Training at our club provides:
- Self Defence
- Exercise
- Self Development
Forthcoming seminars:
Using the methods of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) we train (for both men and women):
We train first and foremost for self defence. We use methods that will give you true effectiveness and
confidence as quickly as possible – and that means hard work and sweat!
The stiffness you will feel after the first session just shows how you are transforming your body –
by two weeks you will be feeling great! But hard work does not mean we want to be macho in our
training; in fact, we want to have fun!
While our primary aim is self defence, some members of the club like to use the highly effective
training methods for competitions. In the last British Universities Vale Tudo Championships
(rules similar to those of the UFC) we achieved three gold models in three weight divisions.
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The club was formerly a traditional karate club but over the years training was gradually modified
by exploring the fundamental skills needed to deal with the full
range of self defence situations. That task is an open-ended one, an evolutionary one, because there is
not one final set of right answers for how to defend yourself. It's an evolution that depends on having
roots going deep into the past, so that one understands the genuine achievements of the old ways, as
well as the means for innovating effective solutions, so that each person discovers for themselves
useful principles and their application. Only by constant self-discovery are martial arts kept alive
for the future. Bruce Lee urged us to take only what works for us, discard what is useless, and
add what is uniquely your own . Our training reflects this philosophy.
The 'karate' in our name indicates
only that we train in striking, and the 'jutsu' that we train in grappling. The name involves no
commitment to any particular style or indeed to the methods of any particular country. And while I teach
what I know, my aim is not ultimately to create students who do as I do, but students who are
functionally effective in a full range of self defence scenarios
Ring the bells that still can ring
For further information, contact: Zoltán Dienes Tel. 01273 678550 or e-mail dienes@sussex.ac.uk.
"Let your rapidity be like the wind, your compactness be that of the forest. In raiding be like fire, in immovability like a mountain. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." --Sun Tzu, The Art of War [6:19]
"Using no way as a way, using no limitations as a limitation . . my style is the style of no style" Bruce Lee
Karl Tanswell: October/November! Details to be announced
Suitable for all martial artists, whatever rank or style, interested in self defence.
People join the University of Sussex Karate Jutsu Club at Brighton to learn a thorough self defence and physical
conditioning system. Whether a member of the university or not, anyone is welcome to train with us
given only an interest in developing the skills necessary for dealing with self-defence situations in
the context of a good work out and a cooperative fun atmosphere. Most people start training with the
club as beginners but many others arrive already proficient in one or more martial arts, interested in
rounding their skills out.
No self defence system is complete unless it covers all the above, though few martial arts styles do. Further, we train only what is proven to work in each of these areas.
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
(Leonard Chen, Anthem)
We teach principles for constructing effective solutions to split-second moments, not perfect
techniques for idealised static situations.
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