JJ. Both were made up (i think) by a highg garde from the WJJF who will remain nameless..........

Apart form weapons kata.........

[SoKKlab]

We do 'Kata' for wrist-arm-shoulder-leg locks etc.
'Kata' as in, position to position, lock flows into lock, but as Set movements to aid memory regarding how to traverse from one Lock into another. They've worked well for me and my thick skull, so there must be something to them.

Also Position to Position, You are locked, then you counter (Reversal etc) with your own lock. That's what is described as Kata. Same goes for Throws, ala Ju Jitsu and Judo Throw/ Counter-Throw reversals, but done in sequences from one position to the next in a chain sequence.

There are also some Atemi 'Katas', where you have to show that you know what you are doing and to what, in sequence.

We don't do stuff like Blocking Kata, most of the 'blocks' in the JJJ that I am doing, Aren't, they are either re-directions, interceptions or jamming, we don't really do pure blocks as in the Karate-like interpretation of the word 'Blocks'.

I know that some JJJ systems differ in this respect. As i've seen other systems that do teach them.

[Freeform]

There are some karate like katas in some forms of JJ that I've seen. Also in freestyle Ju Jitsu they tend to have 'free kata' competitions, which is a predetermined series of techniques that the exponents execute on each other. The free kata is made up by the people doing it, so not a kata in the strictist meaning.

Col

[Jim]

We do quite a few JJ kata's, but my first thoughts would be... Why not ask your instructor?

[Freeform]

Always an excellent idea! ;)

[warren]

kata's would be different in each school,at the club i belong to we have stances kata's, locking kata's,chokes and strangle's kata,kick's from the ground kata's,blocking kata's and loads and loads of weapons kata's,and i must say i hate kata's with a passion, however i class them as a way to have a breather during actual gradings

[Tatsumaru]

mostly ju jitsu katas do seem to be more about locks, we do a number of katas with pin and lock variations at our club but there are also a few stance katas we do although they r very basic really.

[Martial7]

Several Katas in a day, huh ? You'd be lucky to successfully perform one kata and a little bunkai in a week............or two

[Aegis]

Well, given that this question was asked about 10 months ago and that there is not much information here, I see no reason to let this one resurface again...