This course covers grabbing attacks and limb restraints from the side and rear, as well as tackle takedowns. An-Shu Hayes and his instructors cover in depth technique details, drills, and target work, designed to give instructors tools to create dynamic earth level classes!
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Instructing Earth: Front Attacks
This course covers front striking attacks and limb restraints from the earth element. An-Shu Hayes and his instructors cover in depth technique details, drills, and target work, designed to give instructors tools to create dynamic earth level classes!
Instructing Water: Grabbing Defenses
Learn grabbing attacks and defenses from the water element. This course covers in depth technique details, drills, and target work, designed to give instructors tools to take water level classes to the next level!
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Instructing Water: Striking Defenses
Explore striking attacks and defenses from the water element. This course covers in depth technique details, drills, and target work, designed to give instructors tools to take water level classes to the next level!
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Magical Escapes
Explore some of the key 6th Degree To-Shin Do Black Belt principles and techniques with An-shu Stephen K. Hayes.
Kai Soku
Guided Meditation: Rejuvenation!
Breathe in. Breathe out. Feel the energy in your body. Try this meditation when you need to feel more alive, awake, alert and aware.
Training:
Kuji Kiri
An-shu gives a from-the-heart explanation and interpretation of training in spiritual protection power projection for martial artists, the ninja legendary Kuji Kiri. An-shu takes you through a step-by-step process for learning the mechanics of the ninja Kuji Kiri grid of 9 syllable slashes, setting you on the path of progress towards personally building protector power presence.
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Gyaku Nage Kata
The Kuki Shinden Ryu taijutsu exercise Gyaku Nage was most likely originally taught as a way to learn to fight an adversary in Japanese samurai armor. That is how my teacher first taught it to me in Japan in the 1970s.
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Step by Step
- Begin with free tactical movement from the kosei no kamae.
- He executes a right punch.
- Counter with a left forearm hit to the inside of his right arm.
- Follow with a chin-ken fingertip spear to the lips.
- He counters by leaning his head back.
- You follow with a right kick to his left knee.
- He counters by pulling his left leg further back away from the kick.
- He continues with a left punch to your face.
- You counter with a right defensive strike to the inside of his left arm.
- Grab his left wrist with your right hand and execute a left chin-ken strike to his lips.
- He counters with a right defensive strike to the inside of your left arm.
- He sends his right back at you as a chin-ken to the face.
- You counter with a left defensive strike inside his right arm.
- Grab his right wrist with your left hand, throw a right chin-ken claw at his face.
- Grab him by the lips with your right hand, and throw him with a right leg osoto gake.
Sword Mastery Series – Happo Giri Kata
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To-Shin Do Happo Biken Happo Giri is one of the Kuki Shinden Ryu nine secrets of the sword as taught to Toshitsugu Takamatsu in late 1800s. An-shu says, “The principle of ‘cutting the cut’ looks like a simple way to win when your adversary underestimates you, but you need bravery, precision, and well-practiced skill to make it work. We show you the secrets for Happo Giri as part of our dojo’s program for earning 4th Degree Black Belt, as I learned it in Japan from my teacher in the mid-1970s.”
Guided Meditation: Here. Now.
An-shu guides you through a meditation designed to help you be in the present moment.
Training:
Kamae Postures
Introduction to Ukemi
Path to Mastery
Techniques to understand the wind element will bring you closer to your To-Shin Do Black Belt. Body positioning, kamae, and timing are the keys to success.