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	To pause the background music please click the pause button on the small quick time box above. This page last updated Sept 3, 2008. If you have an old page please type in www.manbi-masho.com for the most recent page. Our contact email is, manabi-masho.nc@embarqmail.com Soke Casarez doesn't own a computer, so please forward all of Soke Casarez's messages to this email and I will get the message to him. Thank you, Shihan Mark Murdock Beginner Special at Southern School of Martial Arts. Please click on the SSMA home page. www.manabi-masho.com represents the Manabi-Masho Jujitsu Federation, Soke John Casarez's Tri-City School of Martial Arts in Chesapeake, Ohio and Shihan/Shidoshi-Ho Mark Murdock's Southern School of Martial Arts and Rivers Edge Bujinkan Dojo in McGee's Crossroads area between Angier and I-40 in Eastern North Carolina. What's the difference? Manabi-Masho Jujitsu and MMA/BJJ Manabi-Masho Jujitsu is intended for self defense only and is not meant to be a sport or designed to be competive. Our goals are to teach practical life saving self defense. We're not "MMA" in the sports sense, however we are a real mixed martial art. We blend several styles together to get the most effective results. In a self defense situation there are no rules, anything must go. There may be more than one attacker or there could be weapons involved. As for the now popular MMA/BJJ/UFC tounaments, they're based on a controlled competive one on one match with timed rounds in a ring with various rules. Manabi-Masho Jujitsu is a specialized self defense system that teaches the student there are no rules. We teach striking, throwing, standing and ground grappling, weapons, weapon disarms and leathal techniques to be used in the real world to survive an attempt on your life. We do not use full contact sparring in our art, Why? it's because most of our techniques are taught to strike in the eyes, groin, throat and other soft areas of the body. Many of the joint locks are ment to instantly break a joint. This is why we don't spar and compete. It's just to dangerous and could cause serious injury or even death to a training partner. This is why we train in a slower controlled manner. Our goal is to teach and share our knowledge with others, not to compete with another martial art style or another person's knowledge. If you like our technique add it to your arsenal, if not leave it. Manabi-Masho Jujitsu is real self defense for the real world. For people who are interested in MMA, We do have techniques that can be modified and made safe for MMA. MMA/UFC is entertaining and great competive sport martial art style. Manabi-Masho Jujitsu is different however, it's "specialized" for self defense. For Manabi-Masho Jujitsu in Southern Ohio Please click on the Tri-City School of Martial Arts page. For Manabi-Masho Jujitsu in East Central North Carolina area please click the Southern School of Martial Arts page and for Bujinkan Ninjutsu in Central North Carolina please click on the Rivers Edge Bujinkan Dojo page. We do not require contracts at our schools. We're a pay by the month system. Grandmaster John Casarez is available for group seminars and private sessions, however due to large amount of seminars he's teaching currently through out the country his time is very limited. To schedule a seminar please get your request in early so you can be considered. First come, first serve. To contact Grandmaster John Casarez please call 740-867-8000. Shihan Mark Murdock is also available for seminars and private classes in North Carolina or the surrounding states. To schedule a seminar please call 919-753-7964 Pictured at the top of the webpage the Manabi-Masho Jujitsu Federation logo. Pictured second is Grandmaster John H. Casarez, founder of Manabi-Masho Jujitsu. Soke Casarez has 59 years in the martial arts. Please scroll down the page for pictures, videos and general information about the Manabi-Masho Jujitsu system. In the first three videos below Soke John Casarez, founder of Manabi-Masho Ju-Jitsu demonstrating practical self defense with flow and without form or pattern at the 2008 World Head of Family Sokeship Council Seminars, held this last Memorial Day weekend in San Antonio, TX. In the fourth video Shihan Mark Murdock demonstrating how to control an atacker with very little effort by appling a combination of finger locks. The last video is combat style knife defense techniques. All techniques are real and very effective. Beginners and lower ranking belts are never used as ukes for full contact demonstrations. A more detailed explanation of Manabi-Masho Jujitsu below In Manabi-Masho Jujitsu we teach realistic and practical life saving self defense from a blend of martial arts. There's no hard to learn katas or forms, no kicking above your head or jumping 6 feet in the air to break a board. As we always have, we teach in a natural free flow and free style way. Anyone, regardless of size or physical condition can learn to defend themself in Manabi-Masho Jujitsu. Our martial art is always evolving with new variations and creations from Soke John Casarez, Master/Shidoshi-Ho Mark Murdock and the other black belts of Manabi-Masho Jujitsu. The basics are always taught over and over so a student can master them. It's also important for a martial artist to evolve and not become stagnant. The world is ever changing and evolving. It's important for the martial artist to keep up with the changes. Manabi-Masho has always been a real mixed martial art. It blends several different martial art styles together; Jujitsu, Aikido, Judo, Karate, Ninjutsu, Eskrima, Stick and Knife Fighting. Learning the best techniques of several multiple martial arts styles and the putting them into a blend is more effective than learning only one traditional martial art style. The techniques of Manabi-Masho are free style, free flowing, random and without kata or pattern. This kind of training prepares a student for a random or surprise attack in the real world. There's no kata 3 for attack 2 in the real world. In a street fight situation punches and kicks are random and without pattern or warning. Our mixed martial art techniques are taught at a slower to medium speed and in a light to medium contact for the beginner student. This is due to the realism of the techniques. At full speed many of these techniques can cause serious injury to an untrained and unconditioned beginning student. Also the human brain learns more efficiently at a slower speed. It's like burning the technique to your hard drive. Once the technique is learned and mastered it can be applied at any strength or speed. As the student progresses up in rank they will be using more speed and more contact with their technique. High ranking brown belts through 1st degree black belts "and beyond" will be using more of a moderate to full contact with higher speeds "with control of course" using randori or a "controlled spar" to avoid serious injury to their training partner. As always the student has the choice to do only what they are comfortable with. If the student feels that a specific technique or excercise is too streneous or too difficult they will not be required to do that technique or excercise. The techniques of Manabi-Masho Jujitsu involve escapes from various grabs and holds, various joint locks, throws and some types of chokes, basic and advanced weapon disarms, as well as damaging strikes to the organs and bones. Students will also learn pressure points on the body and the throat. "Leathal or crippling techniques are not taught to children or any adult under brown belt level". Higher-ranking students learn a "flow" of techniques using defensive counters for various attacks, such as punches and grabs, guns and knives, sticks and other types of assaults. Overall Manabi-Masho Jujitsu is great for anyone, whether they are male or female, fit or unfit, big or small or at any age. It doesn't matter who you are, you can learn how to defend yourself without all the competition, vigerous MMA/UFC cage fight training, tounaments or hard to learn forms and katas of other sport oriented arts. Manabi-Masho is taught in a natural and easy to learn format. This makes the training more interesting and entertaining for the student. Most students retain much more when their martial arts training is interesting and fun. For persons with physical and or mild mental limitations we offer a special approach for their training. We're able to teach in a modified approach and most of the time can work around a mild mental and/or physical limitations or disabilites. In most situations we're able to modify our training to cater to those persons. Just because you have a limitation doesn't mean you can't earn a belt rank in our system. Our goal is to teach our students how to stay alive in a dangerous attack, not to win trophies or win titles. In Manabi-Masho Jujitsu we attempt to place some realism into the training. When someone is trying to hurt or kill you, points do not matter. When you are confronted by an attacker, it's unlikely that you'll be in an air-conditioned building, with protective padding. More likely, you'll be opening the door to your car on a hot or cold day in a parking lot. There may be broken glass or gravel on the ground. Your attacker may have a weapon or may have "his buddies" waiting to jump in. The skills taught in Manabi-Masho are tailored for this kind of self defense. We train for the real world. During our training if we do use full contact, we always use mats and protective equipment for saftey. On occasion we train outdoors. Training in Manabi-Masho is sometimes conducted in environments outside of the dojo. We train this way in order to increase the realism and to condition a student for these possibilities. In the end, the art of Manabi-Masho Jujitsu will always stand by it's mottos: Grandmaster Casarez; We don't win trophies, We win lives! The SSMA school motto: No Trophies, No Tournaments, You Win Your Life. Thank you for visiting our website please let us know if it was helpful. We hope you found all the information you were looking for, if not please call Master/Shidoshi-Ho Mark Murdock at 919-753-7964 for Southern School of Martial Arts or Rivers Edge Bujinkan Dojo in Angier, North Carolina or Grandmaster John Casarez at 740-867-8000 for the Tri-City School of Martial Arts in Chesapeake, Ohio Pictured above, Founder and Grandmaster, Soke John H. Casarez and SSMA's Master/Shidoshi-Ho Mark Murdock. Master Mark Murdock is currently the highest ranking black belt and master instructor in Manabi-Masho Jujitsu 2nd to Grandmaster Casarez. Pictured below Soke John Casarez and his instructors, students and friends during the 2008 San Antonio WHFSC event. Private tutoring available, please call for rates. For Soke Casarez in Ohio call 740-867-8000 or for Master/Shidoshi-Ho Mark Murdock in North Carolina call 919-753-7964 Class at Southern Shool of Martial Arts. At Tri-City School of Martial Arts in Chesapeake, OH. and Southern School of Martial Arts in McGees Crossroads, NC. Age doesn't matter. Anyone can learn how to defend themselves at our school. Tri-City Assistant Instructor Michael Newell during a recent Tri-City class. Master/Shidoshi-Ho Mark Murdock working with a new Tri-City student during a recent visit to Soke's Tri-City School of Martial Arts. Master Mark Murdock returns several times a year to stay current in Manabi-Masho Jujitsu. Assistant Instuctor Wayne Williams, Austin and new student Erick at a recent at SSMA. A special private seminar by Grandmaster John H. Casarez at Southern School of Martial Arts in April, 2004. In the picture Jon, Clayton, Err and the late Lee Brothers. Sensei Wayne Williams helping teach the children's Kobushi-Do class at SSMA. 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