The System of Sekkinsen Goshin-Jitsu formally known as Akaikai Karate, which was founded by one of my past teachers in the early 90's. I changed the name after many years of research and I have added Jujitsu and Judo to the curriculum. So as I stated above this is not a new system. In fact this system is a freestyle system of Self-defense that uses the Kata Oyo (Bunkai) from Shotokan, Karakido, and some others. What does freestyle mean? Well it simply means that anything that works will be used, we do have a set of basics that we require. We encourage our students to think about every technique. If we can teach them to think they will understand each technique better. It is not important that we know hundreds of techniques, but be able to execute the techniques that we do know with power and precision.

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Kata is a series of self-defense movements that are used to teach the students simple and complex techniques. SGJ will not use our Kata as in sport karate, but instead will break down each move and pull from those Kata the secrets moves that each Kata has. A simple Kata such as Taikyoku has many moves that would take a life time to master. Which I think is ok, Taikyoku is the usually the first Kata of any system but that is not the case with SGJ.

Our first Kata is Roku Empi (6 elbows) this simple Kata teaches our student the value of a well placed elbow strike. The elbow is not a fast strike, but it is a very powerful technique, in Roku Empi the will learn simple joint Manipulation using the elbow, they will learn how to block the opponents strikes, learn to move while striking.

Roku Empi has a couple of very common stances, Horseback riding stance (Kiba dachi), Front Stance (Zenkutsu Dachi) and Back Stance (Kokutsu dachi). So I think this Kata was a great Choice to be the first one I taught to my students.

The next Kata that SGJ Student will learn is Goshin Shodan; this Kata has a many applications at the simplest form Student will mainly be blocking a Wide Haymaker Punch, but you look a little closer you will more than just blocks, you see takedown's, joints locks, pressure points striking on a basic and semi-advance level. This Kata is the only Kata that is totally SGJ, with influence from Karate, Judo, and Jujitsu.

There is one Kata that is an American Kata, and that is Dance of the Winds, This Kata was developed by Sensei Roger Jones, and taught to me by Patrick Bohannon founder of Akaikai Karate, within this Kata is trapping, joint locking, Defecting, Grabbing, and a lot of punching and kicking. Dance of the Winds is set in an X pattern and is fairly easily learned in fact it was the first Kata I learned, and I love to run it.

The next seven Kata are from Shotokan, and Most of them run in an I pattern, these Kata are the very basics of Shotokan. With each one getting a little harder the student can see themselves growing in skill and in knowledge.

SGJ will not use these Kata as a tool to promote Sport Karate, but we will try to break each one down Technique by Technique to use as Self-Defense. So our students may or may not learn each Kata as a full kata, but they will learn the value of all the Hidden throws, Takedown's, Pressure points striking, joint locks, submission holds and more.

If our students would like to compete in Sport Karate with these Kata then we will help them to do so, I am not against Sport Karate Training I think it has many benefits for the young and the elder students. As a Teacher I want my students to know the difference between a fight in the ring and a fight for your life!

In order to comply with our system name all Kata will be modified to be used as if the student was actually fighting in a real street fight. What I mean by this is that instead of using a 15X20 foot area we will use a 6X6 foot area of space to run each Kata. This will make the techniques flow at a faster pace so the student will have a real feel of what happens in the street.