A great two-day Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu (良移心当流 柔術) course in Kemsing, Kent last weekend and a great group of people training (both in person and via online streaming of the course). This course also represented a celebration of my 45 years in Ryōi Shintō-ryū. We covered the Kihon waza (基本技) techniques: Kamae (構)(Shizentai  自然体, Jigotai […]

I don’t know who wrote it, but the Ryōi Shintōkai (良移心当会) is now mentioned in Japanese Wikipedia - Ryōi Shintō-ryū page as: 良移心当会イギリスロンドンで伝承。i.e “Ryōi Shintōkai Tradition in London, England.” See: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%AF%E7%A7%BB%E5%BF%83%E5%BD%93%E6%B5%81?fbclid=IwAR0wXgdPvYfTBk5Ba6lMwVd02P-TshbkvNIbUJD_lU8O5jRQVKNhg20Qghk

The Ryōi Shintōkai (良移心当会) is pleased to be associated with the Kodō Butoku Renmei (古道武徳連盟 Old ways Martial Virtue Society). This organisation was founded in 2002, as modern thinking group based on the traditional values of Japan and Okinawa's martial arts traditions.The Kodō Butoku Renmei was the brainchild of Stephen Grayston, who serves as Kanchō […]

Further to Eric Shahan's post, regarding his translation of the Keikan Hikkei Kenpō Zuka (警官必携拳法図解 - Policemans Illustrated Kenpō Handbook) by HisatomiTetsutaro (久富鉄太郎). From Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsu – Nakamura Hansuke's (中村 半助) Japanese Wikipedia: "In the 10th year of the Meiji era (1888), together with Masaaki Samura (Takeuchi Santo-ryū), Shogo Uehara (Ryōi Shintō-ryū), Hisatomi Tetsutaro […]

My thanks to Kōsen Jūdō no kenkyū 高專柔道の研究 for this picture from an article (in Spanish, but translated below) regarding Yokoyama Sakujirō (横山作次郎). This was when he was about 22, or 23 years old and would have been around the time that he fought a match against the Ryōi Shintō-ryū Jūjutsuka – Nakamura Hansuke (中村 […]

Once again my thanks to Eric Shahan for another post about Chin Genpin (陳元贇) this time from volume 10 of ‘Bugei Shoden’ (1714) by Hinatsu Yasuke (日夏弥助), which states that: "According to the Kenpo Hiketsu (Secrets of the Fist) what is known nowadays as Jujutsu (yawara) was called Ken (fist) in the Bubishi 武備志. Long […]

Although this item by Eric Shahan refers to the Tenjin Shin'yō-ryū (天神真楊流), Dokko (独鈷 - 'single pronged vajra') is also one of the major kyūsho (急所) included in the 'Ryōi Shintō-ryū Wajutsu Kyūyō no Maki' (良移心當流和術九要之巻).

Interview with Yagyū Koichi, 22nd Sōke of the Yagyū Shingan-ryū (柳生心眼流), which was one of the foundations of Ryōi Shintō-ryū. Ryōi Shintō-ryū founder Fukuno Shichirouemon Masakatsu (福野七郎右衛門正勝) was a ‘ ‘Tatsujin’ (達人 – master expert) of the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. Yagyū Koichi, Sōke explains the difference between low kamae during the armoured Sengoku Jidai (continuous warfare) […]