Here are some techniques of jujitsu that include:

• Chokeholds – Chokeholds are banned for the most part.  However, those participating in judo are allowed to do it.  This technique is dangerous because a person’s windpipe could be cut off and the opponent would be asphyxiated.

More people use strangulation because it can be done without fatal consequences.  Jujitsu has many alternatives to choking methods.

• Joint Locks – This technique involves grappling and manipulating the joints of an opponent to where the joints reach a point where they can only move so far.  With joint locks, a person can experience different levels of joint pain.  If this technique is applied with force or very sudden, it can cause injury, dislocation or fracturing of the bones.

Joint locks can affect five different areas such as leg locks, arm locks, spinal locks, wristlocks and small joint manipulation.  Joint locks can also be used in hand to hand combat or the disabling of an opponent by tearing the knee or elbow joints.

• Grappling – A lot of people use the grappling technique.  This was used in the early days in conjunction with Jujitsu.  Nowadays, grappling is used in sporting games where it is safe to do.  Grappling is in the same league as striking.  This works when the defender is using techniques and strategies in order to defeat their opponent.

Grappling techniques are important when it comes to self-defense purposes.  The ones that are used the most are hold escapes and compliance techniques for pain.

There are three subcategories it is used in:  throws, joint locks and pinning techniques.  There is no middle consensus with this because the locks are connected with throws and that may lead to a pin.

Another subcategory is called sweeps and escapes.  This is used to make a ground fighting position better by going into a position where locks and pins can be used better.  Grappling is used in different fighting systems.

There are some that are strictly used for grappling. Some of them include:  amateur wrestling, judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.  Also, these systems do not include striking.  Mixed martial arts (MMA), which is part of combat sports, allow grappling while keeping striking at the same time.