Miyama Ryu
Close Quarter Combat Ju-Jutsu - Iraq
This page is dedicated to the U.S. Soldiers that train and fight in Iraq utilizing the concepts of Miyama Ryu Ju-Jutsu everyday.  These are the modern day Samurai.  The weapons have changed, but the concepts are the same and the Warrior Ethos lives!
Ju-Jutsu was born in battle and war and it continues today, concepts being tested and proven daily in close quarter combat under life and death circumstances!













UPDATED 18 August 2007
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Iraq Miyama Ryu Ju-Jutsu Instructor
Ju-Jutsu was born and refined thru war.
CPT Daniel M. Wagner (Kaiden-Sensei)
TIKRIT, IRAQ (FOB SPEICHER)
& NOW ON FT. HUACHUCA, AZ
danimalmw301@yahoo.com
One of the most difficult aspects to martial arts training is making the training as real as possible.  In addition, the concepts being practiced must also be as useful and applicable to the user as possible.  Miyama Ryu enables the practicioner to use the concepts learned in each class RIGHT NOW!
A Common comment that soldiers say to me when they see my class is, "I have a gun!  Why do I need Ju-Jutsu?  I'll just shoot them."  Then I see those same soldiers guarding local national workers or on guard duty getting complacent at times and could easily get overcome and not even be able to get a magazine out of their holder and loaded in their weapon.  You are not ALWAYS going to be locked and loaded, ready.  As a matter of fact, to use an analogy, the lion does not go after the strong gazelle; he selects, tests, and then attacks the week or unprepared.  We see this everyday here in Iraq on the battlefield and it is how lives are lost.
Dealing with REAL weapons from day one in class is very important  You must train as close to the way you will fight (as much as possible), keeping in mind you have to get up and go to work the next day.

Miyama Ryu Combat Ju-Jutsu is NOT magic, and combat is NOT like the movies!  If you are dealing with a knife count on seeing your own blood.  If you are dealing with a guy with a club count on getting thumped.  If you find yourself with a gun to your head, count on getting grazed, but with the concepts in Miyama Ryu, don't count on being dead!
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