Takamura Shindo Yoshin-ryu
高村派新道楊心流A branch of Japanese jujutsu developed in the United States. Its founder deliberately kept it a small closed group, with no network of dojo.
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Takamura ha Shindo Yoshin-ryu is a branch of the Shindo Yoshin-ryu school of jujutsu, arranged in the twentieth century by Yukiyoshi Takamura, who lived from 1928 to 2000. The parent school arose in the nineteenth century, and Takamura''s line is therefore its more recent form, not an art of its own; the date 1968 refers to the branch, not to the school as a whole. After the Second World War Takamura moved to the United States and taught there, so the line developed outside Japan. Technically the school rests on work with bodily structure, on the breaking of balance called kuzushi, and on movement that leads force past the opponent''s axis rather than stopping it. Whoever trains begins with breakfalls and with the carriage of the body; only on that are throws and locks built. A characteristic trait is a deliberate refusal to grow. Takamura kept his line as a small closed group, founded no commercial network of dojo and did not accept everyone; that is unusual in the present martial arts world and still shapes how the school appears from outside. The number of practitioners is small and little is known of it beyond a narrow circle.
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