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Soke Hausel applies jujutsu restraint to Kyoshi Stoneking (photo courtesy of Sensei Luis Juvier).
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Karate and
jujutsu continues to be an important part of my life as I continue down the
karate (
martial arts) path. On Okinawa,
karate, or
tode, originally incorporated throws, kicks, punches, chokes, pressure point strikes, intense body hardening, and tools as weapons and today, many of the traditional Okinawan styles of
karate still incorporate all of these other aspects of
self-defense. Thus it is not unusual to see Okinawan
karate practitioners follow up with a powerful block on a pressure point with a devastating strike to another pressure point and finish with a throw and restraint or choke combination.
Sometime after I was
certified as
sokeshodai (
Grandmaster) of
Seiyo No Shorin-Ryu Karate Kobudo Kai (TM), I decided to incorporate much of my past
karate and
jujutsu training into my
martial art.
Shorin-Ryu Karate already included many techniques common in
koryu jujutsu nage waza (combat throws) as well as
waza developed against
samurai and
kobudo weapons. So instead of continuing to offer separate
jujutsu certifications to my students at the
University of Wyoming, I decided to incorporate all of my
martial arts education into
Seiyo Shorin-Ryu.
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Lacy uses taiotoshi (leg drop) nage waza
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Seiyo Shorin-Ryu students, whether at the
Arizona Hombu dojo (
martial arts school) on
Baseline Road on the border of
Mesa with
Chandler and
Gilbert, or in Utah, Wyoming, Maryland, Southeast Asia, etc, focus on
karate and
kobudo, but they also are encourage to train in our
samurai arts as well as learn many
self-defense applications (
bunkai) in our 70+
kata that include the traditional
jujutsu throws, restraints and chokes. Now all of our students learn
jujutsu along with
karate,
kobudo and the
samurai arts which better prepares all of them for
self-defense and provides a more rounded
martial arts education.
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Ude garuma (armbar) (photo courtesy of Sensei Luis
Javier) |
But it still remains the philosophy of our art to learn a one-punch or one-kick knockout strike used prior to any kind of nage waza. In Arizona, people sweat and are slippery and it is easy to lose your grip on a slippery person, so any kind of restraint or throw works much better with an added strike. And as always, we teach our students to defend rather than be aggressive.
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Sensei Linton applies te kubu waza (wrist lock technique) during self-defense training at the Arizona Hombu. |
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Training at the Arizona School of Traditional Karate on Baseline Road near Country Club. |
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Hojojutsu (restraining samurai arts) at the Utah Gassuku |
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Restraint applied to attacker following throw |