The European Daito Ryu Aikibudo Daito Kai is a School that teaches a complete martial art: among the hand-to-hand combat techniques with atemi waza (kicks, strikes, elbow hits etc.), nage waza (throws), shime waza (strangles), kansetsu waza (joint-locks), kyusho waza (pressure on vital points of the human body) and aikinojutsu (throws), the practitioner studies the use of all the ancient weapon of the bushi (like katana, yari, bo etc.). The many techniques of the aikijujutsu (over 3.000 techniques) are transmitted and catalogued in scrolls (the mokuroku) which, in this case of the hiden mokuroku, is divided in a series (kajo), of an increasing difficulty of execution. The techniques are then divided in way of performing them: idori: both the practitioners train while kneeling; hanza handachi: tori is kneeling, uke standing; tachiai: both are standing; ushirodori: uke attacks tori from the rear (standing).

Teaching is divided in:

1. Jujutsu (柔術) : unarmed techniques; method of relying primarily on atemi.
2. Aikinojutsu (合気の術) : unarmed techniques; method of replying mainly aiki (合気) concepts .
3. Aikijujutsu (合気柔術) : unarmed techniques; method of combining atemi with aiki concepts.

Shoden (the 118 basic techniques)

Ikkajo: this series is made of 30 tecniche so divided: 10 in idori, 5 in hanza handachi, 10 in tachiai and 5 in ushiro dori.
Nikajo: as the first series, 30 techniques
Sankajo: as the first series, 30 techniques
Yonkajo: thise series is made of 15 techniques only performed in tachiai (standing).
Gokajo: this series is made of 13 techniques, but it's structured in a peculiar way,
with 6 jujutsu techniques in tachiai plus 7 subsections:
- Tasudori: techniques against two or more opponents.
- Emonodori: self-defense techniques while holding bags or precious boxes.
- Tankendori: techniques against wakizashi, aikuchi, tanto attacks.
- Bodori: techniques against staff attacks.
- Juttedori: defense and attack techniques with the jutte (a baton used by the Japanese feudal police).
- Daitodori: techniques against sword attacks (katana).
- Kasadori: techniques against many different kind of attacks while tori is holding a Japanese umbrella (kasa).

Teaching is also divided in three levels of depth and ability:

1. SHODEN, the teaching of base. It includes the first two catalogs (mokuroku)

2. CHUDEN, the median teaching. It includes 3° and the 4° catalog.

3. SOUDEN, the superior teaching. It includes the last catalog and the secret teachings (okuden).

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