🥋🔥 Why I Created Jissenko Ryū Karate — And Why It Was the Right Decision

🥋🔥 Why I Created Jissenko Ryū Karate — And Why It Was the Right Decision

By Sensei Liam Musiak, Founder of Voracious Karate

December 2025

I have been asked the same question over and over:

“Why create your own style? Why not stay Wado Ryu?”

Today I’m answering that properly — honestly — and fully.

After deep reflection, hundreds of hours of teaching, pressure-testing, criminology study, and reviewing everything I built since founding Voracious Karate in October 2022…

The truth is simple:

What we do is not Wado Ryu anymore.

And hasn’t been for a long time.

And because of that, creating Jissenko Ryū Karate wasn’t just a choice.

It was the right move.

The necessary move.

And, honestly… the inevitable move.

Below is exactly why.

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🥋 1. My curriculum evolved far beyond Wado Ryu

When Voracious Karate began, it was Wado.

But by 2023 — without even realising it — I had already created something completely different.

Today my system includes:

• criminology

• psychology

• predator behaviour

• self-defence law

• my A.A.E.E.L. Code

• my V.E.R.B.A.L., F.I.G.H.T., and S.T.A.N.D. Codes

• pressure drills like Rise or Fall, Iron Fortress, Rush Zone, Court of Conflict

• original kata

• scenario training

• verbal de-escalation

• battlefield-level mental conditioning

• personalised fighting styles for every student

None of this exists in traditional Wado Ryu.

My teaching stopped being Wado years ago.

I had evolved into something new without even meaning to.

Keeping the Wado name would actually be dishonest to Wado and to us.

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🥋 2. My students train in realism, not choreography

Traditional karate teaches:

“Copy the instructor’s movement.”

Jissenko Ryū teaches:

“Learn the principle. Express it your way.”

Every student develops their own stance, their own angles, their own timing, their own rhythm, their own power.

I don’t create clones.

I create fighters.

That alone made this system fundamentally different to every traditional style.

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🧠 3. The criminology and psychology integration is unique worldwide

No karate style on earth does what we do.

My system uses:

• serial killer analysis

• victimology

• crime scene behaviour

• pre-attack indicators

• predator strategies

• deception tactics

• psychological threat assessment

• legal self-defence frameworks

This isn’t “sport karate.”

This isn’t “traditional karate.”

This is real-world combat psychology fused with modern martial arts.

That alone justifies a new style.

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🥋🔥 4. My pressure tests make this system brutally real

Wado doesn’t have:

• Rise or Fall

• Iron Fortress

• Rush Zone

• Guardian Drill

• Verbal Gauntlet

• Court of Conflict

• March of the Dan

These drills came from my own mind, my own experiences, and my own understanding of violence.

These drills are not just uncommon —

They’re unheard of in traditional karate systems.

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🥋 5. Kata, drills, and codes I created myself

When you create:

• your own kata

• your own bunkai

• your own codes

• your own drills

• your own pressure tests

• your own self-defence framework

• your own syllabus for every belt

…you are no longer teaching someone else’s style.

You are creating your own.

That is exactly how every karate style in history was founded.

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⭐ 6. Students, reviews, and awards made it obvious

My students said:

• “This is different from any karate I’ve ever seen.”

• “Most realistic training I’ve ever done.”

• “This is modern and powerful.”

• “This feels like a new style.”

The Global Recognition Awards told me the same thing.

They literally awarded my dojo because I created something new in martial arts.

The public already saw it before I did.

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🔥 7. Jissenko Ryū Karate is what we actually do

This is the honest truth:

Calling what we do Wado Ryu is actually disrespectful —

to Wado, to Otsuka Sensei, and to the people who preserve traditional Wado as it truly is.

Wado is beautiful, pure, traditional, technical.

Jissenko Ryū is something else entirely:

• modern

• realistic

• psychological

• combat-driven

• adaptive

• legally correct

• uncompromising

It is Real Combat Karate.

The name had to reflect the reality.

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🥋 8. I didn’t create a new style for ego or rank

People assume starting a new style is about:

🏆 Wanting power

🏆 Wanting higher rank

🏆 Wanting special treatment

It’s not.

If anything, I’ve done the opposite.

I could have immediately taken 10th Dan as founder and creator.

But I didn’t.

I took 6th Dan.

Because this style is not about ego.

It’s about honesty.

Honesty about what we actually teach.

Honesty about what actually keeps people safe.

Honesty about the system we have built.

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🥋🔥 9. Jissenko Ryū Karate is the evolution martial arts needed

I didn’t “decide” to make a style.

My training, my study, my experience, my students, and my knowledge created it naturally.

I simply gave it the correct name.

The world doesn’t need another sport style.

It needs a style built for modern violence — backed by criminology, psychology, pressure, realism, and ethics.

And that’s exactly what we built.

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🥋 10. This is the beginning of something historic

I believe this style will grow.

I believe students will thrive in it.

I believe it fills a gap the martial arts world has ignored for decades.

This is not the end of my journey.

It’s the beginning of a new one.

A new era.

A new identity.

A new direction.

A new legacy.

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🔥 Final Words

Creating Jissenko Ryū Karate wasn’t a dramatic choice.

It was simply the truth.

A truth I finally decided to honour.

And now the name matches what we train, what we believe in, and what we fight for.

— Sensei Liam Musiak

Founder of Jissenko Ryū Karate

Instructor of Voracious Karate