huh?

No one?

This isn't your typical McDojo stuff wrapped up in a mysterious, hard to pronounce name, is it?

I'll have a year in in March. I'm 40 and am training three days a week. This really the first MA I have taken besides some basic locks and takedowns while active duty (1993-2003). Everything is designed to break/disloacte a joint or cause other catastrophic damage, there is not sport/competition aspect at all. A good mix of straight line and circular movement, sometimes combined in the same action. You can see where the sublte differences between this and Aikido; In Aikido you block a strike, apply lock and turn into a projected throw. Where in Aiki Jujitsu you Block, apply lock, throw Otoshi or use a reap or sweep to get opponent on the ground and then rotate locked arm and strike exposed elbow to break and continue to finish from there (usually choke or throat strike). Interesting techniques for women to learn as it is a technique over strength matter. There is a woman I train with who I have 100 pounds on and she routinely throws me (Ogoshi and Seio Nage) with ease. There is a great fitness aspect in the ukemi as well...overall have dropped close to 20 pounds and really toned up.

Definately not McDojo stuff covered up by a fancy name. I am currently a Yonkyu (Green) and apparently there are only 6 levels in the system (White, Yellow, Green, 2 Browns then Black). I was trainig close to three months before any aspect of belts/promotion/testing even came up, this impressed me; even more when I made Green I was told to expect at least a year there before the next level. Not really in it for the belts, just fun to learn and a great workout.