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Shinjido literally means Danny’s Way, a label given by one of my
students to the variety of techniques that I have developed for martial
art. I attempt to find the easiest solution to a problem either in
attack or defence. My work is based on sound principles and the
techniques serve to demonstrate the principles. I have applied this
approach to judo starting from the premise that our sport is fighting
within specific rules and limitations.
Imagine that we lived
in a closed society and our Glorious Leader suddenly decrees that we
would enter international sport competitions including Judo. Suppose
that we had never seen Judo and were just provided with a book of rules
and given the objective of the sport. No doubt we would come up with
some techniques that resembled Judo but doubtless we would discover just
as many techniques that did not. Our sport has changed over the years.
Some lament the change and feel that we have gone too far down the
wrestling route. I am a pragmatist. Let the best man and the best skill
win; provided they are within the rules. Please click
here for a page of photos from the January 17 2010 Shinjido seminar
with Kosei Inoue. |
