Wes Tasker, Sensei, throws Alex
F. in Tai Otoshi
(body drop)
About the Art We Practice
Tenshin Shintai Ryu Heiho (literally- heaven-inspired divine-body flow/school [of] strategy) or Shintai, for short, is a comprehensive martial art system practiced by the Koyama/Yonezawa/Nakayama family of police in Hiroshima, Japan in the 1800 and early 1900's and brought to the US in 1980.
Students of Shintai are exposed to taijutsu (body ['unarmed'] skills), buki (weapons) and kenkojutsu (health restoration) all based on a very small number of 'Kihon' (literally, tree roots; basics or fundamentals) that pervade the entire art. Both ranking and transmission of material centers on the three densho (scrolls): Shoden (new/first), Chuden (middle), and Okuden (esoteric/secret). At each stage, the kihon provide a critical means of evaluating progress and of improving connection and timing. Rather than a random collection of techniques, each densho is designed to impart both physical skills and an underlying Heiho (strategy).
The Shoden Mokuroku (catalogue of techniques) of Shintai comprises:
- Taijutsu- taiso [no] undo/tandoku renshu (body conditioning), power generation, atemi (striking), ukemi (receiving body, rolling/falling/etc.), tori waza (taking techniques), kihon and (36 core, two-person) kata, with henka (variations)
- Buki-ho- tandoku renshu, sotai renshu (two-person conditioning drills), kumikata (forms) and oyo (applications) for a number of tools (yari, naginata, [rokushaku]bo, nodachi, jo,ken/batto, ryoto, hanbo, kodachi, tanjo, yubibo, tanto, and bo-shuriken) usually, in sets of 5
- Kenkojutsu- a range of theory and manual therapeutics (hijoji tetsuda, honesei, amma and kampo).
Though very much its own art, Shintai does preserve a limited number of basic kata from the three Ryu (schools/styles) that influenced the system most heavily.
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