The official web site of Shinjido inventor Danny Da Costa

What is Shinjido?

Shinjido literally means Danny’s Way, a label given by one of my students to the variety of techniques that I have developed for martial art. I attempt to find the easiest solution to a problem either in attack or defence. My work is based on sound principles and the techniques serve to demonstrate the principles. I have applied this approach to judo starting from the premise that our sport is fighting within specific rules and limitations.

Imagine that we lived in a closed society and our Glorious Leader suddenly decrees that we would enter international sport competitions including Judo. Suppose that we had never seen Judo and were just provided with a book of rules and given the objective of the sport. No doubt we would come up with some techniques that resembled Judo but doubtless we would discover just as many techniques that did not. Our sport has changed over the years. Some lament the change and feel that we have gone too far down the wrestling route. I am a pragmatist. Let the best man and the best skill win; provided they are within the rules. Please click here for a page of photos from the January 17 2010 Shinjido seminar with Kosei Inoue.