Readers of this blog will know that for the last couple of years I have taught at the USMAA National Training Camp in St Louis.
I will be there again this July. However, before then I will be hosting a regional training camp for the upper mid-west. The camp will run from Thursday 02 26 15 through Saturday 02 28 15 The logistics are still being locked down, but the camp will include: Law Enforcement Control Tactics ( One on One Control Tactics - O3CT)
Counter Ambush and Edged Weapons Defense
Takedowns
Ground Skills
Weapon retention and High End Use of Force
Traditional Japanese Martial Arts (Judo - Karate - Aikido)
Jui Jitsu (Sweeps and Guard passes)
Pre-competition fighting methods (Catch Wrestling / Bare Knuckle Boxing) WWII era Combatives Reality Based Self Defense Warrior repair , maintenance, and longevity training (Want to keep rolling after 40? Check out this class)
Dojo business and marketing (Some of the best teachers in America train in a church basement and have 5 students - This class is designed to help them continue to do what they love and grow their schools) Some of the Instructors we have lined up include: Gary Rudenick from Kato's Kodokan Judo and Jujutsu Omar Ahmad from Katamedo Jujutsu Randy King from KPC Self Defense Julio Delahuerta and Colleen Hillesheim from (Q) Querencia Fitness More names to follow as they are confirmed The camp will be held at The Mermaid Convention Center 2200 County Road 10 Mounds View MN 55112 Seminar costs: $150 3 day pass ($75 savings) - $125 for USMAA members ($100 savings) $75 / day ($25 savings) - $65 for USMAA members ($35 savings) $25 / class - $15 for USMAA members ($10 savings) A registration page will be up shortly on http://www.kpcombat.ca/
and or judomn.org
More details to follow but I wanted to get this information out as soon as possible.
James Bond will return in - Project Goshin (Que theme)
Goshin Jutsu has been on my mind a lot lately.
Dillon and I have been working on the Keishoukan Budo Syllabus
for 2015.
Incorporating Dillon’s Karate instruction as a regular part
of the “Dirty” Judo class.
As such I wanted
to make sure that our Atemi Waza covered all of Judo’s Atemi Waza.
In doing so I discovered that good information on Judo Atemi
Waza is difficult to find. Usually just
a chart of anatomical weapons to use and another chart of vulnerable points on
the human body that are good to hit.
Can you imagine if throws were taught this way?
This is a picture of your hand use it to grab him. Here are some places that are good for grabbing.
The strikes of Judo Atemi Waza are rarely taught as they cannot
be used in randori or shiai.
Mostly they are in the Kime no Kata and Goshin Jutsu Kata.
"Applying techniques of throwing and grappling to which
body attack techniques are added, Kime no Kata is formulated to aim to acquire
the most basic and effective way of defending ourselves from unexpected attack
of others. The practice of Kime no Kata aims to study not only the principle of
defense and counterattack but also the principle of manipulative body movement.
In the practice of Kime no Kata, tori and uke should breathe in good harmony
with each other, and further, tori has to work his body manipulatively without
laying himself open to an attack of uke." Kata of Kodokan Judo Revised,
1968
Kime no Kata, also known earlier as Shinken Shobu no Kata
(Combat Forms), was developed as a Kodokan kata around 1888.
*judoinfo.com
The Kodokan Goshin Jutsu was created nearly 70 years later in
1956 by a Kodokan working group to update the older kata with more modern forms
of self-defense. It also shows the influence of Kenji Tomiki, one of Professor
Kano's students, who also studied Aikido under the founder of Aikido.
The intent in this kata is different than with normal Judo
practice, in that this is a self-defense kata, the intent on the part of both
participants is to hurt the other. While the actions are controlled, so that
the attacker is not hurt, the defender's actions can easily be modified to
disable the attacker.
*judoinfo.com
"I seek not only to follow in the footsteps of the men
of old, I seek the things they sought."
- Matsuo Basho
What was Kano seeking in the use of Judo for self defense?
“to acquire the most basic and effective way of defending
ourselves from unexpected attack”
“the defender's actions can easily be modified to disable
the attacker.”
I seek those things too.
I don’t need to copy them exactly from 1888 of 1956 I need to focus on
universal principles that allow one to defend from unexpected attack and
respond in a scalable fashion depending on the goal as dictated by the circumstances.
Fighting to the goal - 3 reasons to use force:
·Escape
·Control
·Damage / Disable
"Judo is the study of techniques with which you may
kill if you wish to kill, injure if you wish to injure, subdue if you wish to
subdue, and, when attacked, defend yourself."
- Jigoro Kano
The more I look at incorporating fundamental striking to achieve
those goals the more “old timey boxing” or “BKB” Bare knuckle boxing makes
sense.
Here is an example form Carl (Judoka and WWII combatives
Instructor)
Old school Bare Knuckle
The fundamentals of BKB may appear silly to modern boxers
but they made perfect sense for their time place and purpose.
That most closely matches up with the needs of personal
protection (Goshin Jutsu)
Those principles are what are needed for effective self
defense striking and have a common core with the striking of WWII Combatives
and pre-war or Okinawan Karate.
Boxing removed from sport rules applied to personal protection
has been embraced in the Filipino Martial Art Panantukan or “dirty boxing”
Panantukan is just boxing unrestricted by sport rules. As such looks a lot like old timey BKB boxing
and old Karate.
Just as judo unrestricted by sport rules is the devil ( I
mean that as a compliment to its effectiveness) and looks a lot like old timey catch wrestling
The principles that work are the same and survive the test
of time no matter what you call them.
K.I.S.S.
Keep
It
Simple
Samurai
As I mentioned in the last blog when looking with a critical
eye at Nage Waza (throwing techniques)
I have begun to think that a stone has too many moving parts.
What do I mean by this?
The more parts (bells and whistles) the more things can go
wrong.
Better served by a few very solid principle based skilled
sets that work against nearly everything.
“to acquire the most basic and effective way of defending
ourselves from unexpected attack”
“the defender's actions can easily be modified to disable
the attacker.”
As opposed to trying to memorize a specific technique as a
counter to every possible specific attack.
Learn to handle what happens most and you can handle most of
what happens.
In Japan a 3 hour Judo class is the norm. In the west that may seem extreme. Many successful commercial schools offer a variety
of 1 hour classes.
I find one hour very limiting and I do this for my fun and
personal development more than as a business so like Sinatra said I have to do
it my way
Average American martial arts class – 60 Min
Probably 20 min warm up, 20 min skills, and maybe 20 min
drills
This is how we roll
Keishoukan Budo class 21/2 hours (150 Min)
15 Minutes Warm up
45 Minutes of Striking
-That is a lot of striking for Judo class.
That is more striking than a typical Karate or Boxing class.
-Why so much you may ask. If the need for striking skill for personal
protection hasn’t already been made by
the first part of this blog, allow me to include a portion of Omar Ahmad’s
White Paper on Katamedo Jujutsu
A practitioner of Katamedo JuJitsu will be
able to compete equally in any grappling or mixed martial arts setting.
Katamedo stresses that the principles of grappling are constant, as are the skills
involved... The principles of the arts are common, only the rules differ. As
such, a JuJitsuka must also learn the principles and tenets of atemi waza, or
striking, which are common to many traditional arts…. The most confident
fighter is one who can compete on equal ground no matter what the rules.
Or as Bruce Lee said...
Continuing...
40 Minutes of Ground Skills
50 Minutes of Standing Grappling
And once a week we add an additional 30 minutes of Randori
(Freestyle)
One of the reasons Judo replaced Jujutsu was randori and
shiai. Being able to go full out against
a resisting opponent. The allowed
techniques were paired down for safety but that training methodology gave Judo
(any art Wrestling , Boxing) an advantage against those that offered no such similar
training.
Military Schools, and Police Academies used to have Boxing, and
Wrestling clubs (sometimes Fencing clubs too) for this very purpose.
I have ranted before how today’s youth going into careers
that use force professionally have never been in a scrap.
We cannot teach them the same old ways.
I want to offer a relatively safe way to learn those hard
lessons.
So in summary, Project Goshin is my quest to use Judo to defend
from unexpected attack and respond in a scalable fashion depending on the goal
as dictated by the circumstances for:
• Professional
use of force
• Personal
Protection
In order to do that I have further incorporated the principles and tenets of atemi waza, or
striking, which are common to many traditional arts (Karate and BKB Boxing)
Further to provide safe ways to pressure test skills and
expose students to resistive conflict we will have weekly fight nights
exploring different styles of free style training for the different aspects of
combatives.
-ONE STEP
-NE WAZA
-NAGE WAZA
-ATEMI
WAZA (Kumite / Boxing)
-JYU WAZA
-RANDORI (FREESTYLE JUDO Rules)
“I have found that anyone who trains in a system and uses
sport or stress training is way better off than reading every violence dynamic
article and book you can get. But just so you know, you should do both. Educate
yourself in self defense and sport.”
- Omar Ahmad
If anyone would like written out rules / explanations of how
we do those freestyle drills hit me up in the comments.
In conclusion I want to end with promoting Freestyle Judo
You can check out their site from the link above but I
wanted to include this excerpt:
Freestyle Judo - The way Judo ought to be
There is only one Judo, and that is the Kodokan Judo of
Jigoro Kano. Judo is more than simply a sporting event; rather, it is a
complete martial art that has adapted over the years to various fighting styles
and techniques. Kodokan Judo includes techniques from wrestling, sambo, and of
course modern jujitsu. However, over the past two decades many of these
fighting styles were discouraged, and eventually penalized, in tournament Judo
for reasons cited as "better television viewing". Unfortunately, the
resulting rule changes resembled Greco-Roman wrestling in a kimono, all the
while professional Mixed Martial Arts grappling gained in television
popularity.
Freestyle Judo brings back the "Golden Age" of
Judo competition by embracing the fighting styles of wrestling, sambo, and
modern jujitsu. Competitors who specialize in standing techniques can throw for
ippon. Wrestlers who prefer lower body attacks can shoot for the legs.
Grapplers who specialize in submissions have the time and flexibility to fight
on the ground. All of these styles are good Judo.
A judo coach observing a Freestyle Judo match for his first
time remarked; "That looks just like judo." The answer was;
"That's because it is judo. It's just judo the way it ought to be
done." Good judo is good judo and the rules of Freestyle Judo allow judo
athletes to use all the skills of judo during a match.
Freestyle Judo encourages participation from Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestlers, and Mixed Martial Arts enthusiasts by providing an
open-ended competition format.
Freestyle Judo is endorsed by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, World
Judo Champion, former president of the USJA, and mother of Ronda Rousey, UFC
Champion and 2008 Olympic Judo Bronze Medalist, as the "Ultimate Judo
Style for MMA".
Freestyle Judo is an outgrowth or continuation of judo as a
sporting activity with adaptations in how a judo match is scored making it an
interesting and positive approach to judo competition. It's most definitely not
our intention in any way replace the Kodokan Judo of Jigoro Kano. Judo, as a
combat sport, has stood the test of time and whether people realize it or not,
has been the technical and theoretical basis for many other combat sports as
well. There is only one judo and that is
the Kodokan Judo founded by Professor Jigoro Kano in 1882. How people view a sporting event is directly
affected by the rules of the game. Judo is no different. The rules of the sport
of judo have changed through the years, and as is the case with any physical
activity, these changes in the contest rules affect how people teach, learn and
train in judo. Freestyle Judo's rules offer athletes and coaches another
opportunity to compete and dispay their skills in the sport of judo. Freestyle Judo is not intended to replace the
existing rules of judo; rather, Freestyle Judo offers more competitive
opportunities for everyone who takes part.
Freestyle Judo is not a different "system" of
judo. Good judo is good judo. The rules of Freestyle Judo encourage all the
skills and strategy of good judo to be used.
Freestyle Judo uses a numerical point scoring system for
both throwing and ground fighting. This provides an objective set of criteria
for allowing the athletes (and not the referees) to determine the winner and
loser in the match.
Freestyle Judo is Judo, the way your sensei did it. If you are old enough to remember how judo
was done in the 1960s through 1980s, you will remember that judo is really a
combat sport. Freestyle Judo allows all the elements of good judo to be used in
a safe and fair way. No soft or rolling Ippons and the referees allow the
athletes time to engage in newaza. Freestyle Judo is not for the faint of
heart. It is what judo was intended to be as a combat sport.
Freestyle Judo is the only form of sport judo that includes
a "no-gi" category. Basically, no-gi Freestyle Judo is "judo
without a jacket."
You can have the sport of Judo without the art. But you cannot have the art of Judo without
the sport. Freestyle Judo rules even if
just for in house randori give a solid foundation to enhance the art through
the sport.
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