Sakura Ryu Jujitsu - Martial Arts Brisbane - The Best in Self Defense

Sakura Ryu JuJitsu – Our Extended Family

Sensei — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 03:56:10 +0000

Family values are instilled in all Sakura Ryu students. Involvement with peers through support and mentoring is also highly encouraged.

Sakura Ryu caters for members of all ages and levels of experience:

Juniors: 7-14 years old
Intermediates: 12-16 years old
Seniors: 16 years and over

The Sakura Ryu club provides a fun and social sporting environment. JuJitsu is a healthy activity for the whole family, with a number of associated benifits: • Improves general fitness and stamina • Increases physical flexibility • Builds strength and physical endurance • Increases energy levels • Builds bone density

Sakura Ryu takes a holistic approach to self defense including:

How to control conflict situations
How to defend from any type of attack
How to effectively kick and punch
How to perform a variety of throws How to utilise immobilizations, arm locks and leg locks

About the Chief Instructor Hanshi Ellis (8th Dan black belt) is an experienced teacher and coach. He has over 33.5 years experience as a TAFE teacher and has coached in the martial arts for over 40 years. He is widely respected for his achievements and is amongst the highest ranking JuJitsu martial artists in Australia. He has also been inducted into the black belt hall of fame. Hanshi Ellis’ level of experience is a testament to his dedication to the art and is an asset to his students.

Come along and be welcomed by our Instructor and his students.

Happy Breakfalls Everyone!!

Where did it all begin?

Sensei — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:30:48 +0000

Every culture has some form of hand to hand combat in its history. Combat without weapons usually appears in the form of wrestling and sometimes boxing. Looking at the history timeline, one good hypothesis is that the wrestling techniques of Jiu-Jitsu could very well have come from Ancient Greece. Olympic games were one of the Greek’s strongest traditions. It is most likely that along with Greek ideas, came one of its most popular sports, Pankration. Pankration was a sport that involved both boxing and wrestling techniques and became more popular to the Greeks than either of those sports individually. Pankration would later be overshadowed by the Roman Gladiators, and then banned from the Olympics by Christian leaders of the Roman Empire. Even though new rulers would come and go, Greek customs and ideas still reached India, where Jiu-Jitsu’s foundation was likely to have been born. During Alexander the Great’s conquests (356 – 323 B.C.), he brought the Greek culture to the areas he conquered. His conquests stretched all the way to India, where he introduced the customs and ideals of Greek culture to the people of that area. Jiu-Jitsu wasn’t being formally taught in Japan for over one thousand years after this. Many say that the Greek influence in India led to the development of Kung Fu or more appropriately, Wu Shu (martial arts) in China.

The Chinese have a great deal of stories to support the history of their martial arts. The general idea embraced by most historians is that systemized martial arts techniques came from India along with Buddhism (Bodhi Dharma). The concept here is that the Shaolin temple was built in the center of China and this is where Bodhi Dharma introduced Buddhism and Boxing (senzuikyo). (ref. Aikido and Chinese Martial Arts, Sugawara and Xing) The story that supports the idea of Jiu-Jitsu coming from China takes place around the time of the fall of the Ming Dynasty. It states that a man named Chingempin came from Japan to live in Tokyo at a Buddhist temple where he met three Ronin (masterless Samurai) named Fukuno, Isogai, and Miura. Chingempin told the Ronin of a grappling art he had seen in China. The Ronin became particularly interested in pursuing the study of this art, so he then began teaching in Japan, and this art became Jiu-Jitsu.

Excerpted from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, The Master Text by Gene Simco. For the complete history, buy the book!
The next theory is that there was many forms of wrestling that had developed in China. One of the most notable is Horn Wrestling, called Jiaodixi. This form of wrestling was practiced by the Mongolians and later evolved into Jiaoli, which was wrestling without the horns. This form of wrestling can be seen in Native American cultures (evident in the typical Native American Buffalo head wear) and most likely arrived there by way of Mongolians migrating through now modern Alaska. Jiaoli evolved and became Xiangpu and it is said that this form of wrestling became Sumo in Japan. Another theory says that there were practitioners of Chikura Karube, a wrestling sport developed around 200 B.C. It is said that Chikura Karube later became Jiu-Jitsu in Japan.

The last story mentioned here is that Jiu-Jitsu is Japanese and from Japan. This story follows the same basic idea but differs in that Chingempin introduced an early form of Jiu-Jitsu (not yet called Jiu-Jitsu) called Kempo in Japan, which consisted mostly of strikes and very little grappling. From there, the Japanese developed it into a more effective grappling art. One thing is certain about these stories, and that is that the Japanese were responsible for refining a grappling art into a very sophisticated grappling system called Jiu-Jitsu.

Tracing the history of grappling techniques for this book was quite interesting. In doing so, I decided to look for some common threads between the stories, which are:

All ancient cultures had some form of grappling and unarmed fighting techniques.
The Greek culture gave its fighters the greatest financial and social rewards. The ancient Greeks conquered quite a bit of territory during the time of Alexander the Great, including the area that Jiu-Jitsu’s techniques were said to have come from.
Wrestling did exist in China and Mongolia before Jiu-Jitsu did in Japan, and it is interesting to note that this is where Native American wrestling most likely came from by way of migration over the Alaskan Ice Bridge.
The pinning and throwing techniques of Jiu-Jitsu are very similar to, and in some cases, the same as those of Greco Roman Wrestling.

Classes Offered

Sensei — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:10:21 +0000

Classes are scheduled three nights per week; Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Sakura Ryu JuJitsu Class

Adult Self Defence

Monday:
Juniors: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Seniors: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Wednesday:
Juniors: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Seniors: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Friday:
Juniors: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Seniors: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Location:
490 London Road, Gumdale
Queensland

General Self Defence for the public.
Ladies Self Defence.
Specialist Training.
Teenage Self Defence.
Structured Self Defence Training for Grading from beginner to 7th Dan (Nanadan)

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American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Learning Sakura Ryu JuJitsu

Sensei — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:06:32 +0000

JuJitsu is a healthy activity for the whole family. Benefits include such things as increased self-esteem, and self-confidence. We run separate classes for junior and senior students to enable suitable lessons and techniques for different ages and development of our students. Assistants by way of high Kyu Grades aid the teachers and students to accelerate your learning. On your first class one of these high rank students will help to settle you in and get you started early. You will notice the friendly atmosphere and camaraderie throughout our club branches. Added benefits of training with us is your fitness and energy levels will increase. You will maintain your flexibility and slow the effects of ageing by way of continued exercise.

“Exercise provides an additional method for preventing and treating osteoporosis. Athletes tend to have higher bone densities than the general population and can provide a model for assessing the effects of different exercise regimens on bone mineral density.” ABC of sports Medicine: Osteoporosis and Exercise R L Wolman

Learning JuJitsu is learning how to control conflict situations by defending yourself from any type of attack. It can help you learn the skills needed to defend from common weapons, such as knife, club and gun. You will learn how to effectively kick and punch. How to immobilise an attacker, apply strangulations, armlocks, leglocks, necklocks and holding techniques. You will also learn how to use leg, hand, hip, shoulder and sacrifice throwing.

Welcome to Sakura Ryu JuJitsu®

Sensei — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:17:27 +0000

Sakura Ryu JuJitsu teaching traditional Martial Arts in Brisbane Australia. The traditional JuJitsu of ancient Japan, once practiced by the Samurai. Now in these peaceful times, being learned by adults, teenagers and younger children. Developing discipline, self confidence, social skills, as well as the strongest self defence principles.
We are a not for profit organisation dedicated to training students in the Martial Art of JuJitsu which is a very credible and complete self defence, used by the Ancient Samurai. Our teachings are traditional, having been passed down by way of master to teacher to student for many generations.

From Japan to Australia

JuJitsu has a very colourful history involving many twists and turns throughout many centuries, cultures and countries. Those who expanded the Martial Art by spreading JuJitsu throughout the world, found that it was difficult to teach to those who couldn’t speak Japanese. They either had to teach them Japanese or change their teaching methods.

This footage captured during Sakura Ryu’s own Chief Instructor, Hanshi Reg Ellis performing an ancient kata during his 7th Dan Grading back in 2008.

This footage below captured during Sakura Ryu’s own Chief Instructor, Hanshi Reg Ellis completing his 8th Degree Black Cherry Blossom in which he received dual Diplomas from Queensland United Black Belt Association and World Budo Martial Art at this Grading performed back in 1989.