Carl Cestari – Goshinjutsu Judo

Description of Goshinjutsu Judo

Carl goes over pre-wwii Judu Goshinjutsu or techniques of self-defense.

It includes the rare explanation of the art of Atemiwaza.

It will give you a look at the “combative” methods of Judo and not the usual “sporting” techniques.

About Carl Cestari

Carl Cestari was born in Coventry, England to an American Serviceman and an English mother, the serviceman was of Italian heritage and descent. Although he was not quite a baby when he was brought to New York Carl himself thought his nationality to be American first and Italian second.

The young Cestari grew up amongst a close knit family, for the Italian Americans family was the most important thing in life. The reason to get up in the mornings, to work to earn the daily bread, the central part of life. He had many Uncles who influenced him in many ways, life was not easy for some of the Americans of Italian descent. In many ways there were obstacles set against them, simply put these were racial, societal and political.

Italian Americans had to look hard to find work open to them, the area’s they were forced to live in meant they often had to fight to keep their liveihoods and provide for their family’s. Carl’s tales of his Uncles Sal and Emile had relevance not only to training but also (and more importantly) in life.

Fighting to survive was something that Carl learned early on in his life, from early instruction with his family he recognised that that the Martial Arts were not only worthy but necessary of both study
and practice. His Uncles and his father had trained formally in the then rare Martial Arts schools, in the Armed Forces and “learning by doing” in real life. This was without doubt where Carl’s love of practicality in technique sprang from, he later shared some of his family’s tales with some of his friends and helped educate and inform a new generation.

His first Martial Arts instruction was like for many of us the art of Judo, in this he began a life long affiliation in both sporting and “old school” styles but as time passed he branched out to study many other arts.