React Street Combat Jujitsu
React Combat Jujitsu
Welcome to the art of Yoshin Ryu Jujitsu, The purpose of the system is to allow its practitioners to train for Self Defence. The art was used in the form of Takagi Yoshin Ryu Jujitsu by the Edo Police in the capturing of Ronin Samurai which makes the system adaptable for today’s law enforcement agencies, Security Officers and Door supervisors as well as people just wishing to defend themselves against the ever increasing violent world we live in. Although this is an ancient system the relevance to today’s society is ever increasing with a rise in violent crime and the ever present fear of attacks from weapons.
Chief Instructor
Shihan Harris has been training in martial arts for 25yrs and is the founder and chief instructor of React street combat Yoshin Ryu Jujitsu. He has studied traditional martial arts such as Yoshin Ryu jujitsu and Takagi Yoshin Ryu Jujitsu. Shihan Harris holds black belt ranking in Yoshin Ryu Jujitsu, Ninjitsu and Combat Jujitsu he also has experience in traditional and modern weapons, Judo, Kenpo Karate, Israeli martial arts and unarmed combat (while serving in the armed forces). Shihan Harris has been a night club door supervisor for over 18yrs working in pubs and clubs around the south of England and has also written a course on control and restraint for door supervisors and security staff.
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The History
Historically Yoshin Ryu Jujitsu, the Willow Heart School or the Willow Spirit School presumably founded by Akiyama Shirobei Yoshitoki, a physician from Nagasaki, is one of the Edo-period jujitsu schools that is best known here in the West. This style or ryu dates back to sometime before 1671. Yoshitoki felt that the jujitsu techniques he had learned were not sufficient in number, so he retreated to Tenmangu Shrine, where he devoted himself to meditation for one hundred days, during which time he developed 303 techniques of his own. One snowy day when Akiyama Yoshitoki was still on retreat in Tenmangu Shrine, he happened to notice a willow tree on the shrine grounds. Despite the recent heavy snows, this willow, unlike some of the other trees on the grounds, did not have even a single branch broken. The Willow branches simply yielded and allowed the snow to fall off, thereby saving the tree. This yielding principle was not only understood to be an essential element of the warrior arts of ancient Japan, but have been perfected through the test of time.
Classical Fighting Arts of Japan,A Complete Guide to Koryu Jujutsu
Serge Mol, 2001
Can't Get To the school?
Can't get to the school? The American Federation of Jujitsu offers training videos and DVD's so you can train in the Art of Yoshin Ryu Jujitsu from your own home.
