Pa Sao is the maternal family name, middle given name and chosen name by which to be caled of my primary Jujitsu Instructor, James Pa Sao Carson. Of mixed heritage, he learned his Chinese mother's family's Chuan fa system, Sup Pa Sao Chuan from an early age, but embraced the Japanese heritage of his half Euro-Japanese father in his early teens.

 

This was a turning point which forever altered the course of his life and would lead him to train in the ancient Samurai art of Jujitsu. In time, he along with his Jujitsu instructor, Asao Yoshida Sensei, determined that the move to water down the ancient systems which became popular in the early twentieth century was in fact a mistake and the two devoted the remainder of their lives to what Pa Sao Sensei called "reversing the curse."

 

Pa Sao-ha Bushi-jujitsu is the system he developed by blending his Chuan fa and his Jujitsu into one, very destructive system. It is not intended for sport applications and it will not win its pratitioners any awards for being pretty.

 

It will however give the average person an amazing edge over an attacker with nearly zero effort. It is fast, deadly and invnetive and it is for these reasons that, despite my lifelong infatuation with Okinawan Karate, I chose to learn everything the gentle, old man would teach me and to make it the heart of Ken-shen ryu.