Personal Self Defense Through Awareness

Too many times I see it: The mother pushes her shopping cart up to the car, opens the passenger door, deposits her child into the car seat, shuts the door and THEN goes to load the groceries into the car. What is wrong with this picture? I’m certain most of you do the same thing [...]

Gendai – Modern Jujutsu Schools

Jujutsu is generally divided into two major groups: traditional (koryu) and modern (gendai) schools. These classifications are based on the time of development of particular jujutsu school (style, Ryu). There are at least three commonly used definitions of “koryu” and “gendai”. The most accepted analysis uses the Meiji Reformation as the time of demarcation between [...]

Pressure Points in Martial Arts

Pressure Points Categories If you move amongst the martial art chat rooms and magazine articles you will find a lot of talk about pressure points. And true to form, there are always those who believe in them (passionately) and those who do not (just as passionately). Both camps have their reasons why they believe as [...]

Attention Yoshiki Goshinjutsu Club Members

To all the club members that have been missing for a couple of weeks. Please be advised that we are putting Monday night training on hold while the syllabus is revisited and adjusted through to 5th Dan. Experience has shown that the workshop night we are running does not have sufficient time or depth of [...]