We are a Kodenkan Danzan Ryu Jujitsu School locates at New Man’s Karate in Placerville. Traditional, evolved, combative martial curriculum
Kodenkan Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu is a system of martial arts that can be likened to other martial arts such as Judo. The art incorporates techniques (usually against an assailant) such as foot sweeps, throws, chokes, joint-locks, and strikes (kicks and punches) to vital points of the body.
Danzan Ryu is a system of martial arts that is derived from a combination of traditional Japanese martial arts systems.
The art is similar in form to traditional Japanese jūjutsu, Judo and other arts that incorporate throws, sweeps chokes and locks (among other techniques).
The founder of the Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu Professor Henry Okazaki spent countless years studying many different arts and systems in his native Japan in order to create a new art that combined the best aspects of these arts to form his new Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu art.
Professor Okazaki began to formulate this new combination of arts that was to become known as Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu. He continued his study of the arts under under other Japanese martial arts masters who were living in Hawaii in the first part of the twentieth century.
The term 'Danzan Ryu' is the name Okazaki named his new art after Hawaii, the place he first taught the art. Dan Zan 紫檀山 refers to the Japanese name for Hawaii which translates as 'Sandalwood Mountain'. Danzan-Ryu therefore means Sandalwood Mountain School.
The Kodenkan Danzan Ryu system was founded by Professor Henry Seishiro Okazaki in 1929 on the island of Hawaii. His Kodenkan "School of the Ancient Tradition" was the center of much controversy in the very exclusively Asian martial arts circles of those days, since he insisted on teaching his system to members of all racial groups.
