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Okay, we won’t lie to you. Sometimes it hurts. But of all martial arts, Jitsu has one of the lowest injury rates around.

We don’t do lots of high kicks or jumping (so no risk of torn ligaments or dislocations from overstretching). We don’t practise strikes against hard objects (so the risk of breaking knuckles, fists, wrists, etc from body conditioning doesn’t exist). We’re not full contact (in the karate sense) so we don’t risk breakages that way. And we don’t teach people to fall badly so they won’t lose points in competitions.

Every session begins with a warm-up to prevent over-stretching of muscles. And every beginner is first taught how to fall so that they don’t hurt themselves during practice. Couple that with the co-operative nature of Jitsu training and the reasons for the low injury rate are obvious.

And if there is a problem, anyone with a light-blue belt or better has taken a first-aid qualification so will know how to deal with injuries.

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Where we train

City Jitsu Club trains twice a week near Angel and the Barbican, London, EC1, at City University, Northampton Square, Islington.

Training times
Monday: 7.30pm–9pm
Friday: 7pm–9pm

Directions

The Club in Action

  • Club member Liam demonstrates techniques in a gauntlet
  • Instructor Gesa Brinkmann demonstrates a throw
  • Training at our 10th anniversary session
  • Instructor Gesa Brinkmann demonstrates a technique
  • Grades demonstrate techniques they've learnt
  • Grades and novices practise techniques while instructors observe
  • Grades and instructors at the 10th anniversary session
  • A scene from our 10th anniversary session
  • An orange belt demonstrating an armlock in a circle
  • Novices being taught a wristlock
  • Novices can train in light clothing until they own their own gi.
  • Members often have to demonstrate what they have learned that session in front of other Jitsuka

Videos of techniques

  • Sensei Mat Phillips demonstrates an ashi-guruma throw followed by a rare immobilisation technique
  • Techniques being demonstrated and taught at the City Jitsu 10th anniversary session
  • Kata-juji-jime, the half-cross strangle
  • An o-goshi (major hip) throw into yoko-shiho-gatame, the side four quarters hold
  • Kata-gatame, the shoulder hold
  • Ude-garami, the forearm entanglement, used in groundwork
  • Ko-tsuri-komi-goshi, the minor lifting drawing hip throw
  • O-tsuri-komi-goshi, the major lifting, drawing hip throw
  • Ko-tomoe-seoi-nage, the small circle shoulder throw
  • Irimi-nage, the entering body throw
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