Calgary JuJitsu Lie!

There are currently only three Goshinkan-Ryu JuJitsu Dojo's in Alberta. It has come to my intention that there has been fraudulent miss use of the GMA copy written and trade marked syllabus and system.

If your Sensei is having you grade every three months there is no way this is pure JuJitsu. If your classes seem more like fitness than JuJitsu that's because they are. Fitness plays a roll, however get fit on your own time, you don't need to pay your Sensei to show you how to kick 100 times in a row.

It takes around 4 years to earn your Black Belt in Goshinkan JuJitsu but can take upwards of 7 years. If you are a Blue or Purple belt and you have put in only one year of JuJitsu training, some Sensei is simply trying to sell you a Belt.

Did you join JuJitsu to earn belts? There are many simpler styles of martial arts if you just want to get belts. I have Blue belts that have been doing GMA for two years and are two belts below some others but have 10 times the skills.

If you want to learn the pure Goshinkan JuJitsu don't take a substitute program claiming to be Goshinkan-Ryu JuJitsu. Just because they stole the book does not make them a certified recognized instructor in the style.

Send Sensei Lintott and email and find out the truth! No one likes to be made a fool of or lied too! We don't post a bunch of poorly done videos of low level techniques being done incorrectly on the web, because anyone who walks onto out mats knows in about 5 minutes what JuJitsu is.

Provincial Jiu-Jitsu Awards

Goshinkan-Ryu JuJitsu won several awards this year! Cristian Simescu voted Southern Alberta Male Student of the Year; George Maxwell voted the Provincial Male Student of the Year; April Lintott voted Provincial female student of the year.

Sensei Mark Tallack voted Southern Alberta JuJitsu Instructor of the Year! Sensei K.D. Lintott voted Provincial Instructor of the Year!

New Manuals

The 7 new manuals are about almost completed three are being released next week. The Adults; Juniors and Little Samurai versions of the Goshinkan-Ryu JuJitsu curriculum and guide are vastly improved; all three of these editions have been professionally edited and professionally published for the first time. They have all new images solely designed for Goshinkan JuJitsu by professionals. Look for them on sale soon. Four more editions to be released shortly as well are: Junior's Black belt manual; Adults variations manual; Master's Manual and in the new year all the instructors manuals for all of the Goshinkan JuJitsu programs will be available with images for every single technique along with DVD's for all the programs. Keep looking on the GMA web site for more information.

Authentic Goshinkan-Ryu JUJITSU

If there is any doubt about your certification in Goshinkan-Ryu JuJitsu for your Certificate to be Authentic in the Style of Goshinkan-Ryu JuJitsu it should have a red ink stamp over the Chief instructor's signature. If the Chief Instructor was not at your grading ask your instructor if a video of your grading was sent to him and why you were graded without him present. For more info go to the new GMA web site at www.goshinma.com .

Turn Around and Look

I have been doing and teaching JuJitsu for the better part of half my life and plan to have a few more years learning more about this fascinating art. Many students I have watched training at all of my clubs often make what could be a fatal mistake. They fail to recognize that after a confrontation they need to keep on high alert and to and turn around! Life is a gift, it is generally what is behind us is that is most dangerous.
We keep on students about keeping their hands up in their fence during a teachnique, and throughout the technique, but what about after the technique. Generally when people are ambushed or assault in an un-provoked physical assault it is when they fail to recognize their threat or they have their hands down.
Some of the best martial arts kickers I have ever seen, often drop or open thier fence (hands) while excuting their highly accurate kicks. It does not matter how fast your kick or punch is, or how accurate, if you drop your fence or open it up someone may be able to unleash a pyhsical assault on you and your self defense tools will be in the wrong place.
Please don't be one of these people who fail to recognize the threat or drop the fence. Maybe it's time you tried one of the oldest and most complete Martial Arts self-defense systems in Alberta, Goshinkan-Ryu JuJitsu with several locations to serve you in your defense.

Camp Of Combat Arts 2009

The plans for this years Camp are in full swing. The dates of the Camp of Combat Arts this year are going to be July 4 & 5th (Saturday and Sunday).

The camp will start on Saturday at 10 a.m. and we be held in the Southland Leisure Centre Main Gym.

The cost of the camp is $75 for both days. $55 for adult members; this year we planing on a kids camp as well held at our Queensland Dojo for juniors age 7 - 11. Date and time forth coming, cost for the kids $20.

A seminar like this for the adults is generally over $200 AJJA is a non-profit group out ot make a change is the Martial Arts Community.

Instructors:

Shihan Chris Bissett - Chief Instructor Jishin-Ryu Jiu-Jitsu
Sensei Andy Dobie - President of Jitsu Canada
Sensei Rod Henricks - Head Instructor Inukshuk Bushido Kai in Edmonton
Sensei Malcolm Bale - Head instructor Calgary JuJitsu GMA in Calgary
Guro Joel Huncar - Raven Martial Arts and Huncar Applied Natural Defense Systems
Sensei Kevin D. Lintott - Chief instructor AJJA / Goshinkan-Ryu JuJitsu
Sensei Trevor Tessier - Head Instructor Panther Management Group
Sensei Tom Gillis - Head Instructor Foothills Training Services

Brochure on Camp of Combat Arts 2009

Poster Camp of Combat Arts 2009

Itinery and Information on Camp 2009

This year we are booking a Private Camp site for attendees and their families only. The site is at the Clearwater Tipi campsite just minutes west of Calgary. You can set up your own tent or trailer or book one of the large Tipi's to stay in. The cost of camping is free for your family however a small donation would be appreciated to cover the cost of the rental. We only ask that you help us clean up the sites prior to us leaving on the last day.

For more information or to book your spot please contact Sensei Lintott

Meaing of Goshinkan

Goshinkan is composed of three Japanese words: Go, Shin and Kan. As with many Japanese words these have many translations, since the meaning of Japanese words often depends on the situation they are put in.

Go means the five virtues of a warrior, according to Bushido, as well as the five virtues of a Goshin student. It also represents the five steps to a confrontation response, which are: exit or talk, distract, move in, takedown, & hold-down. Lastly, it can be interpreted as hard techniques and movements.

Shin, when combined with Go, creates “self-defense; or protection of the body.

Kan is the hall or school for the stuy of the way. Kan is also the meaning for Canadian Style of Ju-Jitsu.

Goshinkan - is the home of self preservation; home of the strong spirit and school of self-defense.

Goshinkan Ju Jitsu is not a “style” of Ju Jitsu. I find it very hard to say that one individual can invent a style. I believe many people contribute to all martial arts, style or not. I have studied both modern and traditional arts; there is something from every art I have studied in our syllabus. The more we try and refine one set style and claim it as our own the less the art has left. I even wonder how many of the traditional arts I have studied were as accurate as the Sensei said they were. Techniques often have the influence of the Sensei and this is only natural. If you have ever been in a classroom where one person tells a short sentence to the person next to them until the whole group has passed on the sentence, the original topic is completely different than the last person’s topic. That being said, how could one individual pass on a martial art from generation to the next generation and say it never changed?