Nihon Jujutsu

18/01/2018

One guess what we review this Saturday...

18/12/2017

人一能之己百之、人十能之己千之。果能此道矣、雖愚必明、雖柔必強

If someone else gets it in one try,
I will try one hundred times.
If someone else gets it in ten tries,
I will try one thousand times.
If you are able to follow this Way,
then even if you are stupid,
you will become enlightened.
Even if you are weak,
you will become strong.

'The Doctrine of the Mean' 中庸 (JA: Chûyô, CH: Zhongyong)
ca. 500 BCE

04/09/2017

We discussed blows to the vagus nerve, just below the jaw's rear. Watch closely and note how many of these knockouts are blows to the vagus nerve. And the use of sweeps to set up the blows.

04/09/2017

Some ask if judo is effective on the street and why we finish with judo throws.
Watch.
What's harder to see is the armbar, and the forearm crammed into the neck of his assailant.
Mostly unnecessary - watch the assailant's arms and legs. Not a single twitch.
But, he also doesn't have backup to deal with, either.

23/08/2017

From our friends at the Bartitsu Society. Bartitsu, the martial art of the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes, including some eclectic European arts, incluind this cane instruction. It reminds me of the short stick techniques of Nihon Jujutsu, perhaps crossed with Uchida Ryu Tanjojutsu.

21/08/2017

Smackdown, right into the Donut of Death!

11/08/2017

I find only a little problem with the bowing of za rei itself but what I find is some problems with how we kneel down from a standing “yoi” position. From your yoi (musubi dachi) position you have two ways to kneel down. One is to kneel down without moving your feet (the way I…

08/08/2017

Gunji Koizumi, a pioneer of UK judo, who started as a jujutsuka until Kano shihan recruited (and promoted) him as a judoka.

09/05/2017

Food for thought - and just happens to coincide with our thinking - one of the best self defense training may be Nihon Jujutsu plus judo. PS - author / judoka Barry Eisler is a former CIA clandestine service officer, Kodokan judo yudansha, and resident of Tokyo. http://www.barryeisler.com/coolstuff_martialarts.php

Thriller writer Barry Eisler, international thriller writer and creator of the John Rain Series