Todays Samurai School of Self Defense

I just want to say thank you to Charleston self defense academy instructors and students for having me out for the weekend to teach Goshin Budo Jujutsu. There were amazing Judo and Aikido instructors here. I can’t recommend this place enough if you’re in the Charleston area.

There is a great seminar coming up in Charleston SC if anyone is in the area or able to travel there. I will be teaching the Jujutsu portion as well as gun defense. There will also be instructors teaching Judo, Aikido and knife.

Fall Fusion Fest 2024 We will explore many traditional Japanese Martial Arts: Judo, Jujutsu, and Aikido. Everyone will learn from all and improve their training.

I took a photo of the healers that keep everyone healthy and able to keep going in addition to tending to injuries during the Greatest Camp on Earth. Everyone give a lot of themself trying to help others. I am honored to learn something from each of them as they do different things from se fuku jutsu, massage and other arts and I contribute with Koho Shiatsu Igaku. Unfortunately I couldn’t find Katie at the time of the picture.

I just want to thank "Greatest Camp on Earth" The Martial Arts Camp that you don't want to miss for having me out to teach again this year. As always there were many talented instructors and judoka. This years headliner was Flavio Canto. He is truly amazing and I got to roll with him a few times.

I just wanted to say thank you to the Greatest Camp on Earth for having me out this year for my 5 th year of teaching Goshin Budo Jujutsu and working shiatsu in the healing room. I took my daughters this year who did great training about 7 hours a day. They kept commenting that it is the greatest camp on Earth. Judo, BJJ and Japanese Jujutsu…..what could be better? I’m guessing there were around 300 people from 28 states

I want to say thank you to greatestcamp.com and the “Greatest Camp on Earth” for having me out to teach Goshin Budo Jujutsu again this year and work shiatsu in the healing room. Thanks to my students Luke Sullivan and Jeff Cohen for helping me teach. As always there are lots of amazing judoka and instructors. It truly is the greatest camp on Earth with teachers like Sensei’s Reser, Roethke and Ryan. A great showing as usual with people coming from 26 states and instructors teaching Judo, Japanese Jujutsu, weapons and weapon defense as well as BJJ. This years main headliner is Jeon Ki Young who is a 3 time world judo champion, winner of the Olympic Gold metal in Judo and 6 time Judo world games champion. He was amazing.

I have been training for 38 years between Japanese Jujutsu and Judo. For the past 27 months, I’ve been training at a great BJJ school because I wanted to elevate my ground game. I’m glad to be part of Mooresville BJJ and coaching kids. They have been posting videos of live rolling during open mat and other times and two of our brown belt coaches do commenting on the roll, what they see, what was missed and suggestions about the roll. I think it’s a great tool for anyone who does or wants to do BJJ. Please feel free to check out the video and if you like it, please subscribe to the channel. They will be putting out more content soon but there are several videos to check out. Here’s one.

Big Mike Enters the Mat - Open Mat Breakdowns Coach Matt and Coach Mike break down matches from the 1/1/22 and 1/2/22 open mats.**************************--- Follow us on ---***************...

We came to NY for 3 days of great training with Sensei Tom Fressle. Sensei and I also had a few students testing for rank. Congratulations to Sensei Frank Demasi for receiving his third degree black belt (Sandan), Anthony for receiving his 3rd degree brown belt (Ikkyu), Luke Sullivan for receiving his sankyu (1 st degree brown belt) and Martin for receiving his 6 th Kyu (orange belt). Everyone did a great job and worked very hard. I’m especially proud of my student Luke from NC.

Thank you for having me out to teach again this year for the 3 day Greatest camp seminar. There are a lot of talented instructors here teaching and I’m honored to be among them. There are many world class Judoka, BJJ and Japanese Jujutsu instructors and practitioners here from 24 different states as well as a few from outside the US. I can’t recommend this enough.

Being a police officer is a difficult job. Especially in today’s environment where so many people seem to be against you and cameras are everywhere. You may be perfectly legal in what you do but it may be easier for your department to fire you to avoid bad press. You could have law suits, social media and the TV media all come after you for something you did in good faith or out of fear for your life.
The point of some of these videos is to show how you can use the concepts of Jujutsu and adapt them. I have slightly adjusted the techniques we do in Goshin Budo Jujutsu, to take strikes out (unless they are needed) because they don’t look good on camera and rarely accomplish the desired affect. Pain compliance doesn’t look bad on camera and doesn’t do permanent damage in most cases. For law enforcement, we should try to use pain compliance and verbal commands to get to effect an arrest with as little physical force as possible while trying to not injure the person being arrested as well as protecting the police officer. If needed, there are ways to dial up the pain compliance if the person is not obeying your commands. Many Law enforcement officers lack the proper martial arts training and resort to sheer or blunt force, less than lethal or lethal force as a basic human survival instinct. With the proper tools, you can keep officers and arrestees safer.