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Does anyone know the difference between Jiu Jitsu and Brazilian Jiu jitsu?

All right, so I have to help my self

Did some research online and found a lot of interesting information about BJJ, Jiu jitsu and Jujutsu.
Some of the better explanations are:


People ... please realize that there is a difference between Jujutsu, Jiu-Jitsu and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Yes they are all different (Except Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, are for the most part, the same). Jujustu was the original form, the way of the samuri. Jujustu is basically the combination of Karate and Judo. As time went on most people either studied the striking aspect of Jujutsu or the throws and ground work. As even more time went on Jujutsu basically just split in to two parts: Karate and Judo. One practisioner of Judo, Count Maeda, refined the Newaza (ground grappling techniques) of Judo. He called his own refined studies, of Newaza, Jiu-Jitsu. Count Maeda became very skilled in his own style of Jiu-Jitsu. He emigrated to Brazil and needed the help of a politician to do so. In return for the politcians help he agreed to teach his son, Carlos Gracie Sr., his style Jiu-Jitsu. Carlos then taught all of his brothers Jiu-Jitsu. One of his brothers, Helio, was very small and not athletic at all. Helio further refined the techniques to make better use of leverage to help overtake the strength difference he usually encountered. This was when Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was born. The adoption of the name Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or Gracie Jiu-Jitsu didn’t happen until non-brazilians started training. To this day, in Brazil, Brazilians still call it just Jiu-Jitsu. Here in the U.S. today, the only difference between Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu is who teaches the class. There was a legal issue between one half of the family and the other half. So one half of the family teaches Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and the other half teaches Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Same technique, different teachers.



another interesting explanation is



"What is the difference between Japanese (classical) Jiu-Jitsu (jujutsu) and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu?"

The first and most important reason can be found in the art's history and is primary to all others discussed afterward. When you research the history of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, you will understand that it came from "Judo" in its time of renaissance. In the early 1900's, Judo was being developed from a variety of Jiu-jitsu styles in order to make it the most complete and effective martial art in the world. Some older Jiu-jitsu schools only focused on one area of fighting (some practiced primarily standing techniques) and had been left without a realistic battlefield testing ground for hundreds of years. If you recall the history of Judo's beginning, you know that it was made up of mostly standing techniques at first, from Kito Ryu Jiu-jitsu and a few other styles. This alone was not enough, so the groundwork of Fusen Ryu was added, making it more complete. When you say "traditional" or "Japanese" Jiu-jitsu, you are referring to only one of these Jiu-jitsu styles, which is incomplete alone.


thanks anyway

To me it seems to be the same, there is no difference between Jiu Jitsu and BJJ.
In both styles they are messing around on the floor. .. So, it's the same.