This was one of the first posts from Summer 2009 when we were setting up and populating the Boards
It was a very simple explanation, one post and a few lines, as many were back then, and has never been expanded on or added to over the fifteen years
Apart from the fact that I am now Fifth Dan in Jujutsu there was no real update
Because of the way we address NINPO, looking at the scroll lists for the 6 schools, we can view the root schools of JUJUTSU in the same way
The KEMPO is the same list of techniques
- to make KENPO KARATE you group them in Forms, as with any KARATE, and not our focus
KITO Ryu Jujutsu is the primary source for JUDO
A powerful KORYU system of Grappling and Close Quarter Combat it contained the more deadly versions of the WAZA we see in Modern Judo - throws, pins/breaks, and chokes - initially developed from grappling in YOROI armour
This where KODOKAN Jujutsu was developed into a more modern Unarmed Combat Self Defence System and was later refined into JUDO for safer practice and competition
the KODOKAN is, or course, where the Modern Kyu-Dan belt grading system was started
Shihan Maeda, "Count Combat", taught the more NEWAZA based version of what was still called KODOKAN JUJUTSU to the GRACIES
GRACIE Jiu Jitsu was refined from this
The DAITO RYU school has AIKIJUTSU as well as KOBUDO, specifically Sword and Jo staff
It is from here that AIKIJUTSU was refined into modern AIKIDO
Pre WWII Aikido was more combative, the modern IWAMA style being refined after
The YOSEIKAN Aikido was kept similar to the pre war and is more AIKIJUTSU
DAITO RYU was once described as "Aikido on steroids" which may be how it would appear to someone coming from a background in the Modern Dojo Aikido
Professor TOMIKI refined AIKIDO into a more sportive method, added a form of Randori, so it became closer to Modern Judo
KITO Ryu - KODOKAN - JUDO - GRACIE
DAITO Ryu - YOSEIKAN - AIKIDO - TOMIKI
So in our system of Kyushindo Jujutsu
we take the Combative mindset of the KITO and DAITO Ryu, just as we do with the main 6 NINPO Ryu
we look at the modern DOJO methods of JUDO and AIKIDO
we look at the refinements made by TOMIKI and GRACIE
To make the Modern KEMPO JUJUTSI aka KEMPO GOSHIN JUTSU
we add in the KEMPO strikes, refined down from Chinese KUNG FU to Ryuku KEMPO, that was refined as the three Okinwan TE, that became the Japanese KARATE DO
this KEMPO striking system is far more detailed and superior than the basic ATEMI systems that are part of AIKIDO and JUDO
There is nothing here we have no written elsewhere or said in Class, it seems a good way to summarise as we move into the second quarter of the new century, taking the teaching forward to the next Generation
