Jujutsu - Tsutsumi Hozan Ryu - Jujutsu or Jujitsu
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Up
until 1978 students were taught by 'put your foot
here', 'lift like this' etc. Any relationship
between a technique and any other techniques was up to the student to work
out for themselves. In 1978 Shihan Jan de Jong, after studying Aikido a
decade earlier and then working with the Special Air Service Regiment (The
SAS is an elite force within the Australian Army) to develop an Unarmed
Combat System, decided that it was time to bring the hidden BASICS out into
the open.
It was decided that was necessary to teach the basics of the system to the beginners, rather than to the higher Dan grades as had been the custom. This was done in order for students to gain a complete understanding of the system from the very beginning.
Shihan
Jan de Jong considered that
many children and adults had trouble learning the set of techniques that
form the Kyu Gradings and needed to understand how the techniques were
developed from the basic set of techniques and principles. The object
nowadays is not to keep the BASICS secret but for everyone to understand
from the very beginning.
The System:
The majority of Tsutsumi Ryu techniques are built up from a basic set of body movements, locks, throws, take downs and pressure points the majority of which depend on the attacker being unbalanced to a considerable degree. The object is to get out of the way of any attack and always to keep the attacker off balance while applying a throw or lock.
Strategy:
Tsutsumi Ryu defences are based around two simple strategies.
1. Get as close to the attacker as possible and try to be behind them.
2. Always, when attacked by multiple attackers, place one attacker between yourself and all other attackers.
Other principles are of course involved but are based on or are part of the above two strategies. For instance in Tsutsumi Ryu we always defend from the leading foot and leading hand but which hand and foot is forward will change depending on the attack situation. With this in mind there is no such thing as defences for left and right hand attacks, only defences that are done on the defenders left or right side.
References
1 "American Wresteling vs. Jujitsu." H.F. Leonard. K. Higashi. The Cosmopolitan, May 1905.
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Jujutsu - Tsutsumi Hozan Ryu - Jujutsu or Jujitsu