Pressure Point Guide
Pressure Point Guide
Pressure Point Guide
Pressure
Points
3
Jujitsu Techniques
by Small-Circle Jujitsu
Founder Wally Jay
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technique is executed is seen as insulting the master. Wo Chong and in gratitude to others who had crossed
Thats what happened to Jay when he started examin- the color barrier to teach him things of value, Okazaki
ing and changing how he did the brand of jujutsu he taught people of all racial backgrounds. Okazaki was
learned from Henry Okazaki. great, Jay says. He was the first guy to teach any na-
Pretty soon, all my peers hated me, Jay says. tionality. And this was in the 1920s.
What are you doing, changing Okazakis art? Are you Perhaps this idea of individual interpretation and
trying to make Okazaki look bad? I said, No, Okazaki development is easier to accept if we recognize that
changed, too. He did a lot of changing. small-circle jujitsu or any other art, for that matter
In fact, Okazaki studied kung fu and other arts at doesnt exist as a fixed reality. Its always chang-
a time when that wasnt done. And he had tremen- ing. I keep changing all the time, Jay insists. Im still
dous respect for Wo Chong, the man who broke with changing.
tradition to teach kung fu to a non-Chinese. So when The development of small-circle jujitsu came about
Okazaki formalized his art an art based on tradi- because Jay examined the spaces in the jujitsu hed
tional jujitsu, Kodokan judo, Philippine knife fight- been practicing. Those spaces were moments in a
ing, Okinawan karate, Hawaiian lua, Chinese kung fu technique when an opponent might find an oppor-
and anything else that contributed value he chose tunity to escape. The problem that intrigued him was
the name danzan-ryu in part to honor Wo Chong. how to eliminate the wiggle room. What ultimately
(Danzan is a contraction of the Chinese name for developed from that search is small-circle jujitsu,
Hawaii, Dan-Hung-Zan.) And following the example of though the actual meaning of the Japanese charac-
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Leon Jay (left) grabs Wally Jay by the throat, and Wally responds with a finger poke to the suprasternal notch at a pressure point called Co-22/tiantu
(1). He then grasps his sons right hand with his left hand and applies a basic wrist lock (2). Using his index finger, he presses on the back of the captured
hand at a pressure point known as TW-3/zhongzhu to induce pain (3-4).
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As Leon Jay (left) attempts to choke Wally Jay, the father slips his left hand to the inside of his opponents right forearm (1). He then uses his left hand to
push Leons right wrist forward and his right wrist to strike a pressure point called TW-12/xiaoluo, located at the center of the triceps (2-3). The movement
combines two principles: using a pressure point to release the shoulder and using two-way action. The opponents body moves behind the defenders (4),
who then slips under his arm (5) and applies rubbing pressure to the body of Golgis tendon receptor near the elbow (6).
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*NOTE: This piece was originally published in the January 2006 issue of Black Belt. Professor Wally Jay passed
away May 29, 2011, at the age of 93. To read tributes and learn more about this martial arts luminary, visit
www.smallcirclejujitsu.com.
SMALL-CIRCLE JUJITSU
by Wally Jay
Professor Wally Jay is one of the few martial artists this century to
have come up with a theory of fighting, developed it and put it into
practice. His influence is felt throughout the martial arts industry.
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