*Bujinkan Budô Densho Series*
Gyokko Ryû (Jeweled Tiger School )
By Carsten Kühn & Tommy James Peters
**Soke Hatsumi Masaaki saw this book in April 2010 and commended this project undertaken by the German Shinan**
This modern densho should primarily be regarded as basic manual for daily training.
The feature of this book is that the individual motion sequences are shown by means of illustrations in order to focus on the performance of the individual techniques and kata.
Concise explanations are completing this work which describes the most important unarmed forms of movements of the Gyokko Ryû.
This is the first book of the series “Bujinkan Budô Densho”.
This book covers the most important techniques of the Gyokko Ryû:
Mutô Taijutsu Shôshingsha no Kata,
Kihon Happô,
Sanshin no Kata,
Joyaku no Maki,
Churyaku no Maki,
Geryaku no Maki.
Format: 17 x 23,5 cm, 120 pages, 240 illustrations.
ISBN: 978-3-924862-17-6
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Recommendations:
“this is a great technical training manual based on a single school with practical illustrations demonstrating the techniques” Shihan Jake Sharpstone ju-ichi dan
Excellent product, hope for more titles soon
Excellent Item. Always High Quality! A+
Awsome book
Briliant reference, from 9th kyu to black belt kata (renyo, etc) RECOMMENDED BUY
Right or wrong?
Densho: Especially the original historical records of the individual ryû give leeway to each teacher to interpret the particular techniques/kata in his own way as no scroll mentions the kata in an exact way and in detail. Thus, it may occur that some Shihan occasionally interpret the current kata/techniques in a different way. Even Sôke Hatsumi Masaaki is of the opinion that there is no right or wrong.
“You can do this technique in many different ways: If you do it this way, it is Gikan Ryû. If you do it this way, it is Kumogakure Ryû. If you do it this way, it is Togakure Ryû.” [Unterstand? Good. Play!/Hatsumi 2001]
For this reason it can be that this “modern” densho sometimes show some slight “incorrectness”. But, in the main, it observes the course of movements currently taught in the Bujinkan. Those “critics” who had the chance to train in the Honbu dôjô in the eighties – and nowadays there will surely be only a few left – can witness that there have been many changes with regard to how to execute the individual techniques. This fact alone shows that the densho are subject to a (further) development. Actually these changes are the factor which fills the techniques with life not the pure form. Isn’t it right that the legendary “Sanmyaku” was also a modern densho?
(7/2010) W. Ettig (shidoshi)
Coming soon……..
Kukishinden Ryû – Taijutsu no Kata.
(Nine Demon Gods School)
This book covers the most important techniques of the
Kukishinden Ryû:
Goho no Kamae,
Shoden Gata,
Chuden Gata,
Sabaki Gata,
Okuden Gata,
Shirabe Moguri Gata.
….Kukishinden Ryû will be published in English soon!
The German Edition is available.
