Defensive Tactics & Law Enforcement Martial Arts

Law Enforcement • Bodyguard • Repossession Agent • Security

Skills That Can Save Your Life!!!

The big difference between Taiho Jutsu and the other arts IS: How we teach it. Skills must be executed Legally Quickly Effectively.

- A Historical Perspective -

What is the difference between the techniques in Taiho Jutsu and Ju-Jitsu, Aikido, Judo, Chin-NA, Harwangdo, Karate, Kung-Fu, Tae kwon do, DimMak, Kyusho Jitsu, Etc.Etc.? NOTHING!!

What is the difference in the application of techniques between them? EVERYTHING!!

Ju-Jitsu; the “gentle art”, Judo; the “gentle way”, Aikido; the “spiritual way”, Karate; the “empty hand”. Old Karate; the “China hand”, Kempo (kenpo); the “The Fist”. It wasn’t until 1936 that karate was called anything else but “The Hand” it was around 1920 that Gichin Funakoshi changed the Kangi to “Empty Hand” however most everyone called it “The Hand”, they just said it in different languages. The main reason people changed the application (approach) of the “art” is because the LAW CHANGED! It all basically started with BodiDarma C.527 when he brought from India to the shaolin temple a method of physical conditioning for intensive meditation. About the closest thing we could call it today is Qi gong (chi kung etc.etc.). Without getting into an in-depth historical dissertation (maybe later), the shaolin monks over many years developed this training into an effective martial art when they became the “Police Force” or “Commandos” for whichever War Lord needed their services. At some time during this developmental period a monk traveled to a temple in Japan and Wola!, the beginnings of today’s Jujitsu. Then the LAW CHANGED in China! The War Lords felt the shaolin monks were getting out of control. They had to change their training methods to disguise the application or approach of the techniques so they wouldn’t get in trouble. A few hundred years ago in Japan and Okinawa the LAW CHANGED and the Okinawans had the same problem. Then again in 1868 the law changed and Jujitsu in Japan had to change. This set the stage for the birth of Aikido and Judo. They used the excuse that it was spiritual or sport so it would be acceptable to THE LAW. In Okinawa karate was changed, they used the excuse that it would benefit the health of the kids in middle school and it was “the law” Itosu sensei a police chief who did it. The police however pretty much had a free “hand” in the techniques they used clear up into and through the 1970’s. My father was a deputy sheriff in Riverside County California in the 1930’s. He told me they would shoot the bloated bodies to let the gas out of hobos who had fallen off the train. Can you imagine that happening today! Until 1989, if you were a demonstrator you could legally get your head busted by police riot baton for not getting off the street. It was not until the 1989 case “Graham v Conners USSC” that many law enforcement agencies even had a procedure manual for the “use of force”. The Japanese, however in 1947, were actually identifying to their officers specific techniques that were documented in a manual, ”Taiho Jutsu”. Taiho Jutsu, can be used as an international name for “Continuous Police Defensive Tactics”. Taiho Jutsu is a constantly changing art as THE LAW constantly changes. The arrest procedures will change with the laws however the self defense techniques that have proven effective over the centuries may remain “a constant” as long as we slide them up and down the use of force continuum as the LAW CHANGES.

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