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In 1999, attempting to return to the world of martial arts and to create something similar to Shooto, he created a martial art named Seikendo. It was a hybrid martial art similar to Shooto and MMA, but more akin to a traditional martial art—with focus on etiquette and ceremonials based on traditional Japanese imagery and ideals and spiritual and mental development—and focused on self-defense: Seikendokas would wear keikogis to simulate clothing, had rules that based on the principle it had a concrete floor, with no submissions allowed or much grappling focus but with a lot of ground-and-pound, and fighting in an octagonal ring without ropes.[5][6] Sayama also created a promotion by the same name to promote his martial art (as he had done to Shooto), which ran for three years and had five events before closing down in 2003.
