This method based on the long experience of Sensei Schneider out of matter as practitioner of martial arts like judo, Ju-jutsu and karate, thus as the fact that as teacher in various contexts of defense and protection for the people, it is a simple method with the range of all. The "Goshin jutsu", contrary to the other disciplines of Bu Jutsu (art of defense, of combat), is a discipline of self-defence where one cannot allow errors or prepare a setting in scene of fight. Indeed, the self-defence intervenes at the time of an aggression in real time and in this case one cannot "prepare". Defense against an aggression must be immediate and effective. At the origin Goshin was a practice gathering various techniques of Ju Jutsu or Ju Jitsu (soft art) and was creates to defend oneself. One then described it as Goshin jutsu. The Masters who developed the art of the karate, then, included in their art the concept of self-defense by calling it "Goshin karate" In self-defence, there is the word "self" which means oneself, One could think that Goshin jutsu is used only to defend oneself. However it is necessary to extend this discipline to the defense of the others when they are attacked and cannot defend themselves. This implies that we can classify Goshin jutsu in 2 groups:

 

 1) Goshin jutsu (self-defence) for oneself has the meaning, in this case, to defend oneself against an aggression carried out with bare hand or against an armed attacker, even against several attackers.

2) Goshin jutsu for the defense of third persons and, in this case, it acts to carry help to the people who are attacked. It should be noted that when one speaks about aggression it acts, within the framework of Goshin jutsu, only of physical aggression.

 

It is necessary to distinguish 2 kinds of aggressions:

 

- the spontaneous and unforeseeable aggression. It acts here of a sudden aggression which one did not expect and who can be perpetrated constantly, at any place and sometimes without reason.

 

- the foreseeable aggression, in this case the aggression is detected in advance and one can prepare physically and psychologically in order to manage it as well as possible.

 

 

Principles of Goshin jutsu

 

In the case of an aggression it is necessary to consider 2 situations:

 

1 - the phase of the remote aggression (blow of fist without seizure, attacks with a stick, a knife, kick),

2 - the phase of the aggression where the attacker carried out a seizure by front, behind, on the side (seized by arm, of the bust, the head, throttling, seizure with blow of fist etc.....)

In both cases it is necessary to try to apply the principle:

 

 "Atémi - release, control and/or immobilization - atémi (*)"

 

* (this atémi should be used only if it is necessary to put the attacker out of state to harm).

 

Important note for the self-defence

 

It should be understood that, to defend oneself or protect third persons against attackers, it implies a control of defense.

Indeed the law of the penal code specifies well that defense must be proportional to the attack. To break an arm or a leg of an aggressor who did nothing but outline one aggression or which gave you a simple slap, not either to seize its weapon to him and to make use of it against him as a counterpart.....

 

            The book “Goshin jutsu universel” written by Sensei Schneider and available through AKSER as well as its associated DVD is a reference so as a memory help very useful for the student.