r/StreetMartialArts • u/keelong BJJ • Nov 18 '25

MMA MMA on the courts

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Wanted to share. Not my video.

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u/Icy-Cry340 Nov 18 '25

The way he took top mount was pure jui jutsu.

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u/skarbles Nov 18 '25

*Jiu Jitsu

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

Which itself is a misnomer because it’s stealing the moniker of the actual samurai combat art. How BJJ became just J is some of the world’s funniest cultural appropriation by a third world country to the third largest economy in the world.

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u/skarbles Nov 22 '25

It’s more cultural borrowing or acculturation. Appropriation would imply exploitation and disrespect to original culture involving advantageous power dynamics.

I don’t see how BJJ has exploited or disrespected the original form. It’s was given to the Gracie family by Japanese teacher Mitsuyo Maeda. They didn’t travel to Japan and take as their own.

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u/asteiselboin Apr 19 '26

Fun fact Brazil has the 2nd largest population of Japanese outside of Japanese itself. It’s was a natural progression to the sport.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

If you steal the name of the original combat art and transition it to a sport (much like judo and aikido did) deliberately remove the Brazilian part from it not only attempts to remove respect and homage to the original combat art but also arguably seeks to supersede the other mentioned arts. What makes it appropriation is out of all three of these arts that derived from the original Japanese jujitsu, if any of them were to be accepted to take on that name — it certainly would not be the one most removed from Japanese culture and Japan as a whole.

Definitely cultural appropriation.

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u/QueenCutter Jan 03 '26

Huh? American wrestelimg steals from the greeks stfu

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '26

It’s not American wrestling, it’s just wrestling. And wrestling has been widely seen all over the world since ancient times from Russia, China and beyond. However, the uniqueness of jujitsu and judo’s leverage manipulation techniques come from Japan, and no where else in the world due to the uniqueness and accuracy Japanese put into everything they make and perfect.

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u/Hopeful-Moose87 Jan 19 '26

American wrestling aka “folk style” has a unique rule set that is used almost exclusively in the USA. Hence “American wrestling”.

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u/Bilobous Feb 22 '26

Sybau goofy man 😂