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The history of Kauchi Atemi Jitsu dating back over 600 years, during the 1300s and 1400s, was rarely practiced in Japan due to the explosive and sophisticated striking and crushing bone techniques. The name was given the system of combat physical and combative technique characterize building diversity of incredible trap hands and locking joints and ripping tissues and nerves. Translating "te" the way of the non-resistance and the gentle art and the "ju" meaning the opposite of "kogochi" meaning hands on resistance and breaking the force. Never resistant but giving way to use the opponent's technique. The ancient history and time of peace of the warrior, which was called the way of the Samurai and the warrior of Feudal Japan. As you know martial arts meaning military. To train daily and different ways of military exercises, such as horsemanship, swordsmanship, and bojitsu, and the art of armed combat and unarmed combat known as jujitsu. Because of its fluidity and its ability to adapt to any other style and any other technique, meaning Tekki-Nuichi-Ryu. Which means establishing everything goes within the art of combative striking. During the time of feudal, the peasants used to work in the fields--meaning farmer or the mountain bushi men. They were prone to develop their own strategic methods to make their work more efficient and their ways more effective without using tools of any sort. Using a jaji, which is today called jaji-jitsu--a rope dangled in a piece of steel in a bamboo stick. See this was the way to stretch and take down the bamboo without getting a snake bite. To a rapid motion of a circular twine or a circle theory, it was amazing what you could accomplish by understanding inside and outside circles. As they pulled and stretched the bamboo, they developed a direct hit at the sternum of the base of the bamboo, which made the bamboo crack right in half with their hands. These were indigenous ways during that time and period. But later becoming the effective form and style of fighting. Many forms of martial arts began to transluminate as jujitsu becoming popular and the hand becoming Atemi. Through constant of developing the hands, with a bamboo strapped with rope, sandbags, gravel, and glass, and hot gravel, knees and elbows, and fingers, and the side of the "shutokai" hand, and the palm of the hand, and tight grip--which today is known as grappling. When you did not have no clothes, the essential tool was to lock the elbows and wrists and tweeta hand--this was known as Atemi waza. Today it is called Sambojitsu. Not only with the feet where you could put a blade between your big toe and middle toes; and you can create a whippling, ripping action and cutting the person's achilles or leg off. His kicks were so effective that it was not just kicks. The kicks would entrap the legs of the other person and create excruciating pain and bone breaking technique with his legs. The effective style of kicking was real short--not high kicking. A person would practice this daily and go into the bamboo trees and attach them between the middle of their legs and create a twining device with their legs. So that when you grasp a person in a tight seal movement or Atemi--today known as a ripping circular move--ripping the legs of a person in one thrust, you will break his joints, or his head, or wherever you grab him you create excruciating pain or break the legs or the arm or wherever you would entrap--called trap legs Atemi and trap hands. The most sophisticated of the schools of Atemi was striking device which could stop the heart with a fatal blow, or collapse his lungs with a mere offense of a slap or mere offense of touching as well, or entrap his hand and his wrist that would cause paralyzation with a mere offense of a twist or a lock. And another sophisticated school called Juteki Atemi Waza, which dealt with sophisticated throwing techniques and locking and bone breaking in midair. Tenjinshi-Kyujitsu. The Art of Striking consists of 100,000 ways of striking. Each blow more fatal than the other one. Each move represents not just striking. It represents the theory of controlling the opponent in every direction. The famous monasteries and monks arriving and teaching Buddhism. Learning the Budo or the do, would be the way to enlightenment. To understand the principle of oneself became the way of the Bushi warrior.. The monks brought the art, which is today known as Tai Chi or Chi Kung, which introduced Dim-mak. By improving rhythmic movements and breathing, circulatory of the human physiology and body autonomy, they were able to cultivate transistic energy called Chi Kung or Chi, or in Japanese Ki. Water training was implemented to develop more lower body and higher body extremity to be able to cultivate the chi, these moves must be synched with the mind. As the Japanese began to learn more about the Yin and the Yang; meaning hard and soft, learning that when you get soft you are able to cultivate more of your transistic energy with your locks and throws with greater of ease. You learn body movements, body of the rock and learning not to be uprooted off your stance. This fell upon the Samurai masters and they began to cultivate with the fluidity moves with their katana or sword, Koguchi Sageo Katana. In absence of their sword or weapon, they move Atemi-Waza had to be fluid in motion in order for its effectiveness to be more powerful. Not just learning how to dance, but learning how to facilitate in an upward and downward motion and circular motion as well. Even with the strike of the sword, you go to the left and right and down and up and the beauty of it in a circular parry motion. Not only today called the escrima stick, the cobra or the baton used like a rapid pistol in a rapid motion of an Atemi strike. The founding of Karate, empty-hand, do, and many arts that came on hundreds of years later. Atemi was lost. Since Atemi was valued as a treasure of the masters, and a handful of katakanas, and scrolls, and were destroyed during 1941 and 1945--in that time period during the Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Most of the archives and lessons and books were destroyed. Only a handful of masters knew the completion of Atemi. Masters like Morehei Ueshiba, Gogen Yamaguchi, Gichin Funakoshi, Sokaku Takeda, Tetsui Tanaka, and Jigoro Kano, also incorporated Atemi into their systems; but they were limited to the art of striking. In the early 30s and 40s to the 70s and to the 90s, the late Grandmaster Yamamoto knew the complete art of Atemi. Today the last Non-Japanese, and the last heir to know the deadly art and the whole complete system and the true meaning behind Atemi and the secrets and scrolls behind the art is American born Grandmaster Irving Soto holding the rank of 10th Degree Black Belt with 12th dan which means Cover Red Belt, and the founder of Koguchi Atemi Jitsu Cobra Te and is the only man alive who knows the complete art of Atemi-Jitsu for the new millennium years to come.

Soke Grandmaster Irving Soto, 10^th Degree Black Belt and Red Belt, who is the founder of the present system of Koguchi Atemi Cobra Jitsu.