Jao-jo-Darasai

Jao-jo-Darasai (lit. Way/Path of the Two Shepherd’s Crooks) is an ancient martial art that actually predates the Dyari, originating among the Zarishian Exodites. Originally, it actually focused on fighting with two hooked staffs like the crooks used by shepherds, but it eventually evolved into a purely unarmed form of combat.

However, it continued to evolve side by side with Dyarin culture and thus the basic form came to incorporate the aranid. As time went on various schools and styles also developed which incorporated other weapons as well, including the halberd, kinbat, and Dyarin special, but the core has always remained more or less the same.

Jao-jo-Darasai focuses on grappling, disarming, holds, use of balance and momentum, and the use of the whole body, not just individual limbs or weapons. It is designed to efficiently incapacitate, not necessarily kill or even do lasting damage, but simply to neutralize a threat.