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Thursday Night Saturday Morning Fees Casual - $20 per lesson Please note that fees are due prior to each lesson or for monthly fees, on the first Thursday of every month. Location |
Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu The techniques of Budo are all highly polished masterpieces. However, if you learn or memorise them, everything stops. You end up feeling trapped, and it has the opposite effect from that intended. Once you have learned a technique, you need to forget it. If you remember and recall it, it loses its authenticity. Learning a technique is not the end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start. It is only by discarding memorized techniques, stripping them down, that you can discover a way forward to the next masterpiece. In genuine Budo, any conventional common sense about martial arts (fighting) that you might have learned in the past can actually get in the way. This is because common sense prevents you from changing. In real life, people who live beyond the bounds of common sense attack you suddenly, with scant regard for any rules of combat. You can hardly call yourself a martial artist if this throws you off balance. Above
all, it is important to maintain equanimity. You should be able to
change any part of your life quite normally and naturally, just as your
heart beats. Otherwise, you will end up stuck in your ways and unable
to make your way through the world. By leaving behind adherence to
forms... your spirit will become more flexible, your 'capacity' as a
martial artist will grow, those around you will be able to produce
free, ever changing techniques wherever and whenever you choose. Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi 34th Soke of the Bujinkan
Soke - Head of the Tradition - of the Bujinkan - Warrior God Hall Born 1931. After progressing through various martial arts, he found his life's mentor, Takamatsu Toshitsugu, and studied under him for 15 years, becoming the 34th Grandmaster of Togakure-ryu Ninjutsu and eight other arts, which he unified into the Bujinkan system. While traveling around the world, teaching thousands of individual students as well as law enforcement agencies, he received numerous accolades from politicians and spiritual leaders of many nationalities. He has worked as a professional osteopath, acted in a popular television series, and as author of many books on Ninjutsu, was for many years Chairman of the International Department of Japan Literary Artists Club. |
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