Not a traditional one....
Yes Kyusho is a style, but a style of individuality.
Style is a manner of focus, be it striking, grappling, locking, throwing, evasion, etc..
However most traditional styles all focus on the exterior of the body, appendages, head and trunk.
Kyusho's style is in attacking the interior of the body, in all of these traditional actions (striking, grappling, locking, throwing, evasion, etc.).
Here is a typical letter from a newer Kyusho Enthusiast:
I really need your help and understand how I can make progress this year.
The below are the concerns I have and I need your help.
1. I have to understand all the concepts like nerve points, pressure points and meridian points in the body?
Please provide me what topics I need to cover in the portal.
2. How to apply and the combinations of Points.
suggest me where I can get this information.
3. I still didn't get the Technic even I am attending the Kyusho sessions. may be I am not doing much work in this area.
Please help me in this regard.And finally Thanks for your mail.
In answering your concerns:
1. You are trying to think more than do... you need to train with and on people to get better skill in Kyusho. Just put together a group of people that meet once a month (and EVERY month – consistency is the key), take one target...don’t worry about what it is called or is. Have everyone work it and then come up with different uses for all to PRACTICE.
2. In the beginning it is far more important to learn how to apply one target in many scenarios so you become subconsciously able to make it work spontaneously and well. Follow the procedure in step one above.... then the multiples will begin to emerge automatically. Although if you can get one target well, you will not need multiple points... needing multiple points means you are not good enough with the single targets yet... PRACTICE.
3. As in anything, a quick one day course only opens your eyes and mind... hands on PRACTICE makes it possible and real. So set the monthly training, build a large group to work on many people and even develop extra income so you may purchase more educational tools or courses... that is our Kyusho system. When people follow it exactly they become highly skilled, if any step is not used, they struggle.
So Kyusho is a Style of 100% individuality and adaptability to any other system or "Style" the main thing is focused, focus.
That said... what if there was a Style, that naturally trained and incorporated all martial concepts from striking, kicking, grappling, throwing, entering, chi gung, iron shirt, seizing, trapping, internal and external body change, promotion of health, strength, speed, longevity and the list goes on.... a personal style of YOU.
“There is no place in contemporary Karate for different styles. I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the “Shotokan style”, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all “styles” should be amalgamated into one, so that Karate may orderly progress into man’s future.”
– Gichin Funakoshi (1868-1957)
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