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Goshin Jutsu and Basic Principles
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In the early stages of practice a visitor to our Dojo will learn basic principles that are applicable to all martial arts. Such principles include: Posture (Kamae), Centre (Seiki Tanden and Mushin), Movement (Tenshin, Tai Sabaki, Tai No Shintai) and the principle of Yielding (Ju, Go No Sen) as well as Striking (Atemi, Kyusho). At the same whilst these principals are being learnt Goshin Jutsu (Self Defence) techniques are taught and practised. The aim is to integrate the principles into the practise of Goshin Jutsu in order that Tori-Te (Taking or capturing hands) can be learnt.
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Tori Te and Tuite
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The term Tori means to capture and Te means hand. The term Tori Te may therefore be described as a means of capturing the hands or using the hands for capturing. The aim of Tori Te is to capture and restrain an opponent as in the case of an official making an arrest. This art is an early form of Taiho Jutsu (An art used to restrain people). The emphasis in practise at this stage is developing ones ability to restrain and control an attacker using Goshin Jutsu techniques such as Shodan Ge, Nidan Ge and Sandan Ge (these are similiar in some respects to Aikido's Ikkyo, Nikkyo and Sankyo, though they are not the same) . The Okinawan name for Tori-Te is Tuite.
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Muto
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The grappling aspect of Nihon Go Shin Kage Ryu from what is called the Shoden level (5th Kyu Green Belt) is known by the Japanese terms of Mu To. Muto in this context simply means No Sword and is a name for empty handed grappling techniques often performed against an armed opponent. There is also a corresponding Zen concept with Muto which is Mushin or an emptiness of mind.
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Mutou
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Mutou is also the name of a Okinawan grappling art which formed the Basic hand techniques which were eventually combined with Chinese striking and kicking techniques of the Fukien Chaun Fa/Gung Fu styles in order to become the Te of Shuri and Tomari. It was these Te's of Shuri and Tomari that were to form the basis of the Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate styles. In Naha, from where the much later Shorei Ryu Karate styles of Uechi Ryu and Goju Ryu evolved there was a much later combination of Chinese internal martial arts arts with the local hand to hand grappling art known as Tegumi explaining the emphasis on grappling techniques in the Shorei Ryu styles. The term Tegumi is also now used to describe an Okinawan form of Sumo.
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It is believed by some that Japanese Ju Jutsu may have had at least part of its origins in Sumo's predecessor known as Suma and in an art known as Tori Te a Japanese term for a predecessor of Japanese Ju Jutsu that simply means taking hands.
Muto techniques work on the outside of an opponent in order to apply grappling techniques in which a weapon yielding opponent is disarmed and an unarmed one restrained, his hands are thus taken (Tori Te).
In Hakuda Ryu the Shorei Style grappling is known as Tegumi whilst a more refined form of grappling is found in Nihon Go Shin Kage Ryu which is called Mutou. All of these forms may be regarded as Tuite, the grappling aspect of Kempo.
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