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The fundamental techniques of Shinseido

	The fundamental techniques of Shinseido represent the building blocks of the system. There are a great many different techniques, but all can be placed into categories representing techniques with certain common characteristics such as those which provide much the same muscle memory. I have taken trouble to choose a group of techniques that stand representative of all the techniques in our system. In other words, if you learn the following techniques to a high level of competence, you will not have a problem in learning any additional one's that come your way.

	It could be argued that the list can be reduced, and I would be obliged to agree. However, I have allowed a few additional techniques, in order to establish a strong foundation and framework of future reference.

There are eighteen techniques arranged into six groups of three. Aim to learn the shape of one set every week, after that you can practise it to a level of competence and speed.

Stances (Tachi waza)		Order of Practice

A	Tiger stance	Set 1	High inwards bridge
B	Horse stance		Back-fist strike
			Reversed thrust

Receiving techniques		Set 2	Inside foot block
			Rising bridge
1	High inwards bridge		Uppercut
2	Low outwards bridge
3	Low inwards bridge	Set 3	Low outwards bridge
4	High outwards bridge		Elbow smash
5	Rising bridge		Kick off front foot
6	Leg block
7	Inside foot block	Set 4	Leg block
8	Outside foot block		Hammer-fist strike
			Outside foot block
Thrusting techniques
		Set 5	Low inwards bridge
9	Lunge thrust		Sword hand strike
10	Reversed thrust		Knee smash

		Set 6	High outwards bridge
Striking techniques			Lunge thrust
			Kick off back foot
11	Sword hand strike
12	Hammer fist strike		Repeat the sequence of 18
13	Back-fist strike		techniques on the opposite
14	Uppercut		side

			Each set can be performed
Smashing techniques			first on one side and then
			on the other in slow broken
15	Elbow smash		down mode or flowing from
16	Knee smash		one technique to the next.
			Speed is not important
			initially.
Kicking techniques (Keri waza)

17	Kick off the back foot
18	Kick off the front foot

Methods of practise

	Students should be able to demonstrate all the above eighteen hand and foot techniques with competence:

	... as a one off sequence as The Basic Set
	... by repetition standing on the spot in horse stance
	... with regular stepping - forwards and backwards
	... forwards with pivot turns and step turns
	... scooting in stance
	... in four directional format
	... in combination of any three techniques in succession

	Some examples of combinations

	High in, high out bridging
	High in, low out bridge
	Low in bridge, high out bridge different version now with low palm in - not back of hand
	Low in, back-fist strike
	High out, high out, thrust
	Low in, low out, back-fist strike