Hey everybody, thought I'd ask if anyone else had heard of some stuff I hear from a friend is being taught in my neck of the woods:
ZANSHINDO: (cribbed from wikipedia)
Zanshindo is a mixed martial art founded in 1997 by Will McCullough and is also known as McCullough Submission Fighting. It is currently taught in Beaufort, SC and Savannah, GA by Sensei Abe Stem and Brittany stem and in Crossville, TN by Sensei Dustin Davis. The first students to earn a Black Shirt/Black Belt were Capt. Dan Hinton (USMC), Derrick Capers (2nd degree), and Dustin Davis (2nd degree).
Zanshindo (The Zanshin Way) - Zanshin is defined as a relaxed state of total awareness allowing complete attention to the moment: the focusing of the mind (without thought or emotion) on everything in and around you.
Zanshindo (aka McCullough Submission Fighting) combines the most realistic and effective training methods and techniques of the following European and Asian martial arts into one system:
Budokan & Matsukazi-Ryu Jujitsu- holds, submissions, takedowns, escapes, & chokes
Muay-Thai Kickboxing- evasive movements, punches, kicks, elbows, & knees
Sambo- a Russian art known for its leg & ankle locks
Aikido- wristlocks, immobilizations, & throws
Freestyle Wrestling- takedowns & groundwork
L.I.N.E.- Marine Corps Close Combat, central nervous system overload theory
Shuai Chiao- throws & sweeps
What really sets Zanshindo apart is not just what it teaches, but how it teaches-through practical training with plenty of one-on-one interaction. Each student is required to learn the techniques completely and then is allowed to teach other students with the help of his or her instructor. This allows for each student to have suggestions and input from several different body types and experience level which in turn will provide a much more well-rounded fighter.
You can read the whole thing here
BTW, since the whole article is just a big advertisement for the art, I'm tempted to nominate it for deletion while I'm thinking about it.
Just looking around on the web, I am inclined to think this is bullshido. Just looking at the components, what do we have?
Matsuzaki-Ryu Jujitsu: a little web searching finds a lot of links to some kind of pressure point wrestling thing. Questionable.
Budo-kan Jujitsu: Budo is well...budo, and kan means "hall," right? So Hall of Budo style? I'm not a judoer but this sounds really generic to me.
Muay Thai: Good. Hard to refute since who couldn't at least learn to go through the motions of the techniques in a little while?
Sambo: Exotic, good claim for an MMA person these days along with MT
Aikido: Hey, anybody who can mix aikido with MT is a god. I can't Kote Gaeshi through boxing gloves for shit :-P
Freestyle Wrestling: One of the instructors was on the high school wrestling team.
L.I.N.E.: It's not a bullshido party til we've invoked the military. The Tennessee instructor says that he "has over 13 years experience in martial arts and is a veteran of the Georgia Full Contact, No Holds Barred fight scene. He has trained Marine Corps Close Combat Instructors and Close Combat Instructor Trainers." Surely this is verifiable. How old is this guy? What's his (military) rank? I don't have the search skills here, but it seems like a "close combat instructor trainer [trainer]" should be easy to track down. I don't think I can even bring myself to comment on the nonsense that must be "central nervous system overload theory." A google search gives me three results, all from nearly identical wikipedia, answers.com, and geocities webpages.
I can probably do more of this on my own, but if anybody has the time and can find something out about this stuff, I'd be interested in knowing if any of it might have a basis in reality.
ZANSHINDO: (cribbed from wikipedia)
Zanshindo is a mixed martial art founded in 1997 by Will McCullough and is also known as McCullough Submission Fighting. It is currently taught in Beaufort, SC and Savannah, GA by Sensei Abe Stem and Brittany stem and in Crossville, TN by Sensei Dustin Davis. The first students to earn a Black Shirt/Black Belt were Capt. Dan Hinton (USMC), Derrick Capers (2nd degree), and Dustin Davis (2nd degree).
Zanshindo (The Zanshin Way) - Zanshin is defined as a relaxed state of total awareness allowing complete attention to the moment: the focusing of the mind (without thought or emotion) on everything in and around you.
Zanshindo (aka McCullough Submission Fighting) combines the most realistic and effective training methods and techniques of the following European and Asian martial arts into one system:
Budokan & Matsukazi-Ryu Jujitsu- holds, submissions, takedowns, escapes, & chokes
Muay-Thai Kickboxing- evasive movements, punches, kicks, elbows, & knees
Sambo- a Russian art known for its leg & ankle locks
Aikido- wristlocks, immobilizations, & throws
Freestyle Wrestling- takedowns & groundwork
L.I.N.E.- Marine Corps Close Combat, central nervous system overload theory
Shuai Chiao- throws & sweeps
What really sets Zanshindo apart is not just what it teaches, but how it teaches-through practical training with plenty of one-on-one interaction. Each student is required to learn the techniques completely and then is allowed to teach other students with the help of his or her instructor. This allows for each student to have suggestions and input from several different body types and experience level which in turn will provide a much more well-rounded fighter.
You can read the whole thing here
BTW, since the whole article is just a big advertisement for the art, I'm tempted to nominate it for deletion while I'm thinking about it.
Just looking around on the web, I am inclined to think this is bullshido. Just looking at the components, what do we have?
Matsuzaki-Ryu Jujitsu: a little web searching finds a lot of links to some kind of pressure point wrestling thing. Questionable.
Budo-kan Jujitsu: Budo is well...budo, and kan means "hall," right? So Hall of Budo style? I'm not a judoer but this sounds really generic to me.
Muay Thai: Good. Hard to refute since who couldn't at least learn to go through the motions of the techniques in a little while?
Sambo: Exotic, good claim for an MMA person these days along with MT
Aikido: Hey, anybody who can mix aikido with MT is a god. I can't Kote Gaeshi through boxing gloves for shit :-P
Freestyle Wrestling: One of the instructors was on the high school wrestling team.
L.I.N.E.: It's not a bullshido party til we've invoked the military. The Tennessee instructor says that he "has over 13 years experience in martial arts and is a veteran of the Georgia Full Contact, No Holds Barred fight scene. He has trained Marine Corps Close Combat Instructors and Close Combat Instructor Trainers." Surely this is verifiable. How old is this guy? What's his (military) rank? I don't have the search skills here, but it seems like a "close combat instructor trainer [trainer]" should be easy to track down. I don't think I can even bring myself to comment on the nonsense that must be "central nervous system overload theory." A google search gives me three results, all from nearly identical wikipedia, answers.com, and geocities webpages.
I can probably do more of this on my own, but if anybody has the time and can find something out about this stuff, I'd be interested in knowing if any of it might have a basis in reality.
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