That's what Ju jitsu (also spelled as jujutsu, jujitsu, jiu jitsu, jiu jutsu, jitsu, jutsu) literally means. It is a fascinating martial art developed around the principle of using an attacker's energy against him, rather than directly opposing it.

This morning I was treated to a display of this principle at a training class conducted by an internationally acclaimed 1st 4th Dan Black belt in Goshindo Jujutsu, Maul Mornie, who conducts training all over the world. Here's the best bit... Maul is a Seria boy like myself, and I happily discovered this morning that he's the nephew of my deputy channel manager on #Brunei IRC

In fact, today was his last class in Brunei before he leaves for a four week martial arts seminar tour of Europe. I will be interviewing Maul shortly about his journey to becoming the martial arts expert that he is today. In the meantime, here are some of the pics from this morning's session: