OUR DIRECTOR
CMDR TY “YODA” CUNNINGHAM, MMAS, 10th DAN, US MARSHALS (RET.)
Master of Military Arts & Science, US Army Command & General Staff College
Warrior & Scholar—The blade must cut. ™
Shoot, Move, Communicate, & Medicate—Train the way you survive. ™
Hand & Blade, Stick & Gun—The path to surviving death’s door. ™
Mantracking & Hunting—To the quarry lies the tracker and to the tracker lies the trail. There is always a trail. ™
MARTIAL ARTS
Cmdr. (Ret) Ty Cunningham; Call Sign, Yoda is known to his students as “Inja sensei” literally meaning “hermit teacher” being named for his reclusive mountain and wilderness training methodologies and past teaching accessibility) is a 10th Dan in Alaskan Kempo™ and a 9th Dan in both Modern Battlefield Jujitsu™ (Koishido Tatakai Jujutsu™ or Koishidokai Jujutsu™) and Modern Police Jujitsu™ hailing from Southeast Alaska. He inherited the Alaskan Kempo System from his father founding his Way of Strategy in Nin’i no Buki no Ichi Sento Ryu™ (one combat school of any weapon) and is Co-owner of the Lost Trail Ranch LLC and Director of Operations of Lost Trail Ranch HQ Alaska. Cunningham holds the title of Hanshi for the mastery of his Way of Strategy (or what has become known publicly as Alaskan Kempo Jujitsu System™ or simply, Alaskan Kempo™.
Since the age of 14, Cunningham has taught his atypical and devastating kempo style to the professions of military and police exclusively and only strayed from that teaching policy on special occasions. On these rare occasions of teaching the public, Cunningham found that the average citizen, through experience, had a hard time dealing with the harsh training methods required in developing the character of survival necessity. Cunningham is noted for his “nature’s way kempo;” which requires students to accept the mindset of the “senseless brutality of violence” and therefore the mantra “Train the way you survive™.” Only when the student can embrace hardship in training as a watch cry can they begin to confront the natural fears of battle and conquer them. Thus, his focus on the military and police because they must run to the sounds of the guns to confront the evils of the world. Cunningham has devoted his life to learning, creating, and teaching the application of his practical Way of Strategy techniques to military and law enforcement if they will listen, learn, and apply to “Train the way you survive ™.”
EARLY LIFE
Cunningham was born in 1962, in Southeast Alaska. In 1965, at the age of three, he began studying martial arts under the direction of his father, who was a master of kempo, Goshinjitsu (self-defense), Army combatives as well as a SFC (Sergeant First Class) in the Infantry. The training included hermit-type mountain training in realistic battle-focused survival, practical pliant hand (unarmed) bunkai, weapons (buki) application and synchronization, and makiwara (striking object) practice with rocks, stones, sand, trees. Cunningham was given a gi and obi (uniform and belt) by his mother who made them out of a white bed sheet. He would go with his father, sit by the wall of the dojo (training place) in seiza (sitting on your feet), and watch as the two masters engaged in realistic rensokute (continuous hand) & buki (weapons) techniques with chikara (power) and atemi (attacking vital areas), hearing the two masters bunkai (technique analysis) and oyo (movement analysis).
During the era of the Vietnam War, Cunningham learned kempo under the guidance of these two masters—his father, mentioned previously, and Stuart Sensei. They were teaching local residents of Juneau the basics in the martial art of the natural fist law and self-defense; the student following was mostly police and military and they trained at the local Alaska Army National Guard Armory.
At the age of 9, Cunningham went to be tested by Stuart Sensei—upon the recommendation of his father. Upon arrival, he discovered that Stuart Sensei tested him differently than his own students. The formality was the same, but the expectations were based on the self-defense style that he was taught by his father. He wondered why he was never allowed to train publicly at Stuart Sensei’s dojo. He spent much time watching the two masters engage in brutal battles which often came to the shedding of blood in the purification process. Application in hyomen hakai (destroying the surface of the body was the norm).
PROFESSIONAL AND INSTRUCTING CAREER
In 1976, at age of 14, he was noticed by officers of the Juneau Police Department, soldiers of the Alaska Army National Guard, and sailors of the U.S. Coast Guard and was soon teaching his Way of Strategy to private students under his father’s direction; he did this for 5 years. He tested his martial arts skills daily on seasoned warriors. It was in this era that Alaskan Kempo techniques were refined. He has complemented his martial arts training with studies in religion, philosophy, military history, and the scientific method, and other non-combative aspects of the arts.
Cunningham put his martial skill on hold for two years to follow his religious convictions by serving a mission to Washington D.C. where he expanded his Kamido (ways of God) knowledge to help others learn of Jesus Christ. While in Washington D.C., he met many government officials, military personnel, and federal law enforcement officers and vowed that he would one day serve in this capacity to give back to the people of the United States for the freedoms which he enjoyed.
Cunningham opened his first private kempo jujitsu dojo at the age of 21 upon joining the U.S. Army. From 1984–1988, while on active duty, he was an instructor for US Army soldiers in Modern Battlefield Jujitsu™ (Army combatives) as time permitted. Between 1988 and 1996, while in the Alaska Army National Guard he continued his instruction to soldiers. In 1991, Cunningham was hired by the U.S. Marshals in the District of Alaska, and from 1992 to 2002, he taught Modern Police Jujitsu™ at the District of Alaska US Marshals Police Dojo continuing his Way of Strategy training to these specialty warriors in officer street survival & defensive tactics.
From 1991 until his retirement from the U.S. Marshals in 2012, Cunningham served in duty stations in the States of Alaska, Wyoming, and Missouri. As the unit commander for both the District of Alaska and Wyoming U.S. Marshals tracking units, he assisted federal, state, and local law enforcement to resolve hundreds of complex investigative cases. Some of the cases include murder, burglary, robbery, missing and lost persons, evidence recovery, and crime scene, cause of death, and animal kill site reconstruction, natural resource seizures, fugitive apprehension, and perimeter breach, access, and control. He cultivated investigative confidential sources, interview numerous suspects in criminal cases, produce protective and fugitive investigation cases for prosecution to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and he held a top-secret clearance. While assigned as the supervisor of the Wyoming Fugitive Task Force, the task force investigated and cleared approximately 300 warrants within the first year of receiving operational status.
Cunningham was detail leader/PSO, shift supervisor, and/or detail member in over 65 protective missions of the following VIP’s: 5 U.S. Supreme Court Justices; over 300 U.S. Circuit, District, Bankruptcy, and Magistrate Judges; also, U.S. attorneys; federal protected witnesses; federal sequestered juries; and foreign VIPs, such as the Cuban national Elian Gonzales. He has also protected thousands of federal criminal defendants.
Cunningham was requested by hundreds of law enforcement agencies from federal, state, county, municipal, and tribal governments to teach scout tracking (crime scene, forensic, search, tactical, combat, reconnaissance) and his Modern Police Jujitsu™ (defensive tactics, officer survival, third party defense, close protection,). He has written over 50 professional manuals, magazine articles, and journal and newsletter articles on scout tracking, officer survival, and close protection. He has been featured in approximately 15 international, national, and state radio, magazine, book, and newsletters for his contributions and work as a law enforcement certified tracker and friend of the federal court in self-defense and defensive tactics.
Cunningham is a Forensic Criminologist (focus on human combative behavior), Research Scientist, and Close Combat Master. He possesses expertise with all weapons (buki) systems: armed (tanto-knife, shikibo-baton, kenju-handgun, kijusoushasuru-submachine gun, jidoshoju-carbine) and unarmed (atemi-attacking vital areas, kansetsu-joint locking, gatame/osae-ground/holding, nage-throwing/takedowns, shime-neck restraint holding). He is also a school-trained U.S. Army Light Sniper, Certified Police Instructor, and Certified Master Scout Tracker.
In 2010, Cunningham was the U.S. Marshals Service national selectee to attend the prestigious U.S. Army Command and General Staff College where he graduated with honors receiving his Master of Military Art and Science (MMAS) degree and was one of the fifteen distinguished graduates for his scientific research thesis on Forensic Spoorology™- Ashiato Otadoru Kagaku. He currently teaches his Way of Strategy, known as Nin’i no Buki no Ichi Sento Ryu™, as he travels teaching tracking, survival, and defense courses for several professional training associations.
Cunningham is married to Sheli, and they are parents of 9 children.
PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
In 1992, Cunningham was inducted into the Karate International Who’s Who in Martial Arts Elite Black Belts. In 1993-94, he was inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame. In 1994, he was named Grandmaster, 9th dan soke (founder) of the art of Koishido Tatakai Jujutsu™ (combat jujitsu) and Modern Police Jujitsu™ by the United States Marshals Service District of Alaska. In 2009, he was granted membership as 9th dan Hanshi in Modern Police Jujitsu™ within the All-Japan Ju-jitsu International Federation. In 2011, he was invited to membership in the International League of Combat Jiu-jitsu, recognizing his 9th dan in his style of Modern Battlefield Jujitsu™ and awarded the 7th dan in Special Combat Self-Defense Systems (Anti-Terror Style). In 2013, he joined the World Street Combat Systems Organization. In 2015, he submitted a 10th degree black belt thesis to a panel of American Kenpo Grand Masters and the thesis was approved for promotion in 2016. In 2018, he was inducted into the Kenpo Karate Hall of Fame as well as his promotion to 10th Dan based on his extensive experience in military combatives and law enforcement tactics highlighted in his over 400-page 10th Dan thesis. In 2022, as a life member since 2013, he was asked to serve as the World Street Combat Systems Organization (WSCSO) Country Director Alaska & International Advisor in Military Combat / Law Enforcement Tactics receiving the Grand Master 10th Dan recognition in Alaskan Kempo™.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal & Tactical Commander (Ret.); Co-Owner, Lost Trail Ranch LLC, Director of Operations, Lost Trail Ranch (LTR)-HQ Alaska, and the LTR-HQ Scout Tracking Operations School™; Co-founder and Member, International Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT); Tracking Historian, Archive and Library of Tracking Research (ALTR); Charter Member, The Frederick Russell Burnham Historical Society of Tucson.
Ty is a recognized animal/human forensic criminologist, a former supervisory criminal investigator, protective intelligence investigator, and one of the world's foremost experts in the field of animal and human tracking forensics and animal and human behavioral psychology in footfall evidence. As a specialist in animal and human behaviors and their social relationships within and without a group. Thus, any biological entity and its relationships to humans. Our motto, "Helping nature with human problems--step by step™" stems from his work within the federal government. He, therefore, researches animal behavior conspecifics, and heterospecifics with human behavior to isolate criminal culpability in enforcement. He created and pioneered the science of Spoorology™ (track and trackway forensics).
As a retired Supervisory Deputy and Tactical Commander from the U.S. Marshals Service, Cunningham, has over 40 years of combined law enforcement and military experience. While a Marshal, he spent over twenty-one years training military and police in close combat strategy, tactics, and all-weapon synchronization; four years as commander of the Alaska U.S. Marshals Tactical Tracking Unit (TTU), four years as patrol captain of the Wyoming U.S. Marshals Mounted Tracking Unit (MTU), and three years as an entry operator with the Anchorage Regional FBI S.W.A.T. team; he has used all of the strategies, tactics, and techniques taught by ALASKAN KEMPO JUJITSU SYSTEM in deadly encounters.
From 1984 to 2006, he served in the U.S. Army Active, Reserve, or National Guard serving the country. Some of the most notable units of service are The 82nd Airborne Division (North Carolina), Charlie Airborne (Alaska), and the Long-Range Surveillance Detachment (Alaska). He is truly a mountain man in the soldiery sense and has served as a tactical operator within his professions.
In 1994, he distinguished himself as a scout by receiving the traditional honors as a 9th Level in battlefield and police jujitsu and in founding his style of extreme close combat contact (EC-3) survival based on his research, which emphasizes battle strategy, operational tactics, and all-weapon synchronization as the central theme of all ancient, primitive, and native personal and group warfare, culture formation and preservation, and legend codification with realistic modern applications for the current operating environment.
In 1995, he joined the FBI Anchorage Regional SWAT team where he served as a tactical operator and tracked for the team in rural operations until 1998 as the first non-FBI agent to serve in this capacity in United States history. From 1998 to 2002, he developed and served as commander of the Special Warrant Detail-Tactical Tracking Unit (SWD-TTU) for the U.S. Marshals District of Alaska and from 2003 to 2006 he developed and served as commander of the Special Warrant Detail-Mounted Tracking Unit (SWD-MTU) for the U.S. Marshals District of Wyoming. Both units were unofficially called, Mountain Hawk Scouts.
He is the co-founder of the Int’l Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT), founded, developed, teaches, and serves as director and chief of scouts of the LTR HQ Scout Tracking Operations School™. He built the Modern Scout Tracking System™ for LTR HQ and the LTR HQ Brand with his wife Sheli, and manages Government Tracker certification.
He has taught his scientific research and exploration studies in scout tracking, wilderness survival, and close combat applications to the U.S. Army Special Forces, U.S. Army Rangers, U.S. Army Airborne, U.S. Army Infantry, U.S. Marine Force Recon, U.S. Air Force Security Forces, Army & Air National Guard, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, and many state, tribal, municipal departments across the country, and the list goes on. He has also taught search & rescue groups, animal researchers, bow and rifle hunters, as well as survival/outdoor schools and groups.
He was the associate editor and author of the Master Tracker Column for Primitive Archer Magazine, authored the Wilderness Way Tracking Tip series in Wilderness Way Magazine, and the ISPT Founder’s Track Trap column for the Track & Sign newsletter. He is the Co-author of Learn to Track Alaska’s Wildlife: Activity Coloring Book published by Broken Heart Books of Eagle River, Alaska.
He has been the tracking technical advisor on over a dozen fiction novels: Pray for Justice & Hide and Seek published by Publication Consultants of Anchorage, Alaska and Books in Motion of Spokane, Washington, Hard Road to Heaven and The Hell Riders published by Pinnacle Books of New York City, New York, and the new international thriller books by Marc Cameron, National Security, Act of Terror, State of Emergency, and Time of Attack, to name a few. He has also been the tracking technical advisor for Alaska Outdoor Magazine’s Radio Show, KBYR 700, Ty’s Tuesday Tracking Tip.
He has been recognized for his scout tracking research methodologies by many national & international organizations and publications to include most notably the National Native American Law Enforcement Officers Association newsletter, Royal Canadian Mounted Police publication, “Gazette” published titled Modern-Day Scouts, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service newsletter.
He has created many spoorological advancements to the art and science of following a quarry (man and animal); notably, Pre-Trailing Checklist, Initial Trail Assessment, Trail Confirmation Standard, Post-Trailing Checklist, Target Quarry Reference, Mechanical Stride Zero, Trails Leading Edge, Zone of Entry/Exit, Foot Measurement Analysis, Foot Impression Reference Matrix, Impact Point Gradient, Terminal Point Gradient, Ground Contact Points, Apex Stride Step Estimate, Variable Trail Patterns, Ground Hardness Type, Track Erosion Computation, Quadrant Reference Analysis, Register Deviation Analysis, Slope Topography Sheet, Tracker Sketch Sheet, Tracker Observation Log, Minimum Track Report, and the Tracker’s Triangle.
He has been cast as the team leader for the tracking team in the Red Brick Entertainment TV show, “The Chase: Trackdown” which aired on Court TV, and as an on-camera professional tracking consultant and trackway behavior scientist in the Travel Channels Anchorage Episode of "Hidden City." He is always prepared to set out on his next expedition to follow the spoor of animals and human professionally anytime he is called by a client.
As well as being a Certified Master Scout Tracker (CMST) and holding a terminal Master of Military Art and Science degree from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Cunningham is a Federal and state-certified expert in self-defense, officer survival, defensive tactics, man and animal tracking, and footprint evidence. He is considered a subject matter expert in his field.
RESEARCH/TEACHING/EXPERT WITNESS/SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE CONCENTRATIONS
Cuningham’s main research interest is the forensic criminology modalities of animal/human combative applications and behavior or animal/human instinct in violent conflict as well as man and animal tracking (spoorology), therefore, dynamic and static footfall factors concerning primitive tracking as to human violent conflict applications hetero-specifically, the study of human and animal tracks/trackways, and their relationship to combative applications and behavior. He attempts to generate research questions from these track impressions focusing on how they might provide insights on human and animal behavior, generally, and on animal/human combative applications and behavior between groups, specifically in relationship to macro and micro criminology (criminal culpability). Some of these questions include: (1) how does an animal/human reflect its potential combative behavior versus actual combative behaviors shown by their impressions at any crime scene substrate? Or (2) how do foot impressions indicate combative behaviors similar or different from those we might observe in visually recognizable combative behavior both conspecifics and heterospecifics?
Cunningham studies modern combative behavioral attributes to include performance and comportment significant to mindset/body-set applications and impressions, specifically; and, where necessary, trace impressions, generally of animals and humans. He does this using a comparative approach that looks at "how" impressions are made and "why," especially, concerning combative applications and behavior in violent conflict, crime scene reconstruction, and spoorology/forensic footfall analysis. Cunningham looks at how these impressions deteriorate over time, and by what processes, then I develop hypotheses on how well they show combative behavioral interactions of animal/human organisms in context with their environments and the circumstances of predatory and affective combative applications and behavior in both animals and humans.
APPLIED RESEARCH: FORENSIC TESTIMONY & EXPERTISE
Qualified as a protective intelligence investigator, criminal investigator, forensic criminologist, with expertise in animal and human combative applications and behavior, animal and human instinct in violent conflict, officer survival and safety, personal protection and self-defense, arrest control, weapon employment, fighting system analysis, and combative performance; also congruent applications in animal and human footfall behavior with collateral expertise in footfall/footprint impression evidence, footfall impression behavioral profiling, animal/human tracking, and bush, animal, and urban crime scene reconstruction/examination and forensic analysis and have testified as an expert witness in federal and state court jurisdictions.
APPLIED RESEARCH: ANIMAL & HUMAN COMBATIVE APPLICATIONS AND BEHAVIOR-TECHNICAL & FORENSIC ADVANCEMENTS/SELF-DEFENSE/OFFICER SURVIVAL/ARREST CONTROL/WEAPON EMPLOYMENT
FORENSIC HOPLOLOGY DIAGNOSTICS
Cunningham spent most of his US Army and U.S. Marshals careers researching & teaching based on this platform of what is truly essential in a study of combative behavior between a soldier/police officer and a enemy/subject/bandit/fugitive/prisoner, etc. He has assisted the US Federal District Court as an Amicus Curiae “Friend of the Court” as a US Marshal or as an expert witness.
Phenomenological/Experiential/Behavioral Outline of an Officer/Subject Combative Course-Of-Action
DANGER THREAT TRIAD
Real/Actual/Immediate Danger/Threat
Ego-Danger/Threat (challenge to self-image/self-esteem)
Symbolic Danger/Threat (phobic reactions, etc.)
FIRST PERCEPTION OF DANGER/THREAT via 5 Senses
(Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch)
PERCEPTIONS PROCESSED BY
Three brain-bound traits (intra-cranial traits which together comprise the executive-functioning of the self-system):
(“TS OF THE MAT”)
“EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING” (Strategy-conceptualizing/framing the problem) (Strategic Design)
EFR-Environmental Focus Resonance (Mental States)-Unaware, general, specific, imminent, line of attack, object resources, terrain, time, dominance awareness
POC-Positions of conflict-Neutral, advantage, disadvantage, will, dominance
ACP-Active Control Processing-Decision Making, Tactical Evaluation, Threat Assessment
CP-Control Perception-Training, Experience, Fact Situation (Totality of Circumstance)
SC-Strategic Concepts-Initiative, Depth, Agility, Synchronization
“IMPLEMENTATION” (Tactics-Concrete Scheme for Executing Obj. Progress W/I Current Strategy) (Tactical Planning)
AA-Action Analytics-Perceive, Analyze, Evaluate, Formulate, Initiate
DLA-Demarcation Lines of Advance-Forward Edge, Pressure Edge, Release Edge
TA-Targeting Acquisition-Of focus, natural lines of drift, of circumstance, positions of attack, and lines of attack
AD IOS-interim of succession-response, follow through, submission/posture/fight/flight
CR-Conflict Resolution-Size, Balance, Comprehensiveness
CV-Conflict vibrancy:
CV/P-Power-maneuver, firepower, protection, leadership
CV/I-Imperatives-unity of effort, strengths against weakness, effort designation and sustainment, fast-hard-rapidly, terrain and weather, force protection
CV/TAW-Terrain and weather-Analysis (key terrain, decisive terrain, avenues of approach, defensible-static/dynamic), using terrain (cover, concealment, movement, obstacle, observation, and fire), reinforcement, types of terrain (natural, man-made-built up, structure)
“PERFORMANCE & OUTCOME”(Tactical Applications-Physical Resonance and Quality Assurance
DRM-Disturbance Resolution Model- Approach Considerations, Intervention Options, Follow through Considerations (Stabilization/application of restraints, Monitoring/Debriefing, search procedures, escort, transport, turn over/removal of restraints)
Strategic Standards for Human Combative Applications and Behavior:
TSCC-Training Synergy Combat Conditioning-Physical Ideal, Mental Purging, Physical Renewal, Mental/physical Interface, Spiritual rooting, Neural Drive
RPM-Relative Positioning Model- 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3
MPA-Maneuver/Position/Alignment-Objective, maneuver, angles of approach, directional angles/off target-linear, rotational, target, weapon, contour/fit/tracking, alignment of mass, marriage of gravity/settling/torque, sanctuary
IR Intent/Combative Intent-Implied, Real
UFT-Use of force/time-Controlled, creation, utilization, compression of time, escalation of force, check/jam/stall
RLT-Ranges of Linear Time-extended, long, medium, close (Approach, Entry, Contact)
3D Harm-defend, distract, disturb, harm
ESC-Effect/set/counters-cause, set-up, neutralize
ZOC-Zones of Cancellation-Outer edge of efficiency, quadrant and dimensional application, height, width, depth, obscurity
PTT-Pain Threshold Tolerance- Attitude: Pain referencing, mental state; Positions of advantage
TC-Technique Configuration-posture, balance, relaxation, speed, accuracy of targeting, angles of access, body alignment, back-up mass, economy of force, timing, telegraphing, coordination, focus, torque, body momentum, gravitational marriage, selection of tools, penetration, transition, distance, Cover
DAE-Defense application enhancement-philosophy, environment, range, position, maneuver, targeting, weapon selection, checks, covering, control
SOR-Subject Oppositional Resistance-Yes (No resistance), maybe (Undecided, passive resistance), no (Active Resistance)
PAM-Permittable Action Model- Disengage/deescalate; Engage/Escalate (Based on OSD)
OSD-Officer-Subject Dynamic-Subject Factorization: Gender, Fitness, Age, Size, Skill, Multiples Pro, Multiples Con; Extraordinary Conditions: weapon proximity, foreknowledge, injury/exhaustion, limited position (ground), disability, imminence of danger, environment
OSAS-Officer Survival Arrest Sequencing- Control, Restrain, Search, Transport
SOI-Spheres of Influence-Obscure, Actual, Neutral, Projected, Unified (Officer Presence)
CPE/E-Conical Path of Entry & Exit-Impact point gradient, Impact point, terminal point, terminal point gradient, Apex
POI-Paths of Influence-Ground, Aerial, Simplicity, Infinity
EOF-Economy of Force-Invisible action, Motion Economy, Sustained Effect
CA-Contact Applications-Centralization, initiation, acceleration, pressurization, penetration, manipulation, immobilization, unification
TH-Target hardening-zones of protection, actionable defense protocol, reactable action, reflex imperative
ATP-Anatomical Targeting Points-100
APPLIED RESEARCH: HUMAN COMBATIVE APPLICATIONS AND BEHAVIOR-TECHNICAL & FORENSIC ADVANCEMENTS/SELF-DEFENSE/OFFICER SURVIVAL/ARREST CONTROL/WEAPON EMPLOYMENT
Nin’i no Buki no Ichi Sento Ryu – One Combat School of Any Weapon (White Eagle)
Hara – “Belly,” or the body’s center place of intuitive response as concentration and integration
Ki – “Vital Energy” or centralized, extended energy.
Haragei – “The Belly Art,” referring to mental concentration through the body or the theory and practice of both hara and ki as one
Koishido – The old stone way
Uke – The attacker or the opponent who gives themselves so the defender (Tori) can practice the Fist Law 拳法 (Kempo)
Sen No Sen – Application before your opponent attacks
Tai No Sen – Application at the same time your opponent attacks
Tai Tai No Sen – Application by blending with the attack of your opponent
Renzokubuki – Continuous Weapon
Kiai – Unification of energy
Musha Shugyo – Warrior pilgrimage
Bunkai (BOIP Analysis) and Oyo (BMA Analysis)
BUJUTSU (Military Arts)
Kamijutsu (art of the ways of Deity-spiritual training)
Garyujutsu (art of one’s own way, the self-taught method)
Heihojutsu (art of combat strategy)
Chiku jo gunryaku heihojutsu (art of military tactics & fortress design & penetration)
Seishin Teki Kyoyojutsu (art of personal clarity)
Mesojutsu (art of meditation)
Mikkyojutsu (art of knowledge gathering)
In-Yo jutsu (art of zen principles)
Yugeijutsu (art of cultural assimilation)
Kyomonjutsu (art of practical education)
Chimonjutsu (art of studying the earth)
Tsuiseki Suru Mono (The thing who tracks, Art of human and animal tracking)
Sacchijutsu (art of studying terrain analysis during battle)
Keirakujutsu (art of planning)
Kuraijutsu (art of conforming to enemy actions)
Saiminjutsu (art of psychological warfare)
Kujiinjutsu (art of energy channeling)
Satsujinjutsu(art of studying man’s psychology and how it effects battle)
Onmyojutsu (art of predicting the outcome of battles)
Senjojutsu (art of troop deployment)
Chikujojutsu (art of fortifications)
Suijohohokojutsu (art of crossing water)
Teisatsujutsu (art of reconnaissance)
Kiokuryokujutsu (art of memorization)
Inkanjutsu (art of intelligence from locals)
Shikomujutsu (art of infiltration)
Youjangjutsu (art of the hidden using camouflage)
Tenmonjutsu (art of meteorology)
Tembunjutsu (art of weather forecasting)
Sattenjinjutsu (art of studying weather and how it effects battle)
Seizonjutsu (art of survival)
Wanajutsu (art of trapping)
Nukejutsu (art of escape)
Gotonpojutsu (Use of natural element for escape)
Intonjutsu (art of disappearance)
Noborijutsu (art of climbing)
Kibasenjutsu (art of mounted combat)
Yojimbojutsu (art of the bodyguard)
Keisatsujutsu (art of the police)
Bajutsu (art of the horse)
BUKIJUTSU (Weapon Art)
Hojutsu Art of gunnery (shooting all variety of firearms)
Teppojutsu Firearms (knowing each firearm intimately as well as quick drawing)
Jukenjutsu Art of the rifle and bayonet (part of soldiering)
Zusa Ken-po (Fighting with sword)
Kenjutsu – sword fencing
Iaijutsu Art of Quick Drawing the Sword
Battojutsu Art of Drawing the Sword
Kogusokujutsu Art of the Short Sword (There are many of what would be considered these in the form of machete or long knives, etc.)
Tantojutsu Art of the Knife (Today, my Alaskan knife fighting (AKF) system is one in each hand)
Kakushibukijutsu Art of hidden weapons (This is the use of all improvised tools from your environment. I mean anything around you, wherever you are.)
Kyujutsu Art of the bow & arrow (Great skill for many reasons, but not good at close combat range)
Bojutsu Art of the staff
Rokushakubo Six Foot Staff (Only practical as a walking stick in mountains)
Jojutsu Four-foot Staff (This is a great tool, but for the sake of carrying they are only good when carried in vehicles for quick access and perhaps a little shorter)
Hanbojutsu Art of the Combat Cane (The cane or crook is one of the premier tools in existence today because of its practical disguise as a medical device.)
Hanangeijutsu Art of the short stick (The stick can be single or one in each hand.)
Hojojutsu Art of tying up
Nawanagejutsu Art of rope
Zusakijutsu Art of gear & tools (You should accumulate good gear)
TAIJUTSU (Body Art)
Understanding the use of your body’s natural tools must be explored and mastered because they are always with you no matter what. But remember that all battle at death’s door must be engaged with man-made tools (weapons) first.
Zusa Taijutsu (Close Combat, Jujitsu, Kempo)
Taihenjutsu (Body movement, breakfalls, leaping) art of moving silently, falling, and using sutemi
Junan Taiso – Conditioning Exercises
Ukemijutsu – Breaking falls
Tobijutsu – leaps
Taisabakijutsu – Body angling
Shinobiirijutsu – Silent movement
Kamaejutsu – Posturing
Ichimonji no kamae – Defensive posture
Jumonji no kamae – Offensive posture
Shizen no kamae – Natural posture
Hira no kamae – Receiving posture
Dakentaijutsu (Striking and Kicking) art of delivering atemi blows
Koppojutsu – Bone smashing
Koshijutsu – Organ and muscle attacking
Jutaijutsu (Grappling and Choking) art of hand-to-hand combat/Combatives
Nagejutsu – Tossing or throwing
Shimejutsu – Choking or Strangulations
Toritejutsu – Close in reversals & locks
Kijutsu (art of the breath or energy)
Kiaijutsu (art of focused breath or energy)
Harajutsu (art of the belly)
Jukuatsujutsu (art of natural medicine and resuscitation)
Karumijutsu (art of lightening the body)
Hofukujutsu (art of crawling)
Kagearukijutsu (art of silent walking)
Hichojutsu (art of leaping)
Taihojutsu (art of arrest and control) (Part of police and modern military)
Hayagakejutsu (art of running)
APPLIED RESEARCH: SPOOROLOGY/ANIMAL & HUMAN TRACKING-TECHNICAL & FORENSIC ADVANCEMENTS
Behavior, Gait, Spoor (BGS) Paradigm
Observation, Classification, Interpretation of Spoor Evidence (OCISE) Algorithm
Observational Spoor Recognition
Spoor Platting
Spoor-Chain Signature
Classification of Spoor
Foot Measurement Analysis
Quadrant Reference Analysis
Foot Mapping Analysis
Ground Contact Points
Gait Platting
Gait-Footfall Sequencing
Gait Biometric Identification
Behavior Platting
Aerial Travel Points
Cone of Entry-Cone of Exit
Pre-Trailing Checklist
Initial Trail Assessment
Trail Confirmation Standard
Post-Trailing Checklist
Target Quarry Reference
Mechanical Stride Zero
Tracker’s Triangle
Trails Leading Edge
Human Behavior Identification
Deliberate Trailing Method
Dynamic Trailing Method
Foot Impression Reference Matrix
Foot Roll Analysis (Impact Point Gradient, Impact Point, Flex Point, Pivot Point, Terminal Point, Terminal Point Gradient)
Apex Stride Step Estimate
Variable Track Patterns
Ground Hardness Type
Ground Surface Type
Track Erosion Computation
Register Deviation Analysis
Minimum Track Report
Slope Topography Analysis
Tracker Sketch Analysis
Uniform Scale Format
Eight Rules of Forensic Tracking
Tracking Crime Scene Format
Spoor Deterioration Risk Factors
Spoor Models of Interpretation & Projection
Seven Tracking Forensic Skills Steps
Tracking Communication Control Alpha-Numerics
Blood Spoor Forensics
Forensic Spoor Description
Crime Scene Tracking Kit
Trailing Profile Checklist-Human Tracking Blueprint
Trailing Profile Checklist-Animal Tracking Blueprint
Forensic Trailing Outline
Forensic Tracker Certification
Forensic Spoor Card
Quarry Spoor Formula
Cmdr Ty "Yoda" Cunningham, US Marshals Service (ret.) can be contacted below.
