Did Kodokan Judo Ever Incorporate Striking In The Art Of Judo?

 Here is U.S. Army Captain Allan C. Smith the first American graduate of the Kodokan in Japan and instructor to WW1 U.S. Army Infantrymen.

This video link is Pre-WW2 Kodokan Judo and it was heavily dependent upon both atemi waza (striking technique) to set up throws and take downs as well as finishing strikes delivered to downed attackers.

https://youtu.be/vnwb8lSilrI

Judo had striking in Pre-WW2 Kodokan Judo.

In addition, notice ‘before’ there was W.E. Fairbairn teaching his military gutterfighting and police defendu (combatives) in post WWI Shanghai China and during WWII, America had WWI Army Captain, Allen C. Smith, teaching the exact same methods to American Infantrymen going off to the trenches of the first world war.

Captain Allen C. Smith, the grandfather of modern military combatives.

The first American graduate of the Kodokan in Japan, when it was still called Kano Jiujitsu in the west.

The first to publish a book in America teaching Japanese Kano Jiujitsu aka Judo to American readers.

      It's important to note that although Pre-WW2 Kodokan Judo included atemi waza using hands, elbows, knees and feet, there is no striking of any kind allowed in competitive sport IJF Judo or Olympic Judo.

      In fact, the only striking or atemi waza surviving in Kodokan Judo today is preserved in a Kata but is not trained 'live' so many modern Judoka after WW2 had to cross train in kara te or western boxing to cultivate functional, combative, atemi waza. 

        In the 1943 martial art action film, Blood On The Sun, starring actor/judoka/boxer James Cagney there's very good demonstrations of Pre-War Judo atemi waza (strikes) used to attack or to set up throws during the fight scenes choreography.

        Link to the movie, Blood On The Sun, is linked below: 

 https://youtu.be/3mnWgfM1HDI?feature=shared

What's the difference between Aikido & Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu?

 Having studied both Aikido and Daito Ryu, as well as having read everything written by Morihei Ueshiba that I could acquire in my lifetime, it's indisputable to me that Daito Ryu is an effective combative art while Aikido is exactly what O'sensei Morihei Ueshiba claimed Aikido to be, “It's not for fighting but rather for excercise only.”

Morihei Ueshiba came from a background in effective combative arts such as Koryu Jujutsu, Kenjutsu, Yarijutsu, Jojutsu and under Sokaku Takeda he learned Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu.

Later in life he had become a priest in the pacifist Omoto Kyo religious sect of Shinto and renounced violence. So he created aikido as a partner assisted, non-competitive, form of mutual excercise which he used as a vehicle to recruit disciples for his omoto kyo religious cult and to spread the teachings of the omoto kyo religious sect.

Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu, on the other hand, was the secretive combative art of court guards (bailiffs) of a certain samurai clan, during feudal Japan, which Sokaku Takeda inherited as a descendant of that family clan as the last samurai born to that clan.

It lives on today through direct student heir lineages of Sokaku Takeda who passed down the art to their select students and the headquarter school is located in Japan. It's an art of weapon retention and counter-abduction, counter-restraint, that court guards learned and family members of a certain samurai clan learned.

Even today many claim to teach ‘aikijujutsu' but have zero knowledge and zero understanding of the aikiage and aikisage biomechanics. Nor have they ever studied Daito Ryu from which aiki biomechanics originate.

Daito Ryu can not be imitated by observation and this is why so many frauds exist claiming to teach aikijujutsu without having studied/trained Daito Ryu. And this is why many observers think that Daito Ryu is fake simply by observation but never having touched hands with a practitioner or master of Daito Ryu.

Daito Ryu is a scientific Bugei which teaches bujutsu in different forms. Or westerners may think of it in terms of three different arts within the Bugei of Daito Ryu.

1. Jujutsu waza. What happens when we grab the opponent.
2. Aiki waza. What happens when the opponent grabs us: Aiki-age & Aiki-sage.
3. Aiki No Jutsu. Shadow locking science which maintains the lock upon the opponent after we remove our hands from the opponent after we've locked their body. . .this is the 3rd final art of the Daito Ryu Bugei which is only maintained by the Daito Ryu Koshinkai school of the Horikawa lineage.

https://youtu.be/GsDQeyqlQW8?feature=shared

The above video is actually of a master of Daito Ryu Koshinkai Aiki Jujutsu , not aikido, and he's of a lineage of Daito Ryu that decends from Sokaku Takeda's closest disciple Horikawa sensei.

https://youtu.be/JY0iMyDdViohttps://youtu.be/y0fxjI3BDEohttps://youtu.be/Rpts8jclfQkhttps://youtu.be/9ZFs9MAjQ-w

Is it real? 

https://youtu.be/GsDQeyqlQW8?feature=shared

Daito Ryu Playlist Videos For Research: 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2js-kuTTytj4zVF7-ixNRsykfakWfanr&feature=shared

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2js-kuTTytj4zVF7-ixNRsykfakWfanr&feature=shared