by Te-Before-Jitsu | Dec 1, 2025 | Self-Defense
Understanding HAPV: The Real Roots of Karate Self-Protection When you strip away the sport, the conditioning, the belt colors, and the social media techniques, traditional karate — especially Okinawan karate — was built for one thing: Surviving real human violence....
by Te-Before-Jitsu | Oct 9, 2025 | Self-Defense
Te Before Jitsu: Why You Strike Before You Grapple There is a saying in martial arts that goes like this — karate comes before jujitsu in a real self-defense situation. What that simply means is that if you find yourself in a self-defense situation, you need to strike...
by Te-Before-Jitsu | Sep 3, 2025 | Community
A Journey Into True Self Defense If you search for the term “self-defense,” you’ll find definitions like: “The defense of one’s person or interests, especially through the use of physical force, which is permitted in certain cases as an answer to a charge of...