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Here is a demo reel of him from last year... though this has a lot of empty hand in addition to some weapons. Everything that's weapons related in this demo reel is 100% Yamanni-Ryu Kobujutsu. You can see how it evolved over the past year to what's in the TMNT weapons demo.

For those that are interested in Aidan's background information: http://www.qchron.com/editions/south/meet-the-karate-kid-from-howard-beach/article_fec1cfb3-2432-5006-a842-056c226963c6.html Thanks for supportive words!

For those that are interested in the composition of the material: The bo and sai techniques are almost 100% Yamann-Ryu (Toshihiro Oshiro lineage), those there is a very short sequence of Matsubayashi-ryu strikes thrown in there. So yes what you are seeing there is Okinawan Kobujutsu. The double sword is contemporary / creative (Kalmon Csoka lineage). To my knowledge all of the traditional Japanese double sword uses the short sword and long sword but if somebody knows something about double long sword in traditional do tell, I'd love to find out about that. There is of course double sword in Chinese / KungFu / Wushu but I don't have any formal training in that art. The double chux are also contemporary / creative though only a single strike made it in there. It's really hard to balance the creative and traditional aspect of that weapon is what I realized when I put this together. I need to work harder to figure that out for sure. The high energy body movements are from Peking opera / Wushu as well as contemporary tricking. Thanks for the interest! If you do like what you see please support his efforts by sharing and reposting with friends. Thank you!

With the upcoming release of the TMNT reboot movie I thought it would be interesting to make a demo reel showing how the four ninja turtle weapons are used in real life without any computer graphics. Check out this demo reel: