Teaching Methods
Lee 'Kagemusha' Hasdell was trained in the arts of Japanese Submission Fighting in Japan from 1996 to 2002 at the Maeda Dojo in Yokohama. The lineage of his training goes from Maeda, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Kohsaka, Hiromitsu Kanehara right through to submission fighting legends like Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Karl Gotch, Billy Robinson and Mas Oyama.
In 1998 Lee formed the RINGS Submission Fighting UK group after Akira Maeda the founder of RINGS Japan came to visit Milton Keynes to watch the legendary Hasdell V Kanehara UK 'Shoot-fighting' match.
Lee was nicknamed the 'Kagemusha' or Shadow Warrior by his fans in Japan, and true to his nickname he keeps many of the training techniques he was taught in the shadows of his own private dojo. He says that he modelled himself on the submission hero Yoshaiki Fujiwara who also started out as a Muaythai and Japanese Kickboxing champion and then studied indepth the arts of Billy Robinson and Karl Gotch submission fighting and became the founder of modern day 'Shootfighting'.
Japanese Submission Fighting is a system of fighting that evolved from the grappling method of 'Catch as Catch Can'. Because Japanese Submission Fighting has always been without a Gi or 'No-Gi' as it is now called. JSF uses techniques like hooking, catching, shooting and figure 4's, it also uses dynamic non-positional speed to secure a finishing hold.
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