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[feedproxy] - Bujinkan Nidan 弐段: Discovering the Footprints

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Discovering the Footprints, digital c-print photograph by Andrew Binkley

In the first post of this series, Bujinkan Shodan 初段: Searching for the Bull, I mentioned that Hatsumi Sensei describes the journey of a Bujinkan student through the Dan ranks as being akin to the Ten Oxherding pictures in Zen Buddhism. These pictures describe the seeker's journey to enlightenment.

So what does it mean to be 弐段 Nidan?

Discovering Footprints 见迹:

Woodblock print by 德力富吉郎 Tokuriki Tomikichirō

Along the riverbank under the trees,
I discover footprints.
Even under the fragrant grass,
I see his prints.
Deep in remote mountains they are found.
These traces can no more be hidden
than one's nose, looking heavenward.

This stage of training is very interesting because your eyes become open to signs everywhere. You spend as much effort in observing as you do training. You are developing the eyes to see the traces, or footprints of our art.

You begin to recognize these traces in all sorts of people and situations. You will see many previously hidden connections between kata. One technique naturally suggests another leading to 変化 henka. These kata or forms all contain the same traces.

"form is emptiness, emptiness is form."

Depending on your personality, there are two dangers: One is getting lost in the enjoyment of these 変化 henka. Another is becoming what Hatsumi Sensei calls a "technique collector."

If you are thoughtful, you notice that all of these footprints were here all along but you never noticed them before. You might wonder what else is also lying around beneath your feet that you are yet unable to see. As Hatsumi Sensei often says, "enlightenment is beneath your feet."

All of the kata begin to blend together until they seem the same. You start to connect intellectually to the idea that form is emptiness. Even though your own taijutsu rarely shows that.

Because you are finally seeing these things, and with every class you see more, you begin to feel that training more and training harder will certainly pay off. You train with new conviction that with more effort will come more results.

But this stage is also marked by an overwhelming realization that there is so much material to learn. The more you discover, the more there is. While this discovery is fun, it can also be intimidating.

And more than that, the harder you search, the more you pursue the Ox, the further away it runs. The harder you train the more the essence of the Bujinkan may elude you.

The poem above says that the "traces can no more be hidden than one's nose, looking heavenward." This suggests that the footprints if followed to their source will lead back to yourself. The 極意 gokui or essence of training can be discovered here.

Being a Nidan you will sense this, but not yet experience the 極意 Gokui directly.

In the next post we will look at Bujinkan 参段 Sandan: Perceiving the Bull

[paart-budo-buki] - Tekken or knuckles

Sat, 12 May 2012 02:02:00 +0000

Dear Budo friends,

her is one more shinken tool of Ningu, or if you like one of kobudo weapon.

also made for the collection of the tools for my Dojo, the plan is make the largest collection of replica ninja tools and equipment in this part of the world.

I always try to make things better, so I make more pieces, best goes to Dojo armory, and rest you will be able to purchase if you are interested.

This kind of Tekken (some say Kaiken) because of its geometry and shapes, can be used in many ways, not only striking, but also to assist in climbing, or for something more which I will try to explain in next post.

if you think that I'm forget my wooden work here is also one wooden version of Tekken

as was shown in the Encyclopedia of Japanese Kobudo Weapons

the same but with a little patina, painted to look older

[feedproxy] - Bujinkan Shodan 初段: Searching for the Bull

Thu, 10 May 2012 19:51:00 +0000

The Search for the Ox, digital c-print photograph by Andrew Binkley

When I first studied the 十牛圖頌 ten ox herding pictures and poems, I recognized some of my own journey reflected in Bujinkan training. Maybe you will see yourself there as well.

The Ten Ox Herding pictures illustrate the stages of a Zen life in the quest toward enlightenment. In Zen the ox represents the mind which is at first wild and untamed, running from one thing to another. It is said that these stories are trying to express the inexpressible.

Hatsumi Sensei has a favorite teacup with these ten illustrations on it. As he sips his tea, he says he likes to reminisce about the "old days," and he tells us how we have the same ten stages in our journey through Budo: First dan through Tenth Dan.

This will be the first in a series of 10 posts.

Just as a man would tie to a post
A calf that should be tamed,
Even so here should one tie one's own mind
Tight to the object of mindfulness.

What does it mean to be a Shodan 初段 in the Bujinkan? Let's look at this first stage from the Oxherding perspective:

Woodblock print by 德力富吉郎 Tokuriki Tomikichirō

寻牛 The Search for the Bull

In the pasture of the world,
I endlessly push aside the tall
grasses in search of the bull.
Following unnamed rivers,
lost upon the interpenetrating
paths of distant mountains,
My strength failing and my vitality
exhausted, I cannot find the bull.
I only hear the locusts chirping
through the forest at night.

Somehow you find inspiration to start training in the Bujinkan. This may come from a feeling that you are missing something or a need to better yourself. Or maybe that your current training is lacking in some way.

This is known as 初発心 sho-hosshin or the first stirring of the heart.

This goes from first hearing about the Bujinkan all the way through learning your basics so that you start to glimpse that there is an essence to this art that lies beyond technique. These are the footprints you look for while training on the basics. You may not know where they lead, and they remain elusive.

You will be distracted by other styles and many things that are not even related to training. There is so much to absorb that your senses will be confused.

Traps at this stage are thinking you know what is good or bad training, striving to gain rank or prove something, fear that you cannot do things, and giving up the search before you know what you are searching for.

This stage is critical for finding an authentic teacher. You will find the teacher you deserve. If your mind is clouded by what you think is right, you will get a teacher who will only confirm and magnify your ill chosen path.

All of your training will be energetic and have a feeling of really going for it. You get bloody, bruised and sweaty but love the process.

You start to notice that no matter how much you train, there is always more. The Bujinkan seems to expand the more you learn. You never reach the place where you can say, "I've got this." This can lead to a time of doubt where other paths become tempting. You want to find training that you can master and the Bujinkan rarely supplies this feeling.

After your strength and spirit are drained, you wonder, what now? Where can I go from here? How can I keep training and persevere? Can I even do this?

Every visit to the dojo feels like another wasted effort to learn anything. Frustration will rule your mind.

This is a very important passage in training. Reaching this place means you are ready to begin learning. That is why Shodan is beginner's level. You may recognize you are caught in your own conditioning and seek a way out through taijutsu.

You will feel you are nearing the end of this level when you sense that the ego's efforts to capture the essence of training are not enough.

Next we look at Bujinkan Nidan 弐段: Discovering the Footprints

[feedproxy] - Budo 武道: Bloodlust, or a Path to Peace?

Fri, 04 May 2012 22:26:00 +0000

Memorial Cathedral for World Peace, Hiroshima. photo by scarletgreen

What is the point of Budo? Training in a martial art is a strange endeavor. You learn how to bruise, break, maim, and kill all in the name of peace and love for humanity. At least that's what most teachers would tell you. None ever admit to having a love for violence.

But most martial arts have their roots in violence that was either forced on them by lovers of war, or developed by those who loved war. True peace lovers would never train to do what we do, right? I don't know. I don't think it's that black and white.

武道 Budo means martial way. The character of Bu 武 is composed of three different kanji radicals two 二, shoot or spear 弋, and stop 止. So the essence of Bu is the way of stopping two people from shooting at each other or from fighting! Budo prevents or stops fighting among people. Martial arts are to promote harmony and act to stabilize society.

During the 1860's in Japan, a time marked by bloody infighting among various samurai factions, this meaning seemed lost.

For training to cut human flesh, men were forced to perform executions or to act as seconds for those condemned to commit seppuku. I guess this is how they learned to decapitate. It is said that if the trainee even grimaced or turned a little pale at the sight of the gore, he would fail the test.

They would then skewer the bloodied heads onto bamboo stakes and leave them near bridges with a note attesting to 天誅 Tenchuu or heaven's revenge.

The author Kan Shimozawa wrote about how they bragged of their bloody feats:

"Every day the men would go out and cross swords with the enemy. One corpsman claimed the blood of the man he had killed today splattered on the ridge of the adjacent house. Another said that the blood [of his victim] hadn't splattered beyond the white paneled wall. Still another boasted that the blood of the man he had cut down had reached the roof of the house."

One of the men's mistresses described their bloodlust:

"People would talk about whom they had killed today, and whom they were going to kill tomorrow. It was all so frightful."

One group of hit men even adopted the nickname 人斬 hito kiri which is like calling yourself "the beheaders".

Not all were so enamored of blood. Katsu Kaishū, founder of the Japanese navy said,

"I despise killing and have never killed a man. Take my sword for example. I used to keep it tied so tightly to the tsuba, that I couldn't draw the blade even if I had wanted to. I've always been resolved not to cut a person even if that person should cut me. I look at such a person as no more than a flea. If one lands on your shoulder, all it can do is bite a little. This causes nothing more than an itch, and has nothing to do with life."

I think that whether you have an affinity for violence and martial arts bring you some measure of peace, or you are a peace lover who wants to understand the other side, training taps into some very primal aspects of our dual natures. To be a whole complete human requires knowing the dark and light and gray.

So go ahead and learn how to bruise, break, maim, and kill… all the while embracing the understanding that our training leads us to a place of never needing to use these violent skills. If you have a good teacher they will show you the path from one to the other. Do not neglect the depths of real combat and violence with the power contained therein, nor the heights of love and peace and the great powers that arise from this stillness.

[budoshop] - Hankyou 2008 – Kaigozan Christmas Seminar

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:39:21 +0000

Reflections of this years Bujinkan theme, Togakure-ryu ninpo taijutsu. Many people went to Japan this year and they all came together to share on this seminar.

The instructors was Paul Waserbrot, Mats Hjelm, Steven Helling, Daniel Bodin, Fredrik Markgren, Arvid Karlsson, Jens Lindstrand, Richard Maier, William Ustav.

Most of the instructions is in Swedish!

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden December 2008

Note: Some of the instructors spoke Swedish, and others English.

This movie is available on DVD (click here!) or available as download, click button below.

100 minutes, 707 Mb for $11.99

Instructions are in SWEDISH!

[budoshop] - Hankyou 2008 – Kaigozan Christmas Seminar

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:39:21 +0000

Reflections of this years Bujinkan theme, Togakure-ryu ninpo taijutsu. Many people went to Japan this year and they all came together to share on this seminar.

The instructors was Paul Waserbrot, Mats Hjelm, Steven Helling, Daniel Bodin, Fredrik Markgren, Arvid Karlsson, Jens Lindstrand, Richard Maier, William Ustav.

Most of the instructions is in Swedish!

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden December 2008

Note: Some of the instructors spoke Swedish, and others English.

This movie is available on DVD (click here!) or available as download, click button below.

100 minutes, 707 Mb for $11.99

Instructions are in SWEDISH!

[feedproxy] - Joukenhansha 条件反射: Reflex Conditioning or a Trap?

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:04:00 +0000

正拳 photo by *嘟嘟嘟*

I love it when I get to spar with a martial artist who has great conditioning. Not only is it a great test for me and what I think I know about martial arts, but I have a secret weapon in our Bujinkan taijutsu that allows me to defeat them even if they have superior conditioning. This weapon is the conditioning itself. I can use it to trap them.

In martial arts, sports, or combat training people strive to develop fast reflexes. Reflexes don't require conscious thought. In fact the action of a true reflex follows the reflex arc to create a near instantaneous response to stimuli.

This is an advantage in dangerous situations where there isn't time to think about your choices. You just pull your hand out of the fire. In our training we are not usually studying true hard-wired reflexes. Instead we are conditioning our muscles and bodies to develop responses that have proved effective in our training and in combat.

Some people call this muscle memory. Or another term is procedural memory. This is where you commit a specific action to memory by training it over and over. This repetition strengthens neural pathways allowing the brain to access these patterns more efficiently. A medical definition for this might be more like the word reflexive as opposed to reflex.

For the most part, this conditioning is useful and good. Unless you are facing a devious and thinking opponent who can turn it against you. Soke calls this 条件反射 joukenhansha which is a conditioned response. He spoke of this while talking about how you should not take ukemi. Which I wrote about here: Why Do You Take Ukemi? So How can this conditioning be turned against you?

Well a reflexive action is a habitual and unthinking behavior; or relating to or consisting of a reflex. It's the habitual and unthinking part that gets you. When I recognize these reflexive actions in your movements, whether they are offensive or defensive, I will seek to trigger them to set a trap.

It's easy to see this in action no matter the style. Test it out on any person (choose someone who will not seek revenge). Stand facing each other, but don't tell them what you are testing. No reach as fast as you can for their ear.

How do they react? People with no training at all act with pure reflex in a startle-flinch response. People who train in a specific style will reveal their training, which is reflexive. In the 1980s the US Army conducted experiments to discover that people can be startled into their favored, trained fighting stances, no matter what those stances were.

Then set a trap so that when they react with their reflexive conditioning again, you will defeat them. All you have to do is trigger that reaction by reaching for their ear. Or you can make some other feint, kyojitsu, or threatening motion.

Hatsumi Sensei says this is like Pavlov's dogs. And he says we all know how easily dogs are controlled by people. So we should not train ourselves to be conditioned like dogs. Don't design reflexive traps into your training program.

[budoshop] - Hankyou 2007 – Kaigozan Christmas Seminar

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:36:02 +0000

Reflections of this years Bujinkan theme, Kukishin-ryu daken-taijutsu. Many people went to Japan this year and they all came together to share on this seminar.

The instructors was Mats Hjelm, Christian Spicker, Petter Swedin, Daniel Åberg, Daniel Neiberg.

Most of the instructions is in Swedish!

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden December 2007

Note: Some of the instructors spoke Swedish, and others English.

This movie is available on DVD (click here!) or available as download, click button below.

92 minutes, 648 Mb for $11.99

Instructions are in SWEDISH!

[budoshop] - Hankyou 2007 – Kaigozan Christmas Seminar

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:36:02 +0000

Reflections of this years Bujinkan theme, Kukishin-ryu daken-taijutsu. Many people went to Japan this year and they all came together to share on this seminar.

The instructors was Mats Hjelm, Christian Spicker, Petter Swedin, Daniel Åberg, Daniel Neiberg.

Most of the instructions is in Swedish!

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden December 2007

Note: Some of the instructors spoke Swedish, and others English.

This movie is available on DVD (click here!) or available as download, click button below.

92 minutes, 648 Mb for $11.99

Instructions are in SWEDISH!

[kumafr] - Japan Trip April 2012 – Diary

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:46:14 +0000

I came back yesterday from a fantastic trip and I hope you have been able to share with me the things I trained in Noda.

I have been asked in Japan why I was writing so much*. It is to share with the community some of the knowledge we get in Japan with Sôke and the shihan. I hope it will help you to wait for your next trip.

These texts* and these pictures are my attempt to give a fair image of what is happening in Japan. This is why I have added many pictures to these texts.

I took many pictures and not all are good but please see them as a training documentary. Pictures being forbidden during training, you will mainly have pictures taken before and after the class. As today someone asked me to put a link here to access the pictures uploaded on facebook during my trip you will find them below:

The first album contains the first 10 days (over 500 pict):

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3395318174028.144619.1601937800&type=3

and the second one only the last day (around 100 pict):

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3464131334314.145724.1601937800&type=3

Enjoy and comment them if you feel like it.

*All the texts in this blog were uploaded in April. If you want to read them again, click on “April 2012″ in the home page and they will appear.

[paart-budo-buki] - Kunai shinken

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:28:00 +0000

My dear Buyu's I have some time to finally finish my "live" kunai, so here is some pictures for start,

later I will write something more about him, mainly blade is made of steel and the handle of an ordinary iron welded to the blade, thereby prevent cracking handle when I throw kunai or when is use as leverage for breaking.

[budoshop] - Hankyou 2006 – Kaigozan Christmas Seminar

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:38:08 +0000

Reflections of this years Bujinkan theme, Shindenfudo-ryu kosshijutsu. Many people went to Japan this year and they all came together to share on this seminar.

The instructors was Fredrik Markgren, Arvid Karlsson, Maria Eneroth, Patrik Johansson, Mats Hjelm, Roger Mattsson, Kent T, Daniel Bodin.

Most of the instructions is in Swedish!

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden December 2006

Note: Some of the instructors spoke Swedish, and others English.

This movie is available on DVD (click here!) or available as download, click button below.

125 minutes, 889 Mb for $11.99

Instructions are in SWEDISH!

[budoshop] - Hankyou 2006 – Kaigozan Christmas Seminar

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:38:08 +0000

Reflections of this years Bujinkan theme, Shindenfudo-ryu kosshijutsu. Many people went to Japan this year and they all came together to share on this seminar.

The instructors was Fredrik Markgren, Arvid Karlsson, Maria Eneroth, Patrik Johansson, Mats Hjelm, Roger Mattsson, Kent T, Daniel Bodin.

Most of the instructions is in Swedish!

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden December 2006

Note: Some of the instructors spoke Swedish, and others English.

This movie is available on DVD (click here!) or available as download, click button below.

125 minutes, 889 Mb for $11.99

Instructions are in SWEDISH!

[budoshop] - Hankyou 2005 – Kaigozan Christmas Seminar

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:09:44 +0000

Reflections of this years Bujinkan theme, Gyokko-ryu kosshijutsu. Many people went to Japan this year and they all came together to share on this seminar.

The instructors was Christian Spicker, Ola Grönlund, Martin Berg, Fredrik Markgren, Roger Mattsson, Petter Swedin, Kristoffer Metsälä, Christer Westberg, Mats Hjelm, Jonas Stenlund, Arvid Karlsson, Arne Elmlund.

Most of the instructions is in Swedish, some instructors spoke in English!

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden December 2005

Note: Some of the instructors spoke Swedish, and others English.

This movie is available on DVD (click here!) or available as download, click button below.

125 minutes, 884 Mb for $11.99

Instructions are in SWEDISH!

[budoshop] - Hankyou 2004 – Kaigozan Christmas Seminar

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:10:11 +0000

Reflections of this years Bujinkan theme, Roppo Kuji no Biken. Many people went to Japan this year and they all came together to share on this seminar.

The instructors was Mats Hjelm, Fredrik Markgren, Hans Nilsson, Roger Mattsson, Arne Elmlund, Petter Swedin, Kristoffer Metsälä, Ola Grönlund and more. Något av det som lärdes ut var falltekniker med eller utan rustning, budo no kiso, daisho jûtaijutsu, tachi waza, yoroi kumi uchi, taijutsu m.m.

Instructions are in SWEDISH!

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden December 2004

Note: Some of the instructors spoke Swedish, and others English.

This movie is available on DVD (click here!) or available as download, click button below.

116 minutes, 819 Mb for $11.99

Instructions are in SWEDISH!

[budoshop] - KAIGOUSURU 2006 TAIKAI – 10′th International Training Party

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:07:29 +0000

Kaigousuru 10 – the tenth International Bujinkan Training Party with…

- Arnaud Cousergue (Fra)
- Ed Martin (USA)
- Lauri Jokinen (Fin)
- Lubos Pokorny (Cze)
- Mats Hjelm (Swe)

At this three day Tai Kai the five instructors taught three classes each. One big group with everyone, then we had split up the group in two, green belts and the black belts so that the instructors could teach more freely and more detailed to the appropriate groups. See below for details of what they taught.

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden April 2006

All movies are 640×360 (H.264, AAC), in windows rename file from .M4V to .MP4 if you have problems.

Part 1 – 138 minutes, 1.67 Gb for $14.99

Arnaud Cousergue (France)

138 minutes where Arnaud taught Taijutsu, the first class was more advanced Taijutsu. The second class was for the green belts where he taught proper Kamae, blocking and movement.

Part 2 – 68 minutes, 831 Mb for $11.99

Ed Martin (U.S.A.)

68 minutes where Ed taught breathing techniques, how to use the body structure to your advantage, self defense from a knife attack. To the green belt class he taught Taijutsu from grabbing situations.

Part 3 – 90 minutes, 1.1 Gb for $11.99

Lauri Jokinen (Finland)

90 minutes where Lauri taught Suwari-gata and Tachi-waza techniques from Shindenfudo-ryu. At the green belt class he taught more Taijutsu henka, and a little basics.

Part 4 – 90 minutes, 1.1 Gb for $11.99

Lubos Pokorny (Czech Republic)

90 minutes where Lubos taught Taijutsu feeling from his many months in Japan this year (we did not film the green belt class with Lubos).

Part 5 – 88 minutes, 1.06 Gb for $11.99

Mats Hjelm (Sweden)

88 minutes where Mats Hjelm taught Sabaki, Kamae, Striking and blocking. Sanshin no kata. Sword basics, Iai-nuki, cutting (makiwara cutting), evading/blocking. And Shindenfudo-ryu Taijutsu techniques.

[budoshop] - TAKAGIYOSHIN-RYU with SHAWN GRAY (keiko2)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:41:44 +0000

: 76 minutes, 520 Mb for $11.99

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A seminar in Kaigozan Dojo with Shawn Gray from Japan.

The theme for this video is Hontai Takagiyôshin-ryu and Daishô. Shawn taught Ukemi, Ukemi applications, Takagiyôshin-ryû Oikakedori (Omotegata), Yui Gyaku (Omotegata), Onikudaki (Sabakigata), Fuu Setsu (Shirabegata), Gyaku Dori (Shirabegata), Gokuraku Otoshi (Mogurigata), Onibuse (Mogurigata), Inazuma Dori (Mogurigata) and various henka including wearing the Daishou (short and long sword).

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden November 2002

Note: The instructions is in English and there is no sub titles on this VCD

About the instructor

Shawn left behing 10 years of Karate and Kendo to begin Bujinkan training in Canada after returning from a 1-year stay in Japan in 1990. After a training visit in 1995, he relocated to Japan permanently in January of 1997. Shawn passed the godan test in January of 1999, and in 2000 at the urging of Hatsumi sensei established a dojo, the first Bujinkan dojo in Japan led by a civilian foreigner. Shawn has regularly served as interpreter for Dr. Hatsumi and has translated much of Senseis writing into english. He has been regularly invited to give seminars in Europe , North America , and Asia.

More info about Shawn http://bujinkan.graycastle.com

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[budoshop] - JUPPO SESSHO with SHAWN GRAY (keiko5)

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:31:22 +0000

: 65 minutes, 460 Mb for $11.99

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A seminar in Kaigozan Dojo with Shawn Gray from Japan.

This is the 4′th seminar with Mr.Shawn Gray at Kaigozan Dojo in Stockholm Sweden, and the second this year. This time he taught many techniques which he has trained in Japan since his last visit in March. Koteki Ryouda Juppou Sessho no Jutsu (the 2003 Bujinkan theme).

Ukemi, Taijutsu, Kunai, Kodachi and Kyoketsushoge.

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden June 2003

Note: The instructions is in English and there is no sub titles on this VCD

About the instructor

More info about Shawn http://bujinkan.graycastle.com

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[budoshop] - JUPPO SESSHO with SHAWN GRAY (keiko4)

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:38:47 +0000

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A seminar in Kaigozan Dojo with Shawn Gray from Japan.

The theme for this video is Koteki Ryouda Juppou Sesshou no Jutsu – (Kunai, & Basic Taijutsu). Shawn taught the first four Kunai Kata (Kiri no Ichiyou, Mizu-tori, Rakka, Mawashi- dori) from Koteki Ryouda Juppou Sessho no Jutsu (the 2003 Bujinkan theme). He also taught Taihenjutsu Ukemi, Sanshin no Kata and Kihon Happou applications and more. There is a bonus segment with the last and fifth kata, Gorin Kudaki by Mats Hjelm.

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden March 2003

Note: The instructions is in English and there is no sub titles on this VCD

About the instructor

More info about Shawn http://bujinkan.graycastle.com

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[budoshop] - TAKAGIYOSHIN-RYU with SHAWN GRAY (keiko1)

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:00:16 +0000

: 62 minutes, 438 Mb for $11.99

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A seminar in Kaigozan Dojo with Shawn Gray from Japan.

The theme for this video is Hontai Takagiyôshin-ryu and Daishô. On this video he shares what Hatsumi Sensei had been teaching so far this year. He taught Ukemi, Ukemi applications, Suwarigata, and seven basic techniques from Takagiyôshin-ryû, with various henka including wearing the Daishô (short and long sword).

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden July 2002

Note: The instructions is in English and there is no sub titles on this VCD

About the instructor

More info about Shawn http://bujinkan.graycastle.com

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[kaigozan] - Bujinkan Budo-taijutsu träning i Kaigozan Dojo Stockholm – VT2012

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:52:15 +0000

Välkomna att provträna Bujinkan budo-taijutsu hos oss i Kaigozan dojo. Vi tar in nybörjare hela Januari, Februari och Mars. Nästa terminsstart är 1:a Juni, och sedan mitten/slutet av Augusti.

Välkomna att provträna två gånger gratis. Vi har åldersgräns 15 år.

Tiderna är för vårterminen 2012 är

- Tisdagar kl 19:00-21:00
- Torsdagar kl 19:00-21:00

PS. Mejla oss inte och fråga om det är okej att komma, det är okej! Ta med dina frågor, träningskläder och besök oss för provträning, kom i tid!

För mer information se “Träningsinformation” i menyn ovan.

Välkomna!

Kaigozan instruktörerna

[kesshi] - New videos worth mentioning on the intertubes

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:27:04 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KZm5bHKnl8

1980 - US Embassy demo in Tokyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSlU7XmyPTM

2008 - Bujinkan Kashiwa Demonstration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhv4x5xdHSQ

1989 - München Taikai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chmbgrhkGB0

1991 - Daikomyousai Japan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkIIDNCyyQ

Why we don't break boards

[kesshi] - New DVD’s from the Sweden Tai Kai 2011

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:42:49 +0000

Sveneric Bogsäter from Holland together with Rob Renner, Duncan Stewart and Steve Olsen from Japan was invited to teach at this Swedish Tai Kai organized by Mats Hjelm and Svenska Bujinkanförbundet. There was two DVD's and two download videos released from this seminar. This Video is one part of this set.

At the Taikai all instructors had three classes each, one class with the whole big group, one class with all Shidoshi (5'th dan and above), and one class with Mudansha & Yudansha (beginners up to fifth dan).

The instructions is all in ENGLISH. The DVD is Region Free and NTSC (US/Japan format, works on modern DVD players)

Available for 239.00 SEK at BUDOSHOP.SE

On this DVD - Sveneric Bogsäter & Rob Renner

This two hour DVD is packed with good demonstrations and instructions from Sveneric Bogsäter and Rob Renner. Sveneric had recently been in Japan, and Rob Renner has lived in Japan for many years, so what they taught was very much the feeling from Japan trainings with Hatsumi Soke and the Japanese Shihan.

Sveneric taught Kihon-happo variations against one or two opponents to the whole group. At the Shidoshi-class he taught Taijutsu and Hanbojutsu. At the Mudansha & Yudansha class he taught Taijutsu

Rob taught how to understand the distance and footwork with unarmed and with a Hanbo to the whole group. At the Shidoshi class he taught how to do the Kihon-happo techniques against someone who is resisting, directions, balance breaking and distance. Against one and several opponents. Rob's Mudansha and Yudansha class is available on download file only (click here!).

Available for 239.00 SEK at BUDOSHOP.SE

On this DVD - Duncan Stewart & Steve Olsen

This two hour DVD is packed with good demonstrations and instructions from Duncan Stewart and Steve Olsen. Both Duncan and Steve has lived in Japan for many years, so what they taught was very much the feeling from Japan trainings with Hatsumi Soke and the Japanese Shihan.

Steve taught Taijutsu to the Shidoshi class and to the class with the whole big group. The Mudansha and Yudansha class is available only as download video (click here!).

Duncan taught drills how to learn the correct distance to the opponent, and Taijutsu techniques with or without small concealed weapons. To the whole big group he taught and demonstrated Taijutsu with devastating efficiency. Unfortunately there was no footage of his Mudansha and Yudansha class.

On This video – Steve Olsen

: 20 minutes, 243 Mb for $6.99
Only available as download

This video is 20 minute where Steve Olsen taught the Mudansha and Yudansha class (ranks below 5′th dan). He taught a little sword cutting technique but mostly Taijutsu.

On This video – Rob Renner

: 32 minutes, 388 Mb for $6.99
Only available as download

This video is 32 minute where Rob Renner taught the Mudansha and Yudansha class (ranks below 5′th dan). He taught footwork, distance, taijutsu and unarmed training drills that will make you understand the basics better.

[kaigozan] - Dean Rostohar i Oktober

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:38:38 +0000

Dean Rostohar och Hatsumi Soke. September 2011 fick dean utmärkelsen Bufu-ikkan menkyou.

Sista helgen i Oktober arrangerar vi ännu ett träningsläger med Dean Rostohar, Shihan från Kroatien. Jag vet att jag arrangerar träningsläger med väldigt bra instruktörer väldigt ofta. Och det kan vara svårt att få tid och råd att gå på allt, men detta är ett träningsläger jag tycker att ni måste gå på mer än något annat!

Dean har precis varit i Japan och tränat med Hatsumi Soke och Shihan. Hatsumi Soke använde honom som uke många gånger för att förmedla känslan i tekniken. När Soke demonstrerar så gör han aldrig likadant, och det kan vara väldigt svårt om inte omöjligt att förstå vad han gör om man inte är den som tar emot tekniken och överlever .

Varje gång Dean är i Japan så tar Soke upp honom och ber honom att demonstrera och lära ut från sin erfarenhet av riktig strid (inbördeskriget i det forna Jugoslavien) och arbete som polis. Hatsumi Soke gör detta för att visa att han tycker att det Dean har att lära ut är relevant och viktigt för oss att förstå.

Nu har vi bjudit in honom till Sverige att undervisa oss i hantering och användning av kniv och pistol, taktik och försvar. Det lär också bli ganska mycket obeväpnat försvar, och nya influenser från Japanträningarna.

Missa inte detta, vi har endast ett begränsat antal platser, och det är först till kvarn som gäller! Mer information och anmälningsformulär finns här!

Hoppas vi ses på detta fantastiska läger

/Mats

[kesshi] - Modern warrior coming to Stockholm in October

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:02:55 +0000

Dean with the Bufuikkan menkyo

There are many people in the Bujinkan who claim to teach reality based techniques without any real experience. There is however a few people that can do this, and do it very good. And one of the best one I know is my close and good friend Dean Rostohar Shihan from Croatia. With his experience from the civil war in former Yugoslavia, and as a former police officer he certainly knows what he is talking about.

Dean goes to Japan to train with Hatsumi Soke and the Shihan several times per year. He always train three trainings per day, to make out most of his time in Japan. Hatsumi Soke always put him up to teach about his experiences. When he was there earlier this month even more so, Soke used him as Uke often to teach the real feeling. Soke also awarded him with the Bufu-ikkan menkyo which he only give to his top students.

When Dean doesn't go to Japan he practice in his own Dojo with over 100 students. He also attend many courses and seminars and further his studies in many areas with instructors outside the Bujinkan. He also practice shooting and military tactics with SPECWOG, and teach many seminars and courses.

In October 29-30'th I'm organizing a seminar with him in Stockholm. I can't emphasize enough how important a seminar like this is for everyone training in the Bujinkan system. Especially if you want to learn self defense and tactics how to defend yourself against a knife or pistol. Running backwards on a flat floor in the dojo all the time until the opponent overextend himself and fall down is fine, but how reality based is the training, really? Your instructor may say this is reality, and then do something pretty stupid and cover it up with a henka and flow so that you don't see how stupid the first response really was. OK, sorry! The word "stupid" might be a strong word, I know there is good teachers out there, but far from all. Being "stupid" is also a learning process that we all need to go through, but staying on the stupid level is just stupid .

I know there is many seminars all the time, and find the time and money to all is difficult. All I ask of you is to ask yourself what do you want from the training? If you think it is fun as it is in your dojo and you don't care much about reality then fine, good luck! If you on the other hand think that being able to defend yourself is important, then you should really try to attend this seminar (or any other Seminar with Dean)! I promise it will be very eye opening, and you will see your training with different eyes.

Both knife and pistol is very scary weapons, defending against them is very difficult. But it is possible if you also know how to use them as weapons. If you don't know how to use the weapons properly how can you say that you know how to defend yourself against them.

Dean Rostohar together with Noguchi Shihan, Hatsumi Soke and Kan Shihan.

This is the feeling Hatsumi Soke teach in Honbu dojo all the time. All instructors take what they want and do what ever they feel like for various reasons. By Hatsumi Soke using Dean in Honbu dojo so much, and constantly ask him to teach and explain in front of him, as well as being his Uke must mean that Hatsumi Soke appreciate what Dean is doing. I think also that Hatsumi Soke is learning from Dean as he watches.

So with this I really recommend you to come to this seminar! The web site is in Swedish, but there is translation buttons on top of the web site. If you have problem with the language, you can always contact me, I know the translator is not always 100% correct.

Remember to sign up, because the places is very limited!

[kaigozan] - Månadsteman under sommaren.

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:10:29 +0000

Under sommaren har vi tränat utomhus vid ett flertal tillfällen. I Juni körde vi Rokushaku-bojutsu (lång stav) och svärd, i Juli So-jutsu (spjut) och svärd, och i Augusti Naginata-jutsu (hillebard) och svärd. När det varit dåligt väder eller för varmt har vi tränat inomhus i dojon med AC’n på.

Så mycket bloggande har det inte blivit under sommaren av förklariga skäl, sommaren var fantastisk!

Vi hade ett miniläger i början av Juli också med Ilan Gattegno från Israel. I Kaigozan Dojo tar vi aldrig längre uppehåll än nödvändigt, vi har haft träningar varje vecka under hela sommaren.

Nedan är lite bilder från gårdagens träning…

[kaigozan] - Terminsstart 23/8 för nybörjare

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:58:21 +0000

Vi ber om ursäkt för lite sen information, men terminen startar officiellt Tisdag den 23/8. Vi har löpande nybörjarintag hela Augusti, September och Oktober (nästa terminsstart är i Januari). Vi har åldersgräns 15 år (det är okej om man fyller 15 senare i år).

Tiderna är för höstterminen 2011 är

- Tisdagar kl 18:00-19:25
- Torsdagar kl 18:00-19:25

PS. Mejla oss inte och fråga om det är okej att komma, det är okej! Ta med dina frågor och besök oss, kom i tid!

För mer information se “Träningsinformation” i menyn ovan.

Välkomna!

Kaigozan instruktörerna

[youtube] - Doron Navon - Taijutsu and Feldenkrais 1994 (Trailer)

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:34:50 +0000

Doron Navon - Taijutsu and Feldenkrais 1994 (Trailer) Doron Navon from Israel started training with Hatsumi Sensei in the late 60 s long before the "ninja-boom". When he came home from Japan 1974 he had so many injuries that he could hardly move for a long time. He was introduced to Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais who founded the Feldenkrais Method, and learned this method directly from him. Doron says that the Feldenkrais method is a shortcut to the godan test. This has been confirmed by both Hatsumi Sensei and many other who have studied Taijutsu and Feldenkrais. This video was originally released as a VCD / Video CD in 2003 by BUDOSHOP.SE hence the quality is VCD PAL (352x288), playing time is 52 minutes. It has been remastered and converted so that it plays nice on iPod, iPad, iPhone, PC, Mac, or any other device that can play standard h.264 videos. It is not DVD quality store.payloadz.com From: shugyou Views: 2368 8 ratings Time: 01:25 More in Howto & Style

[kesshi] - Facebook friends and who we associate us with

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:52:01 +0000

I just got another friend request from someone who claims to be a "Ninja Sōke" (I only know one and he is not on fb!). I usually say yes to everyone who seems to be a Bujinkan member, or someone I know. This guy probably just want my name to add credibility to what he is claiming. I see we had 37 mutual friends, all (I think) is Bujinkan members. I wonder why do you add people like these as your fb friend, unless you know them?

It's like saying, hi I'm a ninja master and look at all my high ranking Facebook "friends" from other styles who know and respect me and my style. When in fact they never met each other. His poor students he con might not know this. At least I don't want my name associated with someone like this.

On the other hand I say yes to all friend invites from people who seems to be a Bujinkan member. We have probably met, and I don't remember names easily. Or we will probably meet each other in the future, being in the same organisation and travels around frequently.

So what I meant with this rant is that I think we should be more careful on Facebook, and who we associate us together with.

[youtube] - Jin Ryaku No Maki v1.5

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:11:40 +0000

Jin Ryaku No Maki v1.5 For full description go to this web site... bit.ly budoshop.se From: shugyou Views: 853 3 ratings Time: 02:52 More in Howto & Style