The role of seifukujutsu in the role of the healing arts!

January 23, 2007

>Originally Posted by Blackcatbonz

>Ted Sumner practices and teaches seifukujutsu, this was taught to

him by >Prof Sig Kufferath, who learned it from Henry Okazaki.

Yep.

That corresponds with what I also learned when I did the Okazaki

DanZanRhu back in 1958-1971. It was part of our black belt training

that was REQUIRED before we could pass that Dan ranking test.

>It's a type of massage that can be a bit painful but does have

therapeutic >benefits.

Yes, massage and More than that. We also had to learn spinal

correction...organ resisitation, fixing broken bones, and replacing

dislocated bones into their respective sockets. In the juijitsu

school we had many different types of injuries due to the nature of

actually practicing the art on real live humans.

>Prof Kufferath had mentioned to Ted Sumner that Mitose also

practiced a >healing art, it wasn't a kenpo healing art.

>there are various resuscitation methods known as kuatsu that were

taught >to higher ranking students.

During the Shime, shinin and Oku ranks we were required to choke out

our uke's using every choke out tactics on the boards. We were also

required to know and experience the choke outs. To be choked out.

We were also required to be able to bring back the opponent after

choking him out. We were taught 6 different methods to doing that.

Most of the bring backs stimulated either the K-1, or the heart, or

the lungs. Two of the bring backs worked directly on the organs...

Others worked on meridian end points...

and two of them worked on the brain stem.

A very interesting time for training.

Cops loved that choke-out part.

It was way before choke-outs were considered excessive force.

Dr. John M. La Tourrette

57 years in the martial arts, 37 years in the Kenpo arts.

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