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The more i read along it seems to me that the style i practice is a very effective, if not ideally traditional, form of ju-jitsu. We practice everything that is needed if conflict is an inevitable event. Strikes from a compact and therefore strong in all areas stance. The ability to move from one form of defence to another and likewise with offence. As was stated in the above mails 'there are no rules' and 'if it works, use it', regardless of the name of the style you practice or the colour of your belt, at the end of the day a belt is only there to hold your trousers up!

Wow! does look complex but if your on the bottom as seen and can use your right leg as a distraction it could easily work! If not, tuck that left leg in behind his thigh and flip him over! Is this Brazilian ju-jitsu inluenced by any chance?

Fairfax hit it for me too, ive always aimed for the next belt and from there ive aimed for the belt and what is needed of me. However, slight words when my last grading was 10 years ago and that was my black belt! Im now 21 and my exodus from goshin Ju-jitsu has just fed my need for a target to be reached. Im itching to take my 2nd dan in 2 years time but by then i want to spread the knowledge ive learnt from other martial arts in the last 10 years to the other students i work with. Through joint strength we all grow stow methinks!

My Bruce Lee story goes a generation further! My father saw Bruce Lee on the big screen when he was a kid(ish), he got hooked on the apparent fad at the time. in 1984 i was born and by 1986 i was running at him from one side of the room to other as he threw me in a tome-nage into the sofa! I started properly when i was six as i idolised my father and tried to do whatever he did but better! By then he was a fist dan black belt Judo sen-pi and had just started ju jitsu with the legendry Ray Wonacott in Cardiff, Wales. I got my Cadet, Shodan-Ho when i was 11 under Wonacott and when i was 18 gained my Shodan status (finally!). My second dan will surely come in 2 years when i believe i am ready. My father is still one of my instructors and currently keeps the tittle of 4th dan black belt.