This club is reserved for students that have passed the beginner level Kosen Judo / Jujutsu  Program.

It is a fact that most fights end up at some point on the ground. In order to hone the necessary skills required for competition, we have formed this specialized class. Members of Team Tengu represent the Dojo in both regional and national grappling tournaments as well as Mixed Martial Arts Ultimate Fighting Competition at the professional level.

TEAM TENGU MEMBERS COMPETES AT REGIONAL NAGA TOURNAMENT

The ancient Jujutsu styles also had ground fighting, but not so much in the sense of wrestling or newaza as it is today. Ryu such as Takenouchi-Ryu and Yoshin-Ryu had disarming techniques (kansetsu) which focused on breaking the bones in the arm so that the soldier could no longer wield a sword or spear. There were also techniques resembling modern Hadake Jime (naked choke) which attacked the Kobuto (helmet) in order to break the neck. The kenjutsu
(sword) schools often practiced positions like open guard and do shime (guard) and mune gatame (chest lock) when the fight went to the ground, although they were more focused on how not to get stabbed with a katana (sword) or tanto (knife). After the dissolution of the Samurai class in the 1800's, schools began to focus more on empty hand arts - and two schools in particular had a large body of newaza techniques - namely Fusen-Ryu and Jikishin-Ryu.

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Classes will focus on these areas of study and practice:

• Takedowns
• Mount Offense and Defense
• Guard Offense and Defense
• Cross Body Offense and Defense
• Arm Locks
• Leg Locks
• Head Locks
• Chokes
• On the back positions
• Setups
• Breathing
• Drills

Fusen-Ryu Jujutsu was founded by Takeda Motsuge in the early 1800's. Motsuge was born in 1794 in Matsuyama Japan. He studied jujutsu since a young age and by his late teens was considered a Shihan and was teaching in Aki. He had studied Nanba Ippo-Ryu from Takahashi Inobei. He also studied Takenouchi, Sekiguchi, Yoshin, Shibukawa, and Yagyu-Ryu during his lifetime. As his style came together at about the same time as the dissolution of the Samurai class, it developed mostly toward unarmed combat. Fusen-Ryu finally became an art that focused almost exclusively on ground fighting. This may have only been in several branch schools, as certain other branch schools of Fusen-Ryu still exist today, and they do not focus on newaza.

Around the turn of the 20th century, the Fusen-Ryu master Mataemon Tanabe challenged a new jujutsu master to the area - Kano Jigoro. His new jujutsu style had challenged several of the old style Jujutsu schools to contest and had beaten them easily. So Mataemon Tanabe's school fought Kano's school and won every match - not trying to throw, but going right to the ground and doing arm locks, leg locks, chokes, etc. Thus was the real birth of newaza as a science. Kano was so fascinated with the ease his judoka were beaten that he persuaded (and perhaps paid) Tanabe to reveal the core of his technical strategy. Over the next few years, Kano assigned several of his top students to focus exclusively on this newaza. Soon, newaza was "absorbed" as part of the Judo syllabus, and Judo began to spread across the world.

TEAM TENGU

Kosen Judo is the name given to the style of Judo practiced at Kosen schools in Japan at the turn of the 20th century. Their training is best known for the extra focus given ground grappling techniques, referred to as newaza Japanese martial arts. Kosen Judo is still taught at 5 universities in Japan. One example is Hirata Kanae's dojo in Japan. He died in 1998, but the dojo still continues at the Chuo Sports Center in Tokyo. There are several schools in the United States including the Myofu An Dojo which is Headquarters to the International Kosen Judo Federation. Then there is Brazil, which started with Maeda. Mitsuyo Maeda began training in Judo in 1897, and became one of the troublesome Kosen Judoka who was sent abroad with Tsunejiro Tomita. Traveling in the US, Maeda outshone his senior Tomita, defeating wrestlers and fighters that had beaten Tomita. Tomita and Maeda went their separate ways - with Maeda going onto the early fighting circuit for money. He even travelled to Europe where he lost the only two matches of his life against a Catch Wrestler. He spent extra time with the wrestler learning some of those techniques. Finally in 1915 Maeda settled in Brazil where he taught Carlos Gracie, the son of a local politician. Carlos Gracie and his brothers adopted the Kosen Judo techniques and developed them further during the 20th century into what came to be known as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.