New at Ichinen Bridport

As from the 6th of June the Jiu-Jitsu training at Ichinen Bridport now is extended for half an hour. The regular class still is from 7-8.30pm followed by half an hour training for those they like to stay on. We will use these 30 minutes extra time to do things, they usually come short in the regular session like preparing intensiv for a grading, study katas or randori.

Stone of recognition

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Dress code at Ichinen Bridport

As we train the traditional Art of Jiu-Jitsu, we wear generally a Jiu-Jitsu Gi, which is much the same than a Judogi. Usually a white one, but as from blue belt level upwards it is fine to wear the black one too. Black is more suitable for the outdoor sessions, a blue belt student and higher has to perform.
The Gi is held together by a belt. The student colours are:
white, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown. The Master shows a black belt.
Additional we use light boots to protect the feet and too for hygiene reasons. Those they haven't the boots yet, should wear black socks or train bare feet.
For the warming up we use a black T-shirt. Any decoration, like finger rings, ear rings etc. need to be removed before the class or covered with a plaster (ear rings) if not removable.

There is no need to mention, that the uniform has to be kept clean and in good order at all times. It's fair towards your friends on the mat and a good sign of discipline.

On the left side of the jacket we show the AMA badge.

Of cause any beginners may train in any suitable sports wear. You only need the Gi when you start for your first grading.

New location for our training in Bridport

We are lucky and can move our Jiu-Jitsu training now "downtown". Although Loders isn't this far away from Bridport, it seems a location closer to town or in this case in the town center of Bridport is more suitable for many people.

So, from now on we are in the British Legion Hall, Victoria Grove, Bridport.

Training starts at 7.00pm and finishes at 8.30pm every Thursday.

And I like to say, we have been before that at Loders in the Loders Village Hall. And we had a great time there. The hall is very much suitable for all sorts of events and of cause Martial Arts. And I like to give a special thanks to Pam, who always locked after us in a professional and friendly way. Thank you Pam from the whole Jiu-Jitsu group.

See you in the British Legion Hall next Thursday!

We need you!

Get fit for the   Summer*

* With the Martial Art of Jiu-Jitsu

* Self Defense education at its best!

* For all man and women over 16 years

* Only 3.99 an hour

                  * New course starts 2^ndof May

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* Training given by a professional sports teacher (BAE)

   and Black Belt with 24 years teaching experience

          * Thursday 7–8.30pm British Legion Hall

                                        Bridport

*Beginners very welcome!

"The philosophy of our Jiu-Jitsu is to keep the mind always open and to practice all sorts of systems in order to get the essence of it. Anyone who focuses only on one star is in danger of missing the entire universe."
Master Horst Lindenau 2013

This picture shows two fighter demonstrating the system "Atemi Combat". A radical and direct self defense technique. Atemi was taught in the  WCA (world Combat Association), where Master Horst Lindenau used to be a member for two years and was graduated as a second Dan in Atemi Combat.

It's for sure useful and good to become a 1. Dan in a specific system first, to have a solid base for further studies. But after that do not hesitate to learn as much as you can from other systems too.

Photo: Atemi Combat Master Enno Voigt and Frank Burdorf (Germany) show an arm lock. Both Masters have started their Martial Arts career with Master Horst. Frank was the very first student trained to Master degree by Master Horst.

How do you manage fear in a self defense situation?

What is fear is. “Fear is an emotional response to stimuli either external or internal. Fear has certain physiological responses such like increased heart rate and/or increased respiration.”
There are various mental responses to fear as freezing up. Not being able to move at all, though your mind may be telling to run, block or fight!

Anger and fear are very closely related. A reaction to fear of anger will at the very least help you to survive better than freezing up, but it could also inhibit your thought processes and get you even more in trouble.
If you trained to react on fear, your body relaxes, your mind focuses. Adrenaline increases your strength and speed making you a capable individual.

There are two ways of training to use fear. Place yourself in life threatening situations on a regular basis. I don’t really mean it. Or place yourself in life threatening situations on a regular basis mentally. This method has the advantage of extending your training career while at the same time possibly saving your life.
Many martial artists spend their lives learning to block and strike. Going through situation after situation. Attacks from the front attacks from behind, from the side, multiple attackers.

Some martial artists don't even practice these scenarios. Assuming the same defensive reaction from the front will work from the side and from attacks from behind. Some martial arts instructors when asked "what if" by their students will simply say, "just don't put yourself in that position". If that were the answer there would be no need to take self-defense at all.

For those martial artists who do practice situational self-defense training, many of you are not allowing for the mental aspect of a physical attack.
Mental preparedness for a physical attack, I believe, is very much the same important than the physical side of preparing for an attack. Why do you think it is that a trained martial artist would fear a seasoned street fighter. Because the street fighter has been in REAL fights. The few tricks he has picked up to win a street brawl have actually been executed by him under the mental stress of a life and death situation Most martial artists, fortunately, have not had this misfortune.

But let us look back at the physiological effects of fear again. Increased heart rate and respiration were two major physiological responses to fear. A tensing of voluntary muscle groups is another, more so in the untrained individual.

So first a slight tension of voluntary muscle groups. Now increase your breathing. Short shallow breaths are best to emulate this physiological response.

Now to the Mental Aspect

You need a padded up live partner. For this drill I would often take an air shield and tie it to the front on an advanced student. Than your partner must do some acting as well. He must look both in the face and body language as though they intend to hit you and hurt you. Even emulating the foul language you might hear from an attacker in an attempt to intimidate you would help.

Now you put it in your mind that your partner is not your partner. He's a stranger that intends on doing you harm, mugging you, raping, beating you senseless and unless you defend yourself and hit just as hard as you can and don't get hit yourself that's just what's going to happen.

Start with a prearranged attack and counter-attack, but, put it out of your mind that you actually know what's going to happen. Feel the fear and tension before the attack, then block or evade like you mean it, like your life depends on it and counter attack.

Now put some pads on and remove the air shield. Do one step variations again. Same mental stress of a real situation, but strike anywhere and pull the technique so you don't hurt your partner.

Ready to Become More Dangerous?

Start again with all of your self-defense drills. Emulate your fear for at least 10 seconds to put yourself in a life threatening mental attitude. Than relax your muscles and breathing. Now start again and add a mental aspect to begin working with your fear and stress. Begin again with your drills and this time take your fear and turn it into anger. It's not the final solution yet, but it will give you a better chance of survival than being frozen in place solid.

Turning fear into anger takes practice, but is actually not that hard to accomplish. As I said earlier the two emotions are very similar. Basically this can be accomplished with an example such as this:
Instead of, "Oh my gosh, this guy wants to hurt me!" Your better response to this would be: What? This nut lowlife scum wants to hurt me???

Now add your rapid breathing to this and slight muscular tension and remember: YOU'RE ANGRY!
Now do your steps to relax and attempt to control your breathing while remaining angry. This training method, when done properly, will take a lot out of you. I do not recommend using this method all of the time, but definitely put it in your training schedule and practice the method on a regular basis.



Photo: Stone of courage, former Symondsbury Zen Garden

Pussy Galore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Galore
That's for those they want to find out more.
Honor Blackman's book of self defense, mind you, it's from 1965! By that time I could not proceed with my Judo lessons, as my father wouldn't buy me a Gi and pay the fee. So I was left in the street instead.

But that was good. Could I find out that way, what the real thing was. Not just sport and fairness. But if I compare the style from those days with modern time violence and fighting techniques, there is hardly any compare. In Honor Blackman's book of self defense you can find the odd moves, sure they work(ed), but today it is a different cup of tea. Streetfighting and the ugly nasty appoach with it has changed. And so have our ideas about self defense at Ichinen Bridport. But if you like, have a little stroll in the past direct to Pussy Galore.

Double knock out in this MMA fight

Always expect the unexpected!

What's the answer to the outbreak of violence?

After the latest school massacre in the USA in December 2012 American teachers are booking courses how to use firearms. Since this last deadly shooting at a US school there is a very controversy discussion about what to do to avoid similar shootings and killings in the future.

While the American president wants to introduce tougher rules to possess a gun, the weapon lobby arguments with some teachers, those they rather book a course, learn to use a firearm in the hope they can save children’s and their own life in an event like the Newtown massacre.

Some teacher in the US even say, they will wear a gun in the future, although illegal and risking the job, but to protect themselves and the children. Courses to learn the gun handling were fully booked after the shooting and it seems people only can see one solution to this problem.

But how wrong they all are!

According to the FBI annual crime statistics, the number of murders committed annually with hammers and clubs far outnumbers the number of murders committed with a rifle. Read the full story on FOX NATION.

But what does it mean for us here in the UK where guns are not around everywhere as in the USA?

According to an article from the 25th of January in the MAIL ONLINE, 40 primary school pupils are expelled every day for attacks on staff, shocking  figures revealed yesterday. The violence is so endemic that exclusions for assaulting teachers are now more common in primaries than in  secondary schools.

If you worried as a teacher, come and join a Jiu-Jitsu club and learn the art of self defense. This could be one answer.

Picture above: Master Horst Lindenau teaches children the art of Jiu-Jitsu at the BAE headquarters in the studio of self defense (SDS Wilhelmshaven) in Germany 1989.

Master Horst: "Those children, they have been in contact with the martial arts and especially Jiu-Jitsu are much less likely involved in any aggressive or violent behaviour." This could be answer two.

Another year of good training

Hi folks, another year of good training with Master Horst comes to an end. Last session on Tuesday at Loders Village Hall will be the 18th of December, as the following Tuesdays are Christmas day and New Years day. Remember, there wasn't so far any break in the sessions on Tuesdays. So use the free time and maybe study some in theory. There are a lot of books available and too lots of U-tube clips on the Internet. Never stop for real!

Bring a friend and safe money

Sign up a friend and get three months of superb Jiu-Jitsu education for free. Self defense becomes more and more important. Don't waste any time. Join today! there are lots of free vouchers available now in and around Bridport. See the Sport Shop @ East Street, the Trading Post @ South Street, No.10 Cafe Bar and many more places. Or ring 01308-459781.

If you go on Bridport Radio website, find the vouchers, print one out which suits you and ring 01308-459781 to get a serial number registered.

A side kick is a side kick is a side kick...

Those who know me better, might think now he favours football. But in this case, when an Argentine footballer used a side kick to his fellow playmates, I must admit, football sometimes produces incredible martial art techniques. Just remember Eric Cantona.

And this is the pure kick in a dojo. The footballer used a version with a little jump.

They used pick-axe handles, baseball bats, hammers and knives

The Guardian online reported about the killing of two students in southern France, which took only two minutes.

…Kevin N. and Sofiane T., both 21, were attacked in a park on Friday night for reasons that are still unclear, but local accounts suggested it was because one of their younger brothers had looked at someone "the wrong way" outside school. A crowd of around 12 young men, believed to include teenagers, hit the men with pick-axe handles, baseball bats, hammers and knives, taking two minutes to kill one, while the other died shortly after in hospital…

The full story you can read here http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/02/france-killings-two-students-hollande

And don't think, oh well, that's France. Unfortunately it can happen anywhere. And unfortunately it happens.


Here at Ichinen Bridport we learn to fight attackers they are armed too.

Photo: "Weapons of death", to perform a Jiu-Jitsu Kata.

Uk Martial Arts Register

Our school too is registered with the largest UK register of Martial Art clubs http://www.martialartsregister.co.uk/clubdetail.asp?id=1268 . Have a look.

Want a fight??

As a Martial Artist you can be challenged sometimes to use the arts or your strength. I been in a local pub and somebody asked, if I would take up with him to do arm wrestling, as people say how good I was in sports. He was about 2 stone bigger than me and of cause I turned him down. (even if he would have been a light weight).

This kind of competition is not only useless, it doesn't say anything at all about the winner or looser. Martial Arts is not about competing with an opponent in pubs or elsewhere. It is about yourself and when it comes to the real world, maybe for good self defense reasons.

Similar situation happened last night. A guy bumped into me on the street and tried to bully me. "Don't you know who I am?" he asked me. I just questioned him if he would know who I am. And this reaction took him by surprise.Finally he calmed down and went off. Later I learned he was a local gangster. Ok.

But read this:

King Hsuan of Chou heard of Po-Kung-I, who was reputed to be the strongest man in his kingdom. The King was dismayed when they met, since Po looked so weak. When the King asked Po how strong he was, Po said mildly, " I can break the leg of a spring grasshopper and withstand the winds of an autumn cicada."

Aghast, the King thundered, " I can tear rhinoceros leather and drag nine buffaloes by the tail, yet I am shamed by my weakness. How can you be famous?"

Po smiled and answered quietly, " My teacher was Tzu shang-chi'ui, whose strength was without peer in the world, but even his relatives never knew it because he never used it."

Photo: Don Wilson seminar May 2009, Germany

Text read this: From the book "Zen in the Martial Arts", by  Joe Hyams

Ichinen Bridport in "View of Bridport"

Ichinen Bridport 4th Kyu / Orange belt

The aim of our training at Ichinen Bridport is 98 % self defense orientated. 2% you can count on fun and fitness ;-)

4th Kyu / Orange belt                                                                                 2012/2013
Break falls
Roll forward, backward roll, roll sideways,
fall forward, -back and sideways and 2 rolls over an obstacle

1 foot throw + hold on the ground
1 hip throw + follow up technique
1 shoulder throw + follow up technique
3 defenses against strangle hold
3 strangling holds
2 hold down + 1 liberation
2 transport grips
2 wrist locks
2 knife defenses
Throat nerve press, control attacker
2 arm locks
5 self defenses in emergency situation
3 Karate techniques
3 Boxing techniques
3 defenses against various weapons/objects

Theory:
Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Anti-Terrorkampf, Karate, Grading system, natural + unnatural weapons, self defense and the law, Japanese terms, Dojo etiquette, 1.aid.
Minimum training required is 3 months.

Congratulation Chinnor!

Master Horst Lindenau and Colin Poole - AMA certificate

On Tuesday, 2nd October Colin Poole (known as Chinnor) past his grading for the yellow belt in Jiu-Jitsu. His training partner had to take on with Chinnor's new knowledge. Master Horst Lindenau overlooked the grading and Chinnor passed with note 2 (1-6).
Congratulations and keep it going. Well done!

Jiu-Jitsu is the mother of Judo too

As Steve Reynolds moved with his students of Spirit Combat to Bridport, we now can have an earlier start at the Loders Village Hall. Jiu-Jitsu training will start now at 7 o'clock, Tuesdays.

Photo: Master Horst Lindenau 1995 in Poole for the green belt grading in Judo with the British Judo Association.