Shobudo Bujitsu Jujitsu Metro Detroit

uld encompass the principle of Ju, or the concepts of suppleness, yielding, and flexibility. In this, we do not mean that one is training to give way, only that one is training not to resist force with force, but instead utilize the opponent’s strength and momentum to control their movements and, by extension, them. Training in Shobudo Jujitsu is comprehensive and covers a wide range of techniques, including striking, throws, joint-locks, chokes, weapons training, meditation, and more. However, it is primarily an unarmed art, focusing on joint locking techniques and other techniques meant to control an opponent by attacking their weak points and affecting their structural alignment. Within the art of Sho Bu Do lie many sub-disciplines, as in most martial arts. Of primary initial interest to students are the physical techniques of an art, although the mental and spiritual disciplines are equally or even more important. Open hand techniques taught include joint locks, throws, strikes of all sorts, pressure point and nerve techniques, chokes, and weapon defenses. Weapons training includes both one and two person kata and single techniques with tanto (knife), jo (~4' staff), rokushaku bo (6' staff), yawara bo (short stick), and yubi bo (lit. finger stick). Most techniques are done from a standing position, although we do train in seated and ground techniques as well. Movement is an essential part of any martial art, and is especially emphasized in our studies, as it forms the basis of off-balancing and control of any opponent's movements. Mental training in tactics, awareness, conflict resolution and focus is done throughout, with more emphasis is placed on these at higher levels of training. The majority of our techniques are oriented around a set of eight principles.
■1st principle - Also called nikyo by aikidoka. This is a bent wrist wrist lock (kansetsu waza).
■2nd principle - Kote gaeshi in all of its myriad forms. Another kansetsu-waza.
■3rd principle - Also called sankyo by aikidoka. Kansetsu waza with or without bent-wrist.
■4th principle - Also called yonkyo by aikidoka. Nerve holds, especially those affecting the radial nerve in the arm and the corresponding nerve in the ankle.
■5th principle - Armbars of all sorts and forms, including shoulder locks.
■6th principle - Chokes, both blood and air and various head and neck controls.
■7th principle - Throws of any type.
■8th principle - Pressure points throughout the body. Strikes and entries (atemi) are worked into these principles as necessary and training in atemi is done both separately and as an integral part of applying the principles and other techniques to an opponent.