Atemi

Water can flow around rock eroding its weak points, just as your can invade the anatomical weak points of your opponent by striking or kicking.
Water can strike with sheer force and motion destroying or damaging anything in its path. Some examples being; pressure from a fire hose to put out a fire, hailstorm where water changes consistency and causes damage, Tidal wave, where its sheer size and force destroys everything, rough sea pounding against rocks eroding the weak points in the rock.
Blows directed at anatomically weak points of the body might kill, paralyse, stun, immobilize, and cause loss of sensation (numbness), pain and distraction.

Balance

Water will always balance itself, its force will off balance. It will continually flow from one area to another to create equality and balance. Its sound can off balance mentally, just as an opponent’s balance can be affected by the use of kiai.
In Jujitsu it is important to maintain good balance mentally and physically to be able to execute techniques effectively in both attack and defence.

Circle

Water can generate a powerful force, as in a whirling eddy or whirlpool. The whirlpool creates momentum, entraps anything within it and renders it helpless.
Applying the circle principle in your techniques will generate force as it entraps and off balances your opponent.

Ju

Water is flexible, gentle, non-resistant, strong, forcible and adaptable and, if necessary, can change the speed and direction of its flow. It may be dewdrops on the grass at sunrise, the ebbing of a wave when it washes up on the beach or maybe a thundering waterfall with still quiet pool of water below followed by water flowing down river or over rapids. If water is heated it vaporizes to become steam; if chilled it becomes a block of ice.
When applying this principle to Jujitsu, you have to be both mentally and physically capable of adapting yourself to whatever situation your opponent might impose upon you, giving you choices.

Meditation

“Mushin” or “no mind” is where the mind and body become one.
Peace and stillness of the mind can be created by being in tune with sounds of nature – for example: the gentle sound of the sea washing up on the beach, the trickling of water over rocks in a stream or the sound of softly falling rain.
In Jujitsu when the mind and body become one, you react easily to any situation presented to you.
The water principle is what makes the art of Jujitsu extremely effective and gives the Jujitsu exponent a vast resource to draw upon.

Subdue

As a stone enters the water, the surface tension converts from convex, to concaved in a moment, magnetically drawing the stone into the depth of the water. Practitioners of Jujitsu do not push away the attackers force, or resist the force head on, but presents a target to lure the attacker.

The stone emerges under the surface of the water, being engulfed by the water, with no apparent feel of resistance. The attacker’s energy and force offer the Jujitsu exponent little resistant, converting this motion to accelerate into a flow of motion, blending into the movement of the Jujitsu exponent, where it increases their vulnerability to be ensnared.
The stone struggles, incurring its path to the bottom. As the attacker resists the adaptability of the Jujitsu exponent ensures the control, as a fly in a spider’s web, finally subduing the attacker providing them with nowhere to run or move.

Learning

Once again a stone or pebble is dropped into the water, creating ripples echoing across the surface. These ripples upon the water are likened to the phases of learning. The stone being dropped into the water is like being born, washed clean having a thirst for knowledge.
As the ripples echo outward from the initial contact upon the water, this marks the begging along the path of Jujitsu. Everyone having their own ripple, increasing their wisdom and learning as it reaches outward.
Each ripple moves towards the other and is followed by another. Each being an example to another and watching ahead to another.
Water ripples create a flow of motion, leading more to be created to follow from its own source. Leading it along the same path to a final destination.
As a student is a teacher once was, as a teacher is a student may become.
This is the essence of the principle of Jujitsu to obtain the sustainability for its life.

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