​The Ryus of Japanese Ju-Jitsu

​Kito Ryu
​Iikubo Tsunetoshi

Tenshin Shinyo ​Ryu
Iikubo Tsunetoshi

Fushen Ryu
​Mataemon Tanabe

Yoshin Ryu 
Totsuka Hikosuke

Jikishin-Ryu
​Terada Kanemon

In the early 1880's as Japan’s feudal period ended, when Japanese society began to change structurally causing the art of Jujitsu, to begin to die out, In an attempt to preserve the arts of Jujitsu Professor Jigoro Kano, a teacher from Tokyo and an expert in many types of Jujitsu, integrated concepts, and what he considered to be the best of the techniques from the several Ryu’s or styles of Jujitsu. In 1882 Kito Ryu, Tenshin Ryu, Fushen Ryu, Jikishin Ryu and Yoshin Ryu Jujitsu were incorporated to create a new discipline into what was originally called Kano Ryu Jujitsu.

Jigoro Kano

Kano Ryu Jujitsu / Kodokan Judo

Professor Jigoro Kano 1860–1938, opened the Kodokan dojo in Tokyo, Japan in 1882
"Judo is "the gentle way" because the end result is maximum efficiency with minimum effort. As a sport, rather than simply a combat form, Judo includes a code of sportsmanship, a sense of mutual respect, and a system of ethical and moral development. Judo is both an art and a science. As an art, Judo enables its practitioners to gain self-respect, self-confidence, and self-expression; as a science, it involves a mastery of such basic natural laws as gravity, friction, momentum, weight transmission, and unity of forces.

Risel Kano

President of International Judo Federation 1952- 1965

Kanō Risei, born November 25, 1900 - January 13, 1986) was one of the three sons of Kanō Jigorō, the creator of Judo. Risei Kanō was the second president of the International Judo Federation, from 1952 to 1965. He managed the Kōdōkan from 1946 until 1980.

Ludwig W. Prass

Ki Jujitsu Self Defense

10th Dan Jiu Jitsu,, 6th Dan Kodokan Judo, 6th Dan Karate, 
​​Responsible for the Allied Forces to allow Judo to be taught in Germany again 1946
Responsible for the Allied Forces to allow Jiu Jitsu to be taught in Germany again 1951
Founder Judo sports school in Düsseldorf, Germany1949
Awarded the Japanese title of master instructor by Risei Kano Kodokan Toyoko, 1952
Director All Japanese Karate-Do Conference
Developed Ki-Jitsu, a defense system, that is based on redirecting energy in an efficient way (Maximum Efficiency)
Learn more about Prass' history by visiting the Sportschule

W. Dieter Reitzig 

Ju-Jitsu 360 Complete Defense 2011 Technical Advisor 

6th Dan in United States Ju-Jitsu, USJJF, 6th Dan in Kodokan Judo, USA-TKJ, 6th Dan in 360 Self Defense System,  1st Dan in Taiho Jutsu, USJJF, Sr. Technical Adviser Colorado and Regional USJJF, Senior 2nd Level Instructor – Examiner, Instructor for Judo and Ju-Jitsu Omega Martial Arts, 2000 – 2010.

Head Instructor Dragon Heart Martial Arts LLC,  2011 to 2015 Retired Sensei Dieter began his studies in 1949, under Sensei Ludwig Prass, at the Duesseldorfer Judo Sportschule (Germany). It was Sensei Dieter’s technical guidance and his Jiu Jitsu knowledge in the areas of maximum efficiency and realistic defensive situations that laid the groundwork for the Ju No Kihon text book which is the very foundation of the Jiu Jitsu 360 system. USJJF BIO