Gen_Tora

You place a penny on the brick you want to break, that way all the psi goes to a smaller area instead of being channelled into the first brick. You also hit it a special way, to channel the energy throught the bricks not into a brick.

Thats wgy you stomp kick the knee, or foot or use their chest to guide a finger gouge into the throat. It's actually easier to strike someone in armor then grapple them. Plus not all jujitsu was for the battle field...

I don't consider it a simple mix, I've also seen aspects of boxing or kick boxing, & as stated earlier old school greco-roman which is nothing like modern or olymic wrestling.

No taijutsu is jujutsu, by another name. Taijutsu/jitsu has become linked to ninjutsu because of Hatsumi & Hayes. But its actually a stand alone niche form of jujitsu. Its like Aikijujutsu & kenpojujutsu are of course all still jujutsu.

Who cares what it looks, make sure their dead. What they gonna do call in a psychic to testify for the ghost? Like I told the guy 2 weeks ago who threatened to "gut me." Brings friends 2 or dead bodies makes self defense easier to prove. Besides the way the law, if you don't run away to get shot or stabbed in the back, it wasn't self defense...

I prefer a .45 caliber "hadoken" more knock down power, and I sat two rounds in the chest, one in the head. If they get up run it's a zombie Besides a cop friend of mine said his unit was switching from the 9 mm cause someone had shot a guy point blant in the forehead & he still manage to stab her once before going down. Something about the round bounced off the skull or the curvater (sp) of the skull. So I'll go with .45 Caliber

I used to try be like that with my students, never really work out. Too much misconception involved.

I'm not sure when I studied Omoto Ryu Ninjitsu, I was told knowledge was a gift. And as a gift it no longer is my sensei's but mine to own & use. So that when I pass it onto someone else it will no longer be Omoto Ryu but "my art." Which I chose to name after the nickname sensei Omoto gave me, Gen Tora, even though it was only a half serious thing. I know the Okinawans followed the same concept as well as many Japanese stylist... So

I don't teach anyone below 13 for that reason, but did you talk to him afterwards & explain things? Did you call his parents & tell them what he did & recommend thet they talk to him about it? Otherwise whoopy you yelled, I got yelled at as a kid, my mom still yells at me & I'm 25 now. At best you scared him, at worst you scared him & he didn't understand the full consiquences of his actions which can lead to bigger issues.

But this guy in 10 years still has bad form & doesn't remember kata, which you said right? Right, so why give him his black belt? As far as the origion of the black belt stuff, some schools didn't even have a belt system. And all belt ranking was derived from Judo... Funakoshi & Makoto Gima had at one point demonstrated karate at the Kodokan Judo School & even had dinner with Sensei Kano afterward. In traditional non-sport jujitsu & karate-jitsu full contact bare knuckled fights were common practice. Belt rank was non existant, so you were a sensei when your sensei said so or you could beat him in a fight. Since until Funakoshi demonstrated karate to the Japanese martial arts were outlawed as open practice in okinawa, most styles weren't that systemized. Infact the ryukyu islanders as Japan calls them, don't like to be called Japanese or have anything to do with Japanese idealogoy. The Okinawans who were chiefly influenced by the chinese, & follow a taoist philosophy while most japanese follow a shinto or buddist philosophy. The never wash your white was Kano's origional adaptation to the Japanese belt system. But, it came about after Jugaro Kano created the Japanese belt system. See this site for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_belt_(martial_arts) Most commerical schools in the world have a belt system & the people who still train father to son, father to son don't need a belt. You do what dad's says or move out & train on your own lol.

Never saw shooto, & yes BJJ, atleast to me, looks like judo & old style greco-roman wrestling (which included chokes, arm bars & leg locks), not WWF theater wrestling or high school greco-roman. Oh yeah is shooto similar to shoot fighting or something?

I've always been controlled, I started when I was 2 pitty I'm getting wilder in my old age lol

Depends on the style or niche or jujitsu jujitsu: a generic term from martial during the shoganate periods taijitsu: a style often thought of as ninjitsu based but not entirely so, taijitsu fouces on positioning, movement & useing the body's natural weapons. Heavily focused on striking & grappling. koppo-jitsu or koppojujitsu: comes in 2 general formats a stryle that heavily focuses on using joints of the fingers, knee & elbows to attack various points of the body or as a style that attacks the joints. yumbi-jitsu or yumbi-jujitsu also called koshijitsu/koshijujitsu: A styel that focuses om muscle grabs & using finger point/knuckle strikes against vital targets Kenpo-jitsu: military style of kenpo often used by ashigaru (footmen) kenpo-jujitsu: A very lethal form of jujitsu blending kenpo & jujitsu, focues on pressure point strikes, bone breaking & stand up grappling. Was only taught to the royal family & royal body guards karate-jitsu: Another form of japanese kenpo-jitsu taught to common footmen & was often confused with karate-do in the modern era. Now add as many as 5,000 to 8,000 families in japan's ancient history from nobles to peasants perfecting their own "style & name." Some styles are still only passed down within a given family tree. Hope this gives you an idea of how much variety there is in jujitsu & how many systems exist.

Just remember all americans carry guns lol

Thats what insomnia does for you, gives you plenty of time to practice lol

My own, I'm considering reinventing my shotokan break down kata in to 2 or 3 solo forms & go toward the more chinese okinawan flavor. At which point it won't shotokan any more

There is an idea, a street dojo hmmm.....

Since youe a striker, I say start with... 1) Basic rolls & falls 2) For the ground start with a) fighting from being mounted & b) then using the mount. 3) A few basic chokes; sleeper hold, cross colar & gillatine 4) Basic Wrist Locks (inside & outside) & atleast a cross arm bar (standing & ground) 5) Trapping applications of blocking techniques. Where I start, depends on what I'm teaching... Shotokan I focus on attack & trapping from blocks, then grappling from blocks. Ninjitsu I teach falling & rolling, blocking, trapping & positioning. This is a set up to striking & "trap boxing" skills, which lead to trapping & locking a limb while strike in a smooth fluid montion. Kinda slow starting out but sppeds up quickly at higher levels. Street Jujitsu I teach closing the gap & getting in close, trapping/infighting & unkemi first.

Been that way here to the only bif commerical school here is a tournament focused karate dojo. really suck to, because they never win anything. Too Politically correct & really training hard would cost allot of students.

Elbows, When he died in a car crash he & his 6 (?) top students died with him. Some of his lower ranking students have kept his training alive in Japan, but if you ain't Japanese you won't be able to study with them. Also allot of his concepts were taught to Japanese Intelligence Services & Imperial Guardsmen. He had one student, who served with him in Burma & went on to found his own style of Karate, but I don't recall his name. Since only one style of ninjutsu is reconised in Japan, as koryu. The modern inheriters of the arts while viewed as authentic can not be proven. Fujita's grandfather had burned his scrolls & was never going to claim a successor. Fujita's ability could not be challenged as he had proven it many times in military opperations & public challenges. The Bujinkan can not prove their ninjutsu school as the origional scrolls where destoried in a bomb raid. However, at the time in Japan effectiveness was more important & any effective art was viewed as auhentic.

I studied Dim Mak & Kosho, I also read Seiko Fujita's Book on Kusho. Which was in part a collective study of Martial Art pressure points, from multiple style. These same points where tested on POWs by a "panel of experts" these experts where basicly Sokes & Shihan of different MA styles. There is/was scientific research done on this subject by the Japanese Government during WW2. As far as the Dim Mak being a striking are, it's not. There are muscles, tendons & arteies which are grabbed to induce a KO.

No you can't blame only the Americans, the Japanese messed karate up with commericalization pretty badly. Since Funakoshi was Okinawan by birth, after his death allot of japanese students wanted to make karate in japan better then karate in okinawa. Bare in mind that in Japan & the rest of the world Okinawa is called the Ryu Kyu (school boy) Islands of Japan. Now tell an Okinawan he's Japanese You'll have a fight on your hands lol I belive any martial art with a largely commerical base will become warped over time. There are already 15th Dans in some systems, I was so happy with my shodan in shotokan (still am) when I first got it. Sadly by todays standards I'm godan or something, I've used shotokan techniques that some of the local sandans never saw before.

Heres a question, my partner & I are getting bacl to full-contact Karate with shotokan in the dojo. He deals with karate in the school. Any way do we rename the art since it won't be shotokan endorsed by the USKA or JKA or just another karate org? Or just leave it where its at in the dojo?

Yet we all see the fear in the BJJ guys eyes, through their typing. monkey mojo or whatever has you all scared admit it? The first person to take this post seriously will get a super wicked eye popping slap from my dim amk key board of death... lol Hey any one want some ocean front proerty in death valley?

I got this from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC#UFC_rules Fouls: 1. Butting with the head. 2. Eye gouging of any kind. 3. Biting. 4. Hair pulling. 5. Fish hooking. 6. Groin attacks of any kind. 7. Putting a finger into any orifice or into any cut or laceration on an opponent. 8. Small joint manipulation. 9. Striking to the spine or the back of the head. 10. Striking downward using the point of the elbow. 11. Throat strikes of any kind, including, without limitation, grabbing the trachea. 12. Clawing, pinching or twisting the flesh. 13. Grabbing the clavicle. 14. Kicking the head of a grounded opponent. 15. Kneeing the head of a grounded opponent. 16. Stomping a grounded opponent. 17. Kicking to the kidney with the heel. 18. Spiking an opponent to the canvas on his head or neck. 19. Throwing an opponent out of the ring or fenced area. 20. Holding the shorts or gloves of an opponent. 21. Spitting at an opponent. 22. Engaging in an unsportsmanlike conduct that causes an injury to an opponent. 23. Holding the ropes or the fence. 24. Using abusive language in the ring or fenced area. 25. Attacking an opponent on or during the break. 26. Attacking an opponent who is under the care of the referee. 27. Attacking an opponent after the bell has sounded the end of the period of unarmed combat. 28. Flagrantly disregarding the instructions of the referee. 29. Timidity, including, without limitation, avoiding contact with an opponent, intentionally or consistently dropping the mouthpiece or faking an injury. 30. Interference by the corner. 31. Throwing in the towel during competition