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James Rosenbach's history is highly entwined with that of Robert Bussey, one of the early "pioneers" of ninjutsu/Bujinkan in the US... although Bussey himself himself often went to pains (later) to state that that was more to do with timing than anything like his experience in that art...
As Tony said, Bussey was one of the early US guys to follow Hayes to Noda and train (briefly) with Hatsumi... but before that, he had trained for a number of years in a form of TKD, and, at the age of 16, had opened his first school (in 1977). As he was too young to legally run a business, his main training partner, being a few years older, had the school in his name... that being James Rosenbach. When Bussey then added the early Bujinkan methods to his approach, James went along with that as well (one of the sources of controversy with Bussey is that he always combined and integrated a range of various skills, combining the Bujinkan approach with the high kicking of TKD, and so on, rather than actually teaching any of the systems "purely" themselves). A number of years into his Bujinkan training, Bussey decided to not continue with the organisation, instead to create his own modernised form of the teachings, again with combining everything Bussey had done, and continued to develop and add.
Bussey's approach had him labelled the "King of Combat" in the media... a title earned through his severe training methods and dedication, his integration of so many disparate methods, and his innovation in creating new training methods and approaches. He named this approach "RBWI", or "Robert Bussey's Warrior International", which continued to grow through the late 80's and early/mid-90's, until Bussey, seemingly at the height of popularity for his schools, decided practically overnight to dissolve the organisation. He would then go on to found Robert Bussey Combatives, and today teaches to select groups, while overseeing his organisation of black belt instructors.
Rosenbach would also go on (when Bussey retired from public teaching) to continue the legacy he gained from Bussey, establishing the mentioned RWTB (Rosenbach Warrior Training Branches), which this thread is about. All in all, Rosenbach has over 40 years experience training and teaching an eclectic mix of Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Brazilian, proto-MMA, and other methods. There is a solid realistic basis to much of it, through the research and training of Rosenbach and Bussey together, with one of the early approaches to what we now refer to as Reality Based training.
