In this course, Hardee Hakutoshi Merritt shares hard-earned personal insights into the secrets contained in this kata and the context behind each step. Adding this drill to your practice can go a long way toward helping you prioritize movements and understanding your options on the ground.
Learn advanced skills, locks and ground defenses. Master Norris and An-shu Hayes guide you through lessons for dealing with dangerous ground attackers. This course covers many new stand-alone skills, as well as shows you how to put all three ground course skills into a flow drill.
Master Norris and An-shu Hayes take you through answers to even more challenging ground situations, giving you tools and techniques to defend, control, and end the fight, as well as drills to help you polish your techniques.
Learn fundamental ground defense skills from Master Norris and An-shu Hayes. This course covers common ground attacks, core defenses, ways to reposition for control, and ways to create space to escape.
Think you can’t win against three attackers when you’re on the ground? Think again. Join Master Dennis Fuutoshi Mahoney as he teaches techniques and principles to defend yourself in a three-on-one attack.
In this course we will be exploring how to apply an “Oni-Kudaki” shoulder/elbow lock with our legs from underneath and on top of our opponent in addition to a few other escape sequences from the bottom “side control” position.
In this course you’ll be guided through three common arm locks with instruction on how to apply the locks and how to escape them as well. Three “straight” arm locks and a very common “bent” arm lock will be explored in depth so that you have the knowledge that you need if you ever find […]
Explore two ground positions and two escape options that can help you turn the table on your opponent. Ground fighting has become increasingly popular due to the rise of televised Mixed Martial Arts competitions, but it has always been something that needs to be addressed if you are going to have a complete self-protection skill […]
The Guillotine choke is an attack that can be used against us by practitioners of jiujitsu, mixed martial arts, and even relatively untrained individuals because of its simplicity. Properly applied, this choke can render a person unconscious in a matter of seconds, so it is imperative that we know how to prevent and escape from […]
In this Master Level Seminar we look at the beginnings of Ninja Ground Fighting, a very different perspective then what is currently considered ground fighting. This course looks at ways of taking your opponent to the ground under control so that there is no opening for them to fight back from the ground.
Uki-gatame, or the “knee-on-belly” position strategies. Utilizing proper techniques and transitions to maintain positional dominance in a self-defense scenario that goes to the ground.
Explore Yoku-To specifically from the “mount” position, where we can employ the same strategies on the ground that we practice in the standing version.
In this course, we will explore several options to “Get To Your Feet” if you’ve found yourself knocked, or drug down to the ground in an altercation. Reversals are the fastest way, when they work, to regain the top position to ultimately get back up to our feet and away from the attacker.
This second installment of our “Get to Your Feet” series will cover what to do if our first plan didn’t pan out for us. If we can’t immediately get off of the bottom then lets transition to a position with more options and try again.
Explore some techniques related to the Santo Tonko no Kata from Togakure Ryu, showcasing several of To-Shin Do’s standing “sutemi waza” (sacrifice throws) and how they can relate to some sweep options from the ground, all with a “Santo Tonko” energy.
