BUDO FOR BUDOKA

Kano Jigoro, the founder of Judo, stated.... "...In my youth I studied jujutsu under many eminent masters. Their vast knowledge, the fruit of years of diligent research and rich experience, was of great value to me. At that time, each man presented his art as a collection of techniques. None perceived the guiding principle of jujutsu. When I encountered differences in the teaching of techniques, I often found myself at a loss to know which was correct. This led me to look for and underlying principle in jujutsu, one that applied when one hit an opponent as well as when one threw him. After a thorough study of the subject, I discerned an all - pervasive principle; to make the most efficient use of mental and physical energy. With this principle in mind, I again reviewed all the methods of attack and defence I had learned, retaining only those that were in accordance with the principle. Those not in accord with it I rejected, and in their place I substituted techniques in which prin...

 The World Budo Development Society has the following membership criteria. 1. Applications are welcome from all martial artists that come from a Japanese/Okinawa based form of Budo.   2. All applications should be completed by appropriate documentation on request. All information via Neil Horton on neil.horton64@hotmail.com.  

In order to best explain the form of Chin Na or Qin Na, I have taken an extract from the book, "Comprehensive Applications of Shaolin Chin Na" by Dr Yang, Jwing- Ming. Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming was born on August 11, 1946 He started his wushu or kung fu training at the age of fifteen In thirteen years of study (1961–1974) he became an expert in the White Crane style of Chinese martial arts At age sixteen, he began the study of Yang Style Taijiquan He attended Tamkang College in Taipei to study physics He studied Shaolin Long Fist in college (1964–1968) "....Qin (Chin) in Chinese means "To seize or catch" in the way an eagle seizes a rabbit or a policeman catches a murderer (Qin Xiong). "Na" means "To hold and control". Therefore Qin Na can be translated as 'seize and control'. Generally speaking, in order to have effective and efficient fighting capability, almost all Chinese martial styles include three categories of techniques. The firs...

  The word jujutsu, to use the older nomenclature, is written with two ideographs, the first   ju , meaning “to obey, submit to, weak, soft, pliable”; and the second   jutsu , meaning “art” or “science”. The use of the first character is intended to imply that jujutsu relies for its triumphs not upon brute strength but upon skill and finesse, the ability to win by appearing to yield. Thus in jujutsu the opponent undermost may have the other at his mercy, though to the novice he may appear to be defeated. Jujutsu is the art which every samurai under the feudal regime was compelled to learn, and it was often a point of honour among the higher-minded ones, if attacked by a vulgar opponent, whether with or without a weapon, to try first to overcome him by means of jujutsu before drawing their own swords. Authentic stalwarts such as the redoubtable Chobei of Bandzuin, the Father of the Otokodate of Yedo, and the equally formidable Funakoshi Juyemon whose astounding exploits ag...

  A CENTURY OF CONFLICT 1314-1398 THREE RIVAL CHIEFTAINS BID FOR CHINESE RECOGNITION Tamagusuku was only nineteen years of age in 1314 when he succeeded his father as paramount chief or king among the territorial lords on Okinawa. The administration fell into confusion; he could not command the loyalty and respect of his principal officers. Disputes at Urasoe soon led to open rebellion. The Lord of Ozato left Urasoe and retired to his own castle on a high bluff about ten miles south of Urasoe and a little to the southeast of the present-day fishing port of Itoman. His retainers and associates controlled all of southern Okinawa. Each had his own stronghold on a rocky hilltop, from which the surrounding farms and woodland could be controlled. Today the broken walls of these enclosures may be traced at many sites, a number of them scattered over the rolling countryside which became the last battleground of World War II. Ozato Castle was the largest of these. Little is left of it; a mo...