Does Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu have have forms like karate and taekwondo?

You know how karate and taekwondo have forms you have to learn. does Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu have forms?|||No, they don%26#039;t.





in response to clown%26#039;s answer: I agree with what you%26#039;re saying, as far as how you go over different scenarios in jujitsu, however I don%26#039;t think it%26#039;s the same as when you do forms in karate classes and they say do kata #1 (or what have you). So yeah, it kinda does open a can of worms. I guess it just depends on how you look at it ans what you consider a form/kata.|||You may have opened up a can of worms with this one :)





The answer is an emphatic YES.





Lets go over one. A person has guard and throws up an arm bar. The person on top defends the arm bar by taking that one arm out, leaving one arm in. The person on bottom uses the one arm in to go for a triangle. The person on top goes to defend the triangle by reaching his arm back around the arm that has the shoulder trapped. The person on bottom now switches to an omaplata. The person on top defends by taking the leg that is the top of the figure four and squeezing it tightly in to the other leg, causing a lot of pain, then the person on top pulls his arm out passes to side control then to mount. The person on bottom bridges out and winds up on top in the other persons guard. ((Edit)) Now they do the same thing all over agin but the position is reversed.





This is an example of a two person kata. Though it sounds complicated it really is not once you have seen and done it. it takes a while to fully understand some of it. It shows you thing to do and things to not do and lets you know the consequences of some of the common mistakes you are bound to make.|||^ thats true but I wouldnt really call that a form. I consider that more of just drilling or flow grappling. They dont really have traditional formal forms or whatever but like the guy above me said a lot of the drilling of techniques are pretty similar.|||Does BJJ have katas? No. Do they have forms? You better believe it.