Dickey's Karate & Martial Arts teaches Ryukyu Kempo, a wonderful art that encompasses striking, kicking, pinning and throwing. The art of Ryukyu Kempo is a life protection art that utilizes strikes to the body's pressure points in order to render the attacker unable to continue their attack. We teach these original techniques in their original form. Each strike is accompanied by the proper body change ensuring the effectiveness of the strike and providing total protection of the body. Proper body change allows the student to learn to have automatic explosive reaction to an attacker. As you learn and perfect the techniques, they will become as reactionary as your natural reactive systems.
Techniques:
Irimi Jitsu: The art of using body change. This technique is used to protect the body, while allowing the student to safely enter and evade the attack, striking the opponent if necessary.
Atemi Jitsu: The art of striking the limbs. The technique also sets up the opponent's body for a more severe strike if needed.
Tuite Jitsu: The art of pinning an opponent. The technique uses nerve stimulation, instead of mechanical locking, to defend against being grabbed anywhere on the body.
Kyusho Jitsu: The art of incapacitating through the body's pressure points. This technique renders the attacker unable to attack any further.
For an art to be successful for life protection it must blend all of these techniques together and be linked in a way to allow them to realized in a moment's notice. In other words the techniques must flow from one to another without the least bit of hesitation. This is facilitated by the teaching of proper body change and irimi (entering) in relation to an attack.
Ethics:
Our program adheres to the ethical tenets found in the martial arts systems of old values that are paramount in the mental health of all people: values of self-worth, honesty, integrity, self-control, an indomitable spirit, and most of all, the courage to stand for truth and justice.
Competitions:
We believe that tournaments and competition rob the martial arts student of the true benefits of the Martial Arts. The techniques you learn for competitions will not work in real self-defense. They simply give the student a false sense of security and are considered Sports Martial Arts only. True martial arts does not teach aggression but rather restraint. Techniques are only used if one self or family member are in danger.
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