Tetsudo
British system that emerged in the nineteen-fifties. It has carried the name Tetsudo since 1994, and sources know its founder only by title.
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About Tetsudo
Tetsudo is a British combat system that has been taught in its current form since the mid-nineteen-nineties. Its history is unusually uncertain: sources even disagree on what its founder was called. Sources know the founder's name only in its title form, and even that is not consistent — both Maha Ustad Tambo Tetsura and Maha Ustad Masu Tetsura appear. They agree that he died in 1966 and that the system took shape in the mid-nineteen-fifties. The year 1968 belongs to the system's older name: according to the history kept by the association itself, the seventeen-year-old B. S. Dhaliwal named the system goyararu at that time — goya meaning body, ra path and ru mind. The name Tetsudo was only adopted in 1994. The philosophy rests on an equilateral triangle of three planes: physical, emotional, and mental. None is meant to take precedence, and that shapes the approach to teaching — the system adapts to the individual instead of shaping everyone into one form. That is less common among combat systems than the opposite. Tetsudo today is overseen by its own association and is practiced in British clubs, including in Sheffield and West Bridgford.
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