Zen Hakko Kaï

The creation of the group Zen-Hakko-Kaï is the result of the advance of a group of practitioners mâconnais, their meetings and exchanges which they could have starting from their discipline.

History

The Cercle of Martial arts Built allowed the installation of the ju-jitsu in the close area, since 1973, while making come from the experts each month and by organizing training courses of summer.

In 1976, Jean-Luc Manners, professor of the club, write a handbook of ju-jitsu which will be published into 1978 with the Amphora editions.

In 1977, the choice of a technical orientation is adopted: Hakko-Ryu-Ju-Jitsu. A group of clubs is made up under the aegis of various organizations diffusing teaching of this school.

In 1981, Jean-François Masnières, share to study this discipline with the Japan, in the Dōjō of the Master founder of the school Hakko-Ryu, Ryuho Okuyama. It returns from there with the rank of 5th daN, the title of Shihan and the authorization to formalize the creation of an autonomous group. It is the birth of the French Dojo of Hakko-Ryu-Ju-Jitsu . This one governs the creation of several clubs in the various areas of France, diffuses the technique, publishes the Technical Books relating to the progression of this school, ensures the management training and organizes promotional demonstrations (public demonstrations, technical official receptions, critérium, etc).

But the work of the group is not limited to Hakko-Ryu. Meetings and exchanges take place with experts of other schools of ju-jitsu and Kempo. These profitable contacts result in reconsidering the framework of teaching. The year 1987 devotes the widening of the field of work and the installation of a new technical progression: the Zen-Hakko-Kaï .

In 1993 a work, published with the Solar editions and carried out by Jean-luc and Jean-François Masnières, ensures the promotion of the group and the diffusion of its technique and its progression near the general public, in France like abroad.

In August 2006, Jean-François Masnières is deceased.

Technical principles

In addition to the general principles common to all the schools of ju-jitsu, the originality of the Zen-Hakko-Kaï is based on a certain number of specificities which induce its form and the contents of the progression of study.

Directly resulting from l' Hakko-Ryu-Ju-Jitsu, the Zen-Hakko-Kaï is an extrapolation of the basic principles of this traditional school (other than its medical purpose), through situations and of modes of expression corresponding to very varied contexts.

The methods of drive and the forms of practice were enriched in order to offer to the practitioners a complete discipline, to the sporting character more marked and leading to a real practical effectiveness.

Specific principles

The basic principle of the school consists in immediately turning over the attack against the adversary (positive action). I.e. against must be most direct possible, limits of application of this principle being reaction time and the danger represented by the shape of attack of the adversary.

Independently of the nuances which one can bring to this basic rule and which correspond to the diversity of the situations, the various techniques of the progression can be characterized as follows:

  • the action of defense is most positive possible in order not to leave the advantage to the adversary and to use its initial energy directly (opposition to the Aïkido).
  • to be directly operative, the form of defense adapts to the conditions of the attack and uses in a preferential way the levers and contacts offered by the adversary (difference with the Judo).
  • the execution of the technique takes place while even preserving by reinforcing the contacts, to act directly on the balance of the adversary, before it reacts or a blocking carries out.
  • the action is progressive and continuous, in order not to deteriorate the conditions offered by the other (to channel its energy and to draw party advantageously from it). It is carried out in the form and the spirit according to all the principles which govern the Flexible Art.

Practical application

The diversity of the situations of combat and the realism which must stick to the definition of the applicable forms of defense, lead to adopt and interpret the basic principle of the school.

This is why, in practice, there exists a certain number of intermediate situations during which the modes of expression can even border to meet the technical shapes of other schools or disciplines.

Whatever the adopted technical solutions, the training is carried out initially in slow long series, intended to educate the body, to develop the automatisms, to affirm the contacts, to measure the good progress of the action, to take care of the continuity and the progressiveness of its effects on the adversaire.
All the levels of the practice, this form of work is a constant of the drive, the means of progressing always more in the way of a real effectiveness although not very perceptible in the visual plan.

Speed intervenes at a second stage. It is accompanied by a work intended to develop the automatisms, under conditions which become increasingly complex, as the technical level of the practitioner rises.

Lastly, the study and the work of the atémis form integral part of the drive, whatever the level of the practitioner.

Structure

The technical evolution of 1987 was accompanied by a widening of the geographical field of intervention of the group. The teaching of the Zen-Hakko-Kaï exceeded the French borders, in particular in Spain, Belgium and in Luxembourg.

Because of the geographical dispersion of the clubs, the choice of a centralized structure was adopted. However, of many demonstrations are organized on the initiative of the areas (demonstrations, training courses, technical meetings…).

A school of frameworks is instituted with the seat of association with Mâcon where training courses are regularly organized.

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