Small Circles of 5 Animals Jujitsu

Welcome

Welcome to the official Small Circles of 5 Animals Jujitsu website. This website was created to honor the art, the Elders and students. While browsing you will find some of the history on the art itself and its Elders (kikeyjumhet). The site will continue to be updated with more information as time progresses.
On behalf of the Small Circles of 5 Animals Jujitsu tradition, we thank you for visiting.

Events

Newest Blog Article - True Warrior Training
April Blog Article - Global Combat 101

June 2020:
The state of Vermont continues to ban all gatherings; camps, festivals, faires and other close-quarter group activities due to the COVID-19 insanity. The state government has stated this ban could easily extend through the entire summer and perhaps into autumn.
Therefore class and camps here at Small Circles of 5 Animals Jujitsu remain on hold.

Grappling

As a style of Jujitsu the art contains large areas of grappling techniques from control and leverage, balance and speed, locks, breaks, chokes, joint manipulation, throws, accuracy, submission, holds, pressure points, animal movement, strikes, take-downs, bars and escapes.

Weapons

No form of traditional Jujitsu would be complete without the study of weapons. Weapons such a knife (tanto), long sword, (katana), short sword (wakazashi) short stick, cane, rope, and staff. We have an entire area within the art just studying Combat Kenjitsu.

PHILOSOPHY

Small Circles of 5 Animals Jujitsu has a rich philosophy of both Samurai and Native American. Both the Virtues of Bushido and the Native American Warrior Code are taught and upheld within this diverse art.

Striking

Also as a style of traditional Jujitsu the art focuses on strikes from the hand (knuckle, palm, ridge and side), foot, elbow, shin, knee, forearm and other areas of the body.

Internal

Small Circles of 5 Animal Jujitsu focuses heavily on the internal arts as well. Practices such as the study of the organs and meridians, the 24 hour organ biological clock, flow of internal energy at various levels, cavity pressing/strike, blood pressing/strike, muscle grabbing, meditation, leveled breath work, heart opening, mind opening, triad mind unification and personal philosophy.

COMBAT

This is a specialized area where the primary focus is on Bu-Sabaibaru, survival combat, which deals in close-quarters tactical combat situations.

Quick links to internal site pages containing videos:

Kenjitsu Video

Combat Training Video

Fire Strikes In Snow Video

An Old warm-up with double-edge knife

Please feel free to browse the site to find out about the art itself as well as the original and current Elders.