If you have special needs or if you have an interest in a particular part of the syllabus, we will do whatever we can to try to help you. Although Jitsu does have a formal syllabus, it should be regarded only a teaching and assessment tool. All you need to bring is yourself, and some clothes that you can exercise in such as a tee shirt and tracksuit bottoms. About the best thing you can bring is a friend. Obviously, lessons vary enormously, but this is a typical pattern.
All sessions begin with a warm up.
This will start with general exercises and then move on to stretching with particular attention paid to body parts and movements that are important to what you will be learning. There will then be a very brief ceremony to mark the start of the lesson. To do this, the students will line up in grade order and they and the instructors will formally greet each other. Any new people are introduced and welcomed. The first part of the lesson is almost always breakfalling practice.