This is the beginning of my personal martial arts. It is a living, breathing, growing thing and this is just the beginning. I have been wanting to start this for a while, but sometimes GOD chooses when you do things. GOD always gets it right.
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About
Minamoto Combat Science is my personal martial art. The name stems from the name given to my Shogen-Ryu dojo by the founder of the style, and my teacher, Taba Kensei, Hanshi. It translates to "root" or "origin" and held several meanings. It was the same Kanji and meaning as the word "Gen" from the name used for his style and indicated my dojo was "the original" school in the United States teaching his Shogen-Ryu Karatedo.
The funny thing is, Taba Sensei really did not like the idea of styles. He once told me that he would prefer not to have styles, but they were a necessary evil. His Shogen-Ryu was really just his take on the teachings of his teachers, among which were the legendary Okinawa Masters, Sokon, Chibana, and Nagamine. I am familiar with this practice from what I have seen in the Filipino Martial Arts. Students often train with many teachers and then begin teaching under a new style name. Guru Ken Pannell teaches Sikal, but he is one of the most versed martial artists I have ever met having trained under some of the most well known Filipino and Indonesian styles known. Minamoto Combat System follows that practice.
I have studied under some amazing martial artists. I have studied Okinawan, Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Indonesian, and other martial arts and learned that they are all very similar in a lot of ways. In addition, I have extensively studied the human body and the mechanics/physics of it. I do not practice, or teach, any of the arts I learned. I apply the scientific principles of the human body, the art of each system, and the combat/self defense basis of each technique and the result is something different, yet reminiscent of a time when there were no styles and a person's merit was based on his or her skill and an understanding of the line of teachers from which they learned.
The funny thing is, Taba Sensei really did not like the idea of styles. He once told me that he would prefer not to have styles, but they were a necessary evil. His Shogen-Ryu was really just his take on the teachings of his teachers, among which were the legendary Okinawa Masters, Sokon, Chibana, and Nagamine. I am familiar with this practice from what I have seen in the Filipino Martial Arts. Students often train with many teachers and then begin teaching under a new style name. Guru Ken Pannell teaches Sikal, but he is one of the most versed martial artists I have ever met having trained under some of the most well known Filipino and Indonesian styles known. Minamoto Combat System follows that practice.
I have studied under some amazing martial artists. I have studied Okinawan, Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Indonesian, and other martial arts and learned that they are all very similar in a lot of ways. In addition, I have extensively studied the human body and the mechanics/physics of it. I do not practice, or teach, any of the arts I learned. I apply the scientific principles of the human body, the art of each system, and the combat/self defense basis of each technique and the result is something different, yet reminiscent of a time when there were no styles and a person's merit was based on his or her skill and an understanding of the line of teachers from which they learned.