Living in Hawaii, I may have the unique opportunity to train in Hawaiian Lua...that is if I could actually find a teacher. I came across this article posted on a jujutsu dojo website.
http://www.pixi.com/~mcjitsu/okazaki/article03.html
Here are the techniques that are claimed to be part of the Hawaiian art of bone breaking system.
Thoughts?
http://www.pixi.com/~mcjitsu/okazaki/article03.html
Upon first hearing that Professor Okazaki incorporated Hawaiian Lua into his system, I have been trying to find out where the lua was hidden, which techniques were of Hawaiian origin, and why these lua techniques were kept so secret. No one seemed to know where the lua was among the hundreds of techniques contained within the system Professor Okazaki called Danzan Ryu. For more than thirty years, I sought answers to these questions by searching libraries across the country and within various Hawaiian island communities. It seemed as though Hawaii, itself, had lost the mysterious art of lua, or possibly that someone or group had painstakingly combed through the public archives and removed all traces of this ancient art.
After personally interviewing several of Okazaki's former students, talking to many older generation Hawaiians, and following several leads, I was able to make contact with a lua group in the summer of 1995. A time and place was set, and I prepared to meet with these warriors who practice the ancient way of bone breaking. Acutely aware of my own limitations, I was somewhat apprehensive about our first meeting. In retrospect, my friends had voiced a sense of fear based on stories they had heard about lua. As I followed the 'olohe-lua (instructor) to a private location at the base of a rugged mountain range, foremost in my mind were stories told to me by the old Hawaiians. One tale described of how the haole (foreigner) would be invited to participate in a lua training session with an established lua group, only to discover that he would actually be the object upon which the haumana (lua disciple) would practice. Following the life and death battle, the conquered victim's bones would be "bundled" after which he would be eaten alive!
Here are the techniques that are claimed to be part of the Hawaiian art of bone breaking system.
It is believed that Professor Henry Okazaki, father of American jujitsu, learned lua in 1917 from an old Hawaiian kumu (instructor) named David Kainhee in the Puna district of Hawaii, and mastered 46 lua 'ai (bone breaking techniques). When Professor Okazaki learned lua, he undoubtedly took an oath of secrecy for it was kapu (forbidden) to reveal those techniques to anyone who did not have Hawaiian blood. This may explain why Professor Okazaki's former students could not identify specific lua found within his system. By masking the lua and not revealing it to his students, Professor Okazaki upheld his oath to his Hawaiian instructor.
It is said that Professor Okazaki became Hawaii's foremost exponent of both jiujitsu and lua during his time. He recognized the tremendous significance of Hawaiian lua and so incorporated it into his system of self defense. The lua techniques hidden within Danzan Ryu include:
Accomplished Hawaiian lua artists of today readily recognize the lua contained within Professor Okazaki's techniques as listed above. It should be noted, however, that ever though the above techniques were acknowledged as lua, many of them exist within the Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, and Mayasian systems as well. After all, katate tori is not unique to only Japanese jujitsu. It is evident that Professor Okazaki highly esteemed Hawaiian lua and I believe his system pays silent tribute to those Hawaiian warriors who developed and perfected this extraordinary art. I also believe that every student of Okazaki's system should be aware of his martial arts heritage and gratefully acknowledge both Japanese jujitsu and Hawaiian lua. To those individuals who shared the spirit of kokua with Professor Okazaki in years past, and to those who shared and helped me find the truth, I owe a debt of gratitude and a sincere mahalo.
- ryote hazushi
- yubi toi
- katate tori
- ryote tori
- ryoeri tori
- akushu kote tori
- kubi nuki shime
- hadaka shime ichi
- osaegami jime
- shidare fuji jime
- mizukuguri
- komiri
- shigarami
- tora katsugi
- hiki otoshi
- kin katsugi
- hon gyaku san
- genkotsu ude tori ichi
- kesa nage
- ashi shigarami
- gyaku hayanada
- hizaori nage
- ebi shime
- ushiro ebi shime
- ushiro nage
- kesa koroshi
- tataki komi
- tsukikomi dome
- obi otoshi
- tsurigane otoshi
- tawara gaeshi
- selected techniques from Shingin No Make
Thoughts?