64 years old - and still rolling! And three new 8th Kyu Karate grades at Ichinen Bridport

64 years old and still rolling, that's about the story of Lewis A. Harris. A fine martial artist for a long time with grades in Krav Maga (green belt) and Kyokushin Karate (brown belt). Lewis is a member of local Bridport martial art school Ichinen Bridport since the year 2014 and graded now as 3rd Kyu /green belt in Jiu-Jitsu.

His grading was watched by the Ichinen grading commission under Master Horst Lindenau (Jiu-Jitsu) and after his exceptional performance Master Horst handed a well deserved 3rd Kyu/green belt certificate to Lewis. Well done Lewis and a big congratulation from all of us at Ichinen Bridport!!

Loders Dojo martial art session now two hours

From now on the Jiu-Jitsu training at the Loders Dojo will be two hours. Start at 7 pm as usual and finishes at 9 pm. That way we have much more time and effectivity. The one day we are in the small Dojo it is from now on mindfulness training. Meditation, Kata and psychological combat tactics. This session will be one hour.

Beginners and new members with experience always very welcome. Martial art training for everybody in Bridport and surrounding villages. Ichinen bridport martial art school: The number when when you want to learn self defence in the South West.

Jiu-Jitsu / JuJutsu / Jujitsu ?

Hold on the ground Jiu-Jitsu technique

What means Jiu-Jitsu?

Literally spoken, it is the gentle art, the technique of suppleness and flexibility. Jitsu means art in Japanese and when you translate the Japanese into all the other languages it also known as Ju Jutsu, Jujutsu, Jujitsu or written with a hyphen as in Jiu-Jitsu or Ju-Jitsu. The confusion already starts when you move from one country to another as I did. 

What is Jiu-Jitsu in Germany is wrongly taken as BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) in Britain. And so on... But as we say, names are sound and echo.

Today we have uncounted styles all over the world and that is very much the same than at the time this popular combat system can traced back in history. In ancient Japan in the late 17th to mid 19th century there were over 700 different systems. All based on the same principle, the gentle art. Winning by losing. What counts most is the effectiveness in combat. And that includes the armed and unarmed skills.

Jiu-Jitsu techniques include striking and kicking, kneeing, throwing and choking, joint locking, holding and tying. And all these skills are or can be combined with weapons. Therefore it is a truly all round combat system and today very much used for self defence.Useful for men and women and all ages.