The Nihon Tai-Jitsu is a Martial Art of Japanese conception, whose origins like structured martial art, date from XVIth century.

The prestigious Master Minoru Mochizuki brings it for the first time to Europe in 1.951, date in which it begins its expansion by the continent, by means of his disciple, the french Jim Alcheik. After the death of this last one, Master Roland Hernaez takes the reins of the Nihon Tai-Jitsu being in charge of its diffusion, not without before construct the technical bases and developing the methodologic structure of the actual Nihon Tai-Jitsu.

This does not mean that the Nihon Tai-Jitsu that we know now differs greatly from the Tai-Jitsu practiced in the Japanese midle Ages, but that its techniques are more structured, it has become rich with new contributions and basic groups of techniques that have been created for the learning and the evolution of the pratitioners, around which it turns the fundamental concepts of the system. Really, the techniques continue being traditional, but however the education method is completely new, which allows to the practitioners a better assimilation of the technical program, that is more adapted to the occidental mentality.

The Nihon Tai-Jitsu is a pure art of self-defense that is oriented to obtain the highest effectiveness with the minimum effort in any situation, for that reason their practitioners train all the distances of confrontation, from the long distance, where the use of fists and legs is possible, until the distance of contact or hand-to-hand, where it can be more appropriate the use of throwing, without neglecting of course, the ground work.

The training is against one or several adversaries, armed or disarmed, trying to prepare the taijitsuka so that he can be able to confront any situation.

In the Dojo or training room, norms of conduct and behavior are followed that not only starts and finish with the greeting at the beginning and at the end of the class, but that sublie in the spirit of their practitioners, conforming what for many it is a way of life.

Like Martial Art, the Nihon Tai-Jitsu, in addition to its evident practicingness, provides physical benefits between which are the elasticity, flexibility, power, force, mobility, coordination, agility and resistance.

Also with its practice, mental benefits are obtained since it increases the concentration, the emotional stability and the confidence in itself, favors the touching distension and nervous, it canalizes the aggressiveness and it forms the character.

In order to practice it, it is not needed to be strong, does not matter if he is man or she is woman, is not necessary a special physical training conditions and it does not concern the physical constitution of the person.

The Nihon Tai-Jitsu is an open system that leaves from basic techniques, that allow the evolution of the practitioners towards more complex techniques. It consists of atemis (blows with different parts of the arm and the leg), locks, throws, sweepings, chokes, immobilizations, controls, techniques of conduction, etc.

Within the Nihon Tai-Jitsu the practitioner chooses the answer that adapts more to its preferences, their capacity and its physical aptitudes. The training of different supposed from aggression, will give taijitsuka the capacity to make an answer, fast and effective, that could be simple or complex based on the situation in which the aggression takes place. The great technical fan that the Nihon Tai-Jitsu puts into the hands of its practitioners, will give the opportunity them to win in an unfortunate encounter. The advantage of the maximun energy, the knowledge of the techniques of strike and their use like opening and completion techniques , the use of locks, throws, take downs and chokes and the use of the displacements at the beginning of the defensive action, are principles that taijitsuka will apply with logic to construct of immediate form the defensive action.

The practitioner is free to choose the techniques that adapt more to their physical constitution or to his personal preferences and also he is free to incorporate to his technical repertoire, everything what he considers valid, whenever can be used within the fundamental principles of the system. He does not mean this that the Nihon Tai-Jitsu is an eclectic system, but simply, that does not limit its practitioners on the techniques that must use.

The defense is made without weapons, of proportional form to the received attack, with the maximum respect by the life of the adversary and the maximum control in the execution of the techniques, taking advantage of the principles the maximun effectiveness and following logical criteria that guarantee our own security in the course of the defense.

The Nihon Tai-Jitsu is structured in six groups: Fundamental Technique, Kihon, Technique of Base, Applied Technique, Kata and Randori.

TheFundamental Technique groups to all those movements that the practitioner must know according to his level. Within this group the practitioner separately learns forms of greeting, positions, displacements, defenses, atemis or blows, locks, sweepings, throws, immobilizations, controls and chokes.

TheKihon is a assembly of fifteen series of four movements each one containing the fundamental techniques of the system so that the practitioner is acquiring the fluency and the ability necessary to make the practical application of the studied techniques in the first group, but of a structured and pre-established work form.

TheTechnique of Base is formed by a assembly of 24 techniques, grouped in three groups of eight techniques each one. Against eight possible take holds of the hands, the practitioner escapes of a predetermined form, defending itself with an atemi, a lock or a throw. These techniques serve as it bases for the development of the system, because in them are contents all its basic principles.

TheApplied Technique consists of the training of the defense in situations of attack by one or several adversaries. All the possible situations are trained: Attempts of strike, take holds (frontal, back and lateral), situations of hand-to-hand, defense in the ground, defense against arms (stick, knife and pistol) and in general all those situations that can be given by improbable that sometimes they can seem. The practitioner of Nihon Tai-Jitsu applies a series of concepts at the time of carrying out the defense, that are destined to preserve their integrity at any moment and to ensure the completion of the techniques to make. Thus, he prefers whenever it is possible to him, to carry out a displacement or tai-sabaki before the attack of the opponent, trying in addition that displacements was by the outside of the attack, to always be in the most advantageous position. He tries an "atemi" called preparatory to precede his techniques, that is used for "distracting ", of very painful form, the attention of the attacker and to ensure this way the completion of the defense. The tai-jitsuka tries to chain several techniques, in which they can be including for example, several atemis, a lock, a throw and a final control with the adversary in the ground.

TheKata in Nihon Tai-Jitsu, has the main mission of preserve the techniques throughout the time. Three basic katas exist that are made in solitaire, a kata of Kihon, five fundamental katas that they are executed with companion, and two superior katas which also they are executed by pairs and that are traditional forms of the Japanese Nihon Ju-Jitsu.

Finally the Randori or fights, constitutes the ideal method, by means of which the taijitsuka verifies the effectiveness of his techniques against surprise attacks. Different types exist from randori: against two, against three, in circle, with arms and prepared. In randori against two the taijitsuka faces an adversary, whereas in randori to three the opponents are two. In randori in circle, five attackers surround to the defender that is attacked without rest by these. Normally two of the attackers go armed. In randori with arms the taijitsuka makes defenses against one or two adversaries armed normally of stick and knife. Finally in the prepared randori the taijitsuka makes with one or several companions, with the intention of serving like technical demonstration in exhibitions or examinations.

Within theNihon Tai-Jitsu, the competition is not conceived like in other Martial Arts that nowadays have derived towards the sport. The fight competition in which a taijitsuka openly faces another one the objective to win him, is completely discarded within theNihon Tai-Jitsu, since it does not enter within his principles to use the knowledge that our Martial Art contributes to us, to use them like an aggressor. By the way, we thought so that it would be impossible to make this type of competition without limiting the techniques to apply, and as it has happened with other Martial Arts, since the use of all the technical resources of the Nihon Tai-Jitsu would imply without a doubt the injury of one of the competitors. For this reason the competition within the Nihon Tai-Jitsu is limited a technical competition where the competitors, who appear by pairs, make a technical and coordinated work on kata, randori prepared and technical applied.

In order to finish, the Nihon Tai-Jitsu is a martial art whose effectiveness is widely proven. It is used in the formation of the agents of diverse police bodies, and is ideal for all those people who wish be formed in the self-defense, although also it is possible to be trained simply to do a little of exercise, like relaxation activity, to make something "different" from the daily tasks or why not, to amuse themselves and to stimulate the technical creativity, looking for for example, a new scape to an attack or take hold.

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