Visual Training

I am acutely aware that there are "different" ways to apply the Tuite techniques that Oyata had demonstrated to individual's during his years on the "seminar" circuit in the "80's" and "90's". Unfortunately, the majority of the attendees of those seminars never sought further instruction in the performance of those techniques. The majority just "took" what they saw, and assembled (something) that they thought was being demonstrated.

The vast majority of those individual's (simply) based what they had seen upon their own ideas of what was being done (and were typically incorrect). That has been clearly demonstrated by the resultant video's that have been presented by those individual's on "U-Tube" and the various available formats.

This is the (all to common) tendency of "Visual Training", where people only "see" a technique and then attempt to replicate it. When this is done, they commonly resort to muscling that technique, and if/when they are big or strong enough, they come up with some manner of motion, that "they" can perform (somewhat) similarly.

I've seen 2 or 3 videos that have attempted to "explain" how those techniques should be performed, and what was shown (at least to myself) demonstrated the complete lack of understanding (or study) that those individuals have devoted for the demonstrated applications. Each one was (IMO) "muscled" (to make it cause some manner of reaction).

Two of those videos used (what "we" call) the "push-catch" or "Palm-Press" application for demonstrative purposes. This technique is not the "easiest" of applications to (initially) utilize, but it is very useful for the instruction of the 6 Principles. In the aforementioned videos, (virtually) "all" of those principles were applied incorrectly and the "demonstrator/tori" didn't have a clue that they were doing so.

What I observed (within those videos) were "technique's" that those individual's had developed, and were now (obviously) teaching, but they had no (serious) relationship to Oyata's versions of them (despite any "claims" of having learned them from him).

"Tuite" has (repeatedly) been placed in the "sub-art" category of instruction. Because of that classification, the involved motions and techniques have been minimalized to being "bulk" limb motions/applications. The execution of "Block's"(sic) are given more attention than what was demonstrated within these "examples" of the applications. It's obvious (to us) that little to no time has been spent actually "studying" the execution of these motions (as is clearly demonstrated within those video releases).

We found it "interesting" that each of those videos relied on escalating "their" manner of executing the technique's to include some manner of "strike" to make it "effective"(?). This is one (of the numerous) things that make us doubtful of the individual's having (actually) "studied" the applications (at least in the manner that Oyata had stated should occur). When the techniques are being applied correctly, there's rarely a need for the inclusion of those "strikes". These "additions" are commonly the result of some level of technique misapplication (if not failure) of it's (correct) use.

In each of the aforementioned video's, the individual's focused (only) upon the aggressor's "wrist"(during the application of "their" technique's). It's obvious that these individual's "compartmentalize" their technique's and fail to consider or apply "whole" body application (of the demonstrated technique). This examples the fact that they are "muscling" (their own versions of) these techniques.

In each of those videos the individual's "suck" the aggressor's hand into/against their own body. The is done because people "feel" stronger when a motion/application is performed close to their own body. It additionally makes the opponent more capable of resisting the technique. By doing so, they have forced themselves to (then) have to "muscle" the application of the technique. If/ when the student has (even minimally) studied the application of these technique's, this becomes obvious. If the person's within those video's had used "larger" uke's, it's doubtful that any of the shown applications would have worked (as Oyata had demonstrated them). It was for that reason that (within our book) we had the smaller person performing the majority of the demonstrated applications.

The use of Tuite is not a manner of overpowering an aggressor. It is the application of motions that undermine the ability of the aggressor to resist those applications. Within the aforementioned video's it wasn't (just) a single factor of the applications that were being misapplied, it was (virtually) all of them.

Video's that (only) demonstrate "technique" application, (IMO) are pretty much worthless. Those videos exampled NO "Principles" for the completion or application of any of the demonstrated applications. What was shown, was how to "muscle" an aggressor's limb into a submission...maybe. The inclusion of Oyata"s name during their demonstration, does not provide any amount of validity for what was shown (as those applications included none of his application methods or principles).

If someone chooses to develop (?) their own version of Tuite (and subsequently) "teach" it, that's their business (and I could honestly care less). But I do care when they attempt to use Oyata's name to validate that instruction.