Product Details

• Actors: David Dye
• Directors: George Alexander
• Format: Color, Digital Sound, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Yamazato
• DVD Release Date: October 25, 2003
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000162ZNS
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #43,640 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Shuyokan Ryu is a martial art teaching system made up of techniques taken from the traditional martial arts of Yoshinkan Aikido, Kodokan Judo and Jujitsu, and Shotokan Karate Jutsu. Shuyokan Ryu stresses, "self defense", not fighting. The founder and headmaster, Soke David Dye, has taken these techniques and put them into a practical form of martial art based on his 34 years as a police officer in California and his martial arts training and teaching since 1962. His self-defense system is better known as the "Samurai Cops System of Self-Defense". This Aikido series is a three volume set coveing the complete style of Shuyokan Ryu Aikido.

Volume #1- Techniques of Kotegaeshi (Reverse Hand)

Volume #2- Techniques of Shihonage (All Direction Throw) and Irminnage (Entering Throw)

Volume #3- Handgun, Knife and Club Disarming Techniques

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I like it!, March 11, 2005

By	Hans "Hans" (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews

Wow.. The kotegaeshi techniques here are great. Dye has an amazingly powerful aikido approach. The effective Yoshinkan style is clearly the foundation of his system. I think the late Gozo Shioda would smile looking at this. Now, you can do these throws smooth and soft and feel all spiritual, or you can slam the attacker hard to the ground/mat. This DVD-series is about self-defense in the real world. It takes a lot of practice though. Keep up the good work Sensei Dye! :)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Instructions, is it worth it??, January 25, 2007

By	T. Hom (California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great instructional video. It's like having the instructor in your house, but nothing like going to the mat yourself and learning hands on. It has a ten minutes introduction with basic instruction of break falls and rolls. Be warn though, these ten minutes of introduction is also repeated in the other two volumes. Overall you get less than 30 minutes of instruction. AND then you get ten minutes of advertisement. I was really hoping to get different advertisements per volume, but no luck. All in all good instructional, but you should go to your dojo. The 30 minutes of instruction may not be worth the price of $30. = T

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Pleased., February 21, 2006

By	aikidoka for good "Mugger" (Atlanta,GA) - See all my reviews

The instructions and quality of the Video are outstanding.The Kotogaeshi is showed from different attacks. I'm working to get the other 2 videos.For me Quality in instructions and Video is a plus, this DVD passed it with Flying Colors.
Nihon Goshing aikido Purple Belt.