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Julio Toribio

by Stefan Vercouteren

First of all, Julio introduced the basic philosophy of Seibukan jujutsu. He described his style as bringing traditional jujutsu into modern times. What most people know as jujutsu is merely a combination of judo and karate mixed with some jujutsu, spiced up with some rules to make competition possible so that people can train for cups and medals. That's no jujutsu, that's sports!!! In Seibukan jujutsu there are no rules, there's no cup to win : Seibukan jujutsu is budo!!! The system's based on 3 A's : Awareness (observe, look around, notice) - Assessment (work out a solution) - Action (do something or don't). The system uses the movement of the opponent and uses the weak spot in his balance to bring him down. For striking and grappling, weak points of the body are being used. Destraction is the first action of the defender ; angling is another basic point used in each technique. 

After this introduction, we started with some basic strikes and kicks. Julio introduced us 2 strikes that are not specifically included in ninjutsu : a vertical shuto towards the top of the head (which can be used both offensive and defensive) and a strike I believe he called metsubushi (a relaxed strike basically executed to the eyes with the intention to destract the opponent).

As for kaiten, the backward rolling had a slightly different execution which needed some attention : the stretched leg is thrown over the same shoulder, not over the opposite. Julio also showed us some ukemi of Seibukan jujutsu.

The next part consisted of the 19 basic techniques one needs to master in order to become Shodan. The first part were all techniques in Sei Za, the other half were mainly the same techniques executed from a normal standing position. Then he went on showing some applications of the basic principals, allowing us to finish in our own style/manner. This part of the session was ended with some counter-techniques using the principals of the Seibukan jujutsu system. The final part contained some knife defence techniques. 

Each technique, each application, each escape … They all had one thing in common : making use of the so-called 3rd spot. By taking the right angle, one comes into a position that he can easily break the opponents balance using his own strength, his own power, his own motion. Although not being his personal variation of ninjutsu, Julio's Seibukan jujutsu has a lot in common with our martial art. Why ? Because it's budo!!! For those who don't know anything about budo, Seibukan jujutsu is a good way to learn self-defence ; for those already introduced to budo, Seibukan jujutsu is an enrichment to their knowledge.