Norway Goshin Ryu Ju - Jitsu |
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| Training Times | Infants (5-8 yrs) |
Juniors (8-13 yrs) |
Intermediates (13-16 yrs) |
Adults (16 yrs +) |
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| Tuesdays | 7:00pm - 8:45pm | ||||||||
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| General Information | Skedsmo Ju-Jitsu Club was established February 10.1989. S.J.J.C. has a pleasant dojo with a central locality at Folkets Hus in Storgata, Central Lillestroem, just 7 minutes walking from the Lillestroem main train station, 5 minutes walking from Lillestroems biggest shopping centre, and only 3 minutes walking from nearest Best Western Hotel and short distance to several other hotels. Lillestroem is the only town and the county centre of Skedsmo County. The town has all facilities, like: the Norwegian Exhibition Centre (Norges Varemesse), all kinds of shopping, theatre, cinema, restaurants, clubs, hotels, sporting, communication etc. There are only 35.000 inhabitants in the county of Skedsmo and 15.000 in Lillestroem. Lillestroem is lying about 20 km north-east of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, and 30 km south of the International airport of Oslo, Gardermoen. By train you can reach the International airport within 15 minutes and Oslo Central station within 12 minutes. Lillestroem also has one of the best elite football team in Norway, Lillestroem Sports Club, with their home arena just 5 minutes walking from the locality of Skedsmo Ju-Jitsu Club. S.J.J.C. is a athlete club which is completely free of high macho-factor, pressure and drugs. S.J.J.C are consisting of ordinary, healthy and reasonable people. Who are finding a common pleasure and interests in what our sport can offer. | ||||||||
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In December 2001 the first Norweejin Goshin Ryu syllabus, was written by Nordli and Sannerud. It was made upon experiences we had made during the years of training ju-jitsu and martial arts. This system was based on old Ju Jitsu Norway techniques, techniques from other MA systems and "home made" techniques. The old system was built up around the idea about a technique based syllabus were you trained the different principles in fixed techniques. We had gentle, advanced and rough techniques, with one or two defences against the most regular attacks to every belt grade. The old system did also have several "traditional" techniques and techniques that was instructive and fun to train. The old syllabus consisted of about 100 techniques. After being our own masters since late 2001. We felt the time was right to see if we had come to the place where we wanted to stay, unfortunately the answer was no! We analysed the syllabus, and found that the syllabus did not match our requirements and thoughts about a purely self-defence system. We asked our selves: How do our body really react in a sharp situation, when the adrenalin has started to flow around our body and stress reaction has started to run? The answer to this important question was that our old syllabus had to many techniques, and many of them was not equal enough. The problem is that the bodies fine motor movement is going to be shut off and the most of us normal deadly would have big troubles thinking cognitive and rational thoughts, and you will also have visual and audible disturbance and denial of the situation. This is only a small part of what is happening to your body, and it is nothing to do about it, because it is, controlled by hormones. It is possible to train "stress vaccination" to avoid some of it, but the reactions may still come. There are researches, which shows that: if you had one choice (one technique), then the chances for succeeding is ca 98% (Hicks Low). If you have two choices, then the success ratio has sunk to ca 48% and so on. This shows that the syllabus was far to big, in addition to that we had not been honest to our selves. What is really happening in a sharp situation? Very often a attack comes as a "surprise" to us we said. However, this is very often not true. Probably, the body has already started to work "against" you, and you are denying the actual situation. Everything has its pre-history, and if you don't see the coming attack, then you may have "slept". We do not say that blind violence does not exist, because it does, but we think that many cases in which has been called blind-violence, could have been avoided with a more pro-active attitude. Another important point is the meaning of the attack. Why does he grab your hair? Certainly not, for just standing still and looking angry, being a "good" attacker without making up a thought about why he does what he does! Is it to pull the victim with him, may be into a waiting car? To pull the victim, down to the ground? To punch the victim before a possible rape? And so on. As a matter of fact, you don't know anything as a defender. It is not possible to read another humans thoughts! There are so many different situations, so if you should practice one special technique for each and every situation you may come into, then you may practice new techniques every day for years, without being prepared in the end, just because of the reactions inside your body in a sharp situation. What is then the meaning of practicing 5-6 different defence techniques against every imaginable attacks when you may survive by really knowing just one single technique? Fun yes, but in a self-defence perspective it is not right. This is why we found out that we are more willingly to practice self-defence in right terms, rather than having fun. Or should we say we started to have fun in a different way. The new NGR syllabus is a system based on two principles, one gentle and one rough, and where the gentle principle may be used as rough principle. These are simple principles, which definitely are working in a sharp situation. There are no IF's or eventualities. It is just working every time. The gentle principle may also be used in a control situation when it is needed, while the rough principle has only one goal -To neutralize and defeat an attacker as simple as possible. No magic or fancy stuff, just simple principles. Training the new syllabus, has also given us more time training basic techniques, which also may be used in given situations. We are thinking about throws, controls, blows, kicks and blocks. We are also training ground fight against lying or standing opponent, weapon techniques and defences against several attackers. We are training both fine and gross motor movements, but when it comes to self-defence in right terminology, then it is only gross motor movements that count. With these changes, we have made the NGR system a combative ju-jitsu system, and a real life system. We have taken a big step against the most important reason for our training. In best possible way to be able to defend our selves or those people we love, by making a pro-active attitude and by training simple effective principles, which works in a sharp situation. In addition to preserve healthy attitudes and the respect for others which Budo gives us. MAJOR INFLUENCES William Ewart "Dan" Fairbairn (1885-1960) was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire in England. In 1901 WEF was recruited by the Royal Marines and stayed there until 1907. WEF moved to Shanghai working as a police officer in the Shanghai Municipal Police (SMPD) from 1907-1940. At that time Shanghai was the most violent place on earth. In 1908 WEF started training Shinnoshindo Ryu Ju-Jitsu under Prof. Okada. Shinnoshindo Ryu derived from Yoshin Ryu in the early 17th century. Later WEF trained several other systems during his time in Shanghai like: Chinese boxing, Western boxing, Savate, Judo and other styles of Ju-Jitsu (among others Tenjin Shinyo Ryu). In the 20ties WEF made his own system in which he called "Defendu" with a lot of traces back to Shinnoshindo Ryu. Defendu became the official police system of all the British Crown Colonies in the Far East in places like Calcutta, Bombay, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai as well. WEF was graded to 1st Dan in 1926 and 2nd Dan in 1931, both times by Jigoro Kano at Kodokan in Tokyo. In 1929 big parts of WEF's Defendu was brought to Norway by the police officer Haakon Schoenning, who had been working one year in the SMPD. It then became the official system in both Oslo Police Force and the State Police School of Norway. WEF led and developed the first ever SWAT unit in the world, The Shanghai Riot Squad. In Shanghai, WEF's work spread as well to the US Marine Corp, who adopted fully his ideas. When WWII started, Fairbairn together with a close friend and partner from Shanghai Eric A. "Bill" Sykes (1883-1945) went back to England, and became head instructors of all close combat training inside the Special Operations Executive (SOE). SOE was an organisation established under Secret Intelligence Service-SIS (MI6) in 1940 to do intelligence work, irregular warfare and make resistance and guerrilla warfare within the German occupied countries. Inside SOE Fairbairn & Sykes trained Secret Agents and Special Forces, and their system or way of fighting was called "All-In Fighting" and "Gutter Fighting". Fairbairn & Sykes developed the world famed "F&S Fighting knife" in 1931, which became essential in their "Silent Killing" methods in WWII. SOE had a Norwegian Company called Norwegian Independent Company (Linge Company), which consisted of 500 men, who where highly trained in Fairbairn and Sykes Hand-2-Hand methods. In 1942, Fairbairn went to North America, first to Camp-X in Canada, and later to USA and Office Of Strategic Services (OSS) where he became head of all CQB training together with the American Rex Applegate (1914-1998) at Area B (Camp David) until the end of war in 1945. OSS was established in 1942 and was the forerunner of the CIA, which was established in 1945. Inside OSS, Fairbairn and Applegate trained Special Forces and Secret Agents. Fairbairn & Applegate developed a new fighting knife called "Applegate & Fairbairn knife". Others who where influenced by Fairbairn and who are also influencing us are: Dermot "Pat" O'Neill (1905-1985), Charles Nelson (1915-2003) and John Styers. William "Bill" Underwood (1895-1986) was born in Manchester-England. Underwood was taught some ju-jitsu in Liverpool by the British ju-jitsu pioneers Yukio Tani and Tara Maki, who had their background from Tenjin Shinyo Ryu Ju-Jitsu and Kodokan Judo. Tenjin Shinyo Ryu derived from both Yoshin Ryu and Shinnoshindo Ryu ca 1830. When Bill was young he moved to Canada with his family and Bill started developing a system he called "Combato". In 1914 when WW1 started, Underwood went to Europe with the Canadian Forces to fight the Germans. During the war Underwood did further development of his system "Combato" because of the CQB experiences he made. When WW2 started, Underwood was engaged to teach out Combato to Secret Agents and Special Forces at Camp-X 1940-1942. After the end of WW2 in 1945, Bill was asked to develop a law enforcement system for North American police. Then Underwood developed "Defendo", with a lot of traces back to Tenjin Shinyo Ryu. Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) was a Ronin, which is an unemployed Samurai. Musashi is a legend and probably the most famous of all samurais. Musashi wrote his famous book Gorin-Ni-Sho "The Book of Five Rings" in 1645. Musashi had his first life and death duel when he was just thirteen and killed his first man. Between the age of 13 and 29, he went through 60 duels, and never lost any of them. He did his last fight, a war battle when he was 55 years old. What is essential in "The Book of Five Rings" is how to understand importance of strategy before and during a fight. In the NGR system we have adopted a lot of essential points from these men, both strategy, principals, basic techniques, the way of training and the way of thinking. Fairbairn used to say: "Do whatever it takes to win the fight". This saying tells all that is important about self-defence and H2H-combat: It doesn't matter what you do as long as you are willing to give it all to win. Everything is about your mind-set. YOU WILL WIN THE FIGHT WHAT EVER IT TAKES YOU and losing is no option. To give our students the right "winning" mind-set, training with dummies is essential just as it was to the SOE during the WW2 training. And, this mind-set is a Combative mind-set, and the mind-set of Musashi as well. There is no such thing as gentleman fighting! Jo-Inge Nordli andog Ronny Sannerud, 2006 |