Self Defense 101 applications - Double Wrist Grab 2

Defense illustration agains a double wrist grab - palm cross technique

Self Defense 101 applications - Single Wrist Grab

Defense illustration against a single wrist grab.

Video recorded by Thomas A. Felder (6 years old)

Tensho Goju Woodline Training

Tensho Goju Fighting Tigers (youth) woodline training consisted of a rigorous physical workout and various self defense applications of aiki jitsu. Illustration is that of a hook sweep take down defense against a punch.

Self Defense Workshop - Taking Authority, Final Review

Thank you for attending the Self Defense Workshop and allowing me to share my skills by blessing you with some beneficial countermeasures against armed attackers. My workshops are of variety and usually never follow the same lesson plan. Therefore, the next workshop will focus on totally different approaches by an assailant, so be sure to sign the guestbook or send an email that your name can be added to the next workshop calendar announcement.

Pros and Cons to Realistic Training

Teaching martial has always been one of my greatest highlights throughout my 37 years of martial arts training. I enjoy sharing my skills and always consider myself blessed to be a blessing. I've trained over a thousand students and earned the respect of each one from youngest to oldest. My training antics have never changed from the time I opened my first dojo in 1983 regarding full contact approach in self defense and reality training. This would involve illustrations of defensive techniques and allowing my students to apply the techniques on me after I attack. I've taken a great deal of physical abuse through the years with eye gauges, kicks and knees to the groin, throws, finger and joint locks, scratches and head butts to the face in order to ensure students achieve the level of confidence to deploy the techniques in a life threatening situation and survive.

Click on the photo to the right and view the MMA magazine footage with Grandmaster Ron Van Clief and me training two brutal days of ground fighting tactics. Always a student of the martial arts regardless of title, rank or position.

Many have asked when I will stop allowing my body to be used as a human practice aid. Well, I guess the appropriate answer would be when it stops allowing me. Have a blessed day, Hanshi :-)

Home Training Program - Defense Knee Drop Application

Enroll in the Tensho Goju Home Training Program and receive up to date illustrations of monthly student training sessions, along with step by step video footage of Tensho Goju Aiki Jitsu and Self Defense.

Chair Defense Application with Thomas Felder Hanshi

Master Felder illustrates three scenerio based self defense applications from a chair seated position.

Nunchakas Basic movements of Tensho Goju

Follow through with the basic movementsw of the nunchakas with Thomas Felder Hanshi. Techniques shown are derived from the Tensho Goju system. Practice slowly for proper development of application and skill.