A brief description of the Art
Unlike anything else you might think about when it comes to Martial arts training; Tatsujinkan Bujutsu is not a sport, just like any Bujutsu has never been a sport. Those people trying to “sportify” this type of Martial arts are on the wrong path. This is realistic martial arts and street fighting – Bujutsu; meaning “War skills”.
Here you will find all aspects of the Martial arts; be it strikes, kicks, throws and takedowns etc. Also there will be training with numerous weapons, like knife, sword, chains etc. Likewise there will be training in different strenghtening disciplines, balance exercises, agility and body movement. You’re not gonna score any points, there are no rules to abide by, and therefore also no rules to protect you. Your would-be assailant is gonna abide by no rule or referee; he has but one intention- which is to kill or injure you one way or the other. If you learn to fight with rules, this is also how you will react in a real situation.
The first things you’re gonna learn is how to most effectively eliminate your weak points, your openings for attack. Then you will learn how to look for, and create openings for attack in your assailant. Here are no stiff and dead patterns, no blueprints of this and that; what can be used, should be used. Every situation is unique- there are always numerous factors to be taken into consideration.
Here, as everywhere else, you must use a lot of time and dedication to learn all the fundamental movements, principles of balance, strategy of distance, footwork and all the different throws, locks, strikes and kicks; these are things that needs to be drilled thousands of times. I wanna quote one of my favorite instructors on this; “Practice it a hundred times, and you have it in your mind; practice it a thousand times, and you have it in your muscles; but do it ten thousand times and you have it in your bonemarrow- where it should be!”
Still it is not the fundamental techniques, no matter how important they are, that sums up the essence of the martial arts; it is the living and always changing “henka”- variation and aliveness. The advice you’ll be given when you leave the lesson is- “forget everything you have learned, be like nothing and therefore like everything”. There is “Ri”- principle, and there is “Ji”- technique; both are inportant, but principle is definitely more important than technique. Without “Ji”, but with “Ri” you can go a long way. On the other hand; “Ji” without “Ri” is useless, and in the battle with a trained assailent you will be quickly subdued no matter how many techniques you know, if you lack principle.
四 拳 波 羅 蜜 大 光 明
Bujutsu Go-Ho
Tatsujinkan Bujutsu is roughly divided into the following cathegories:
- SEISHIN TEKI KYOYO- The Warriors spiritual lore; emphasizing philosophical concepts and various meditations.
- TAIJUTSU- Unarmed combat against both unarmed and armed assailants. Consisting of the following three subcathegories:
– Kosshijutsu: Muscle-, tendon-, and acupressure strikes.
– Koppojutsu: Attacks against the body’s hard structure; i.e bones, ligaments etc.
– Jutaijutsu: Throwing, locking and wrestling techniques.
- TAIHENJUTSU- Physical strength and conditioning; mainly compromising these disciplines:
– training with ones own bodyweight(+ added weigth)- for example pull ups, push ups in various forms and core exercises.
– different acrobatical maneuvers, breakfalls and so on.
– training with different “strengthening tools”; like kettlebells, iron bars etc.
– jumping techniques.
– Yoga-like exercises.
- BUKI- Different weapons like guns, knives, chains and many others; also traditional weapons like sword, spear, bow& arrow etc.
- SEISHIN RYOKU- Practices for mental power and forbearence.
四 拳 波 羅 蜜 大 光 明
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