Budo February 2015

The Journey

It has been a long journey with you and Budo International in order to reveal the ancient method of Kyusho. It has not only been very rewarding, it has spread throughout the world since this release, empowering a great individuals, groups and styles.

The journey began as a very controversial subject, however in the 12 years it’s reality, it’s value and it’s ever deepening study of the human anatomy, physiology and functionality has become accepted and integrate widely.

This was achieved through more than 20 videos involving several integrated layers of instruction embedded in each. This allows the novice as as well as the more experienced, a constant source of expanding knowledge.

On the surface we can readily see an introduction to the knowledge and an unfolding physical curriculum that started with the unique ways to revive the body from these attacks. The premise being safety, but in duality a way to reverse engineer the Kyusho from a health as well as dysfunctional skill… which was later defined in a higher degree with the First Aid video.

In the beginning we utilized the most accepted terminology of the day (acupuncture point designations), but steadily progressed into the names of the nerves and other anatomical structures we were employing. So for all those already involved with Kyusho it would not shock or alienate them, but rather slowly educate all to the real underlying structures and cause of dysfunction. All we have done has been exhaustingly researched and verified by medical and scientific specialists of many fields of study… field tested hundreds of times on thousands of practitioners around the world. The more we produced the more we were able to escalate that research and inform many more participants what worked, what did not and why.

Each video has a technical application on the basic level with the first 5 DVDS illustrating most of the targets that are practical for combative use. We demonstrated drills and ways to improve targeting in live motion… a breakthrough for Kyusho instructors that typically employed static application. The next series were situational application using the same targets with specialized results from takedowns to grappling, joint manipulations and weapon attacks. These were kept open with targeting as the goal instead of specific technique that are prone to failure in high stress and adrenalized restrictions under real attack. And in the process helped multiple thousands of Martial Artists from all styles to enhance their methods and increase the efficiency… even answer the questions they had about the very strangest of postures or actions in their style.

After this basic understanding was accomplished the second series dug deeper into the Martial Arts encompassing skills such as Iron Shirt, How to break down the hidden meanings in Martial Arts forms, body compression, the significance in the tools or weapons you choose and much needed reverse engineering of Kyusho First Aid. Within this second phase of Kyusho education we concentrated more on the physiological and functional aspects of the human body and how to disrupt or restore them more profoundly than in the first phase.

Each of these DVDS had a technical level that was readily understandable, but each also had deeper information in them as well. As one example the Iron Shirt DVD at the surface level instructed on how to protect the body from deeper penetration and affect from Kyusho attacks. A secondary layer of information inherent in this production exposed hidden purpose for many moves within Martial Arts Forms. But it goes deeper still.

A third layer was how to get past these protections. Now I know this was obvious to all just by the first layer presentation, but it also demonstrated how to deal with the phenomenon of the "Non Responder". This is the rare 5% individual that typical Kyusho methods do not work on due to variation in physiological structure (ie deeper set nerve or higher sensory thresholds as example). The processes explained and demonstrated how to use this on non-responder types, but more important on adrenalized attackers. Yet another level in this understanding can aid those who use the health methods to help people in a more profound way getting past resistive issues.

All of the DVDS have these layers that emerge to the viewer after much physical hands on experience is attained. As you use the surface layer information and assimilate the skills, more and more of these unfolding levels are revealed.