The essential nature of jiu jitsu is control leading to submission. All the various forms of control have a common theme – to restrict, stop and direct movement. Ultimately your goal is to make an opponent's own body unable to respond to the commands and wishes of his mind and thus, to make your mind master of his body. Then you have true control.
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