Kenjutsu & Taijutsu

The main theme this three day Taikai was Kenjutsu and Taijutsu

Kenjutsu: Hatsumi Soke taught a lot of Sword techniques, basics and more advanced techniques. Cutting, kamae, distance, timing and much more. He also taught Naginata-jutsu.

Taijutsu: Soke taught Nichi-geki technique from Shindenfudo-ryu in great detail. Kyusho (pressure points), the basic way of striking in Shindenfudo-ryu, kicking, throwing and much much more.

Muto-dori: He also taught muto-dori techniques from various weapons such as Tanto, Ken, Bo and Naginata.

THIS WAS A GREAT TAIKAI!

210 minutes playing time
Two DVD disc set
NTSC system / Region free
Hatsumi Soke speaks in Japanese and Navon Shihan translates in to English, no sub titles

Shindenfudo-ryu happo-biken jutsu

The theme this three day Taikai was Shindenfudo-ryu happo-biken jutsu. Hatsumi Soke taught one basic technique each day with lots of details and many variations.

Hibari (also known as Unjaku) was taught the first day, first the basic form, many details and many variations. Unarmed and also with Hanbo (short stick), Naginata (halberd), and the big Shindenfudo-ryu sword. One hour teaching on Hibari on this DVD.

Setsuyaku was taught the second day, basic form, many details and variations. Unarmed and also with, Naginata (halberd), and the big Shindenfudo-ryu sword. He also taught the basic way of striking in Shindenfudo-ryu. One hour teaching on Setsuyaku on this DVD.

Musan was taught the last day, basic form, many details and variations. One hour teaching on Musan on this DVD.

190 minutes playing time. only NTSC system, we will also include a slide show with pictures from this Taikai

Juttejutsu & Taijutsu

The main theme this three day Taikai was Juttejutsu and Taijutsu

Taijutsu: Soke taught break falling, rolling, stretching, throws, counters, kicking, striking and much much more.
Soke opened the Taikai and said that now that we have progressed so far he will start teaching us for real. So he started with the basics such as break falling and rolling, later going over some stretching exercises. There is not many videos out there where he teach basics like this. He did of course also teach us more advanced stuff as usual, good understand play manner.

Juttejutsu: Hatsumi Soke taught how to use the Jutte for defence against unarmed attacks and various weapons such as sword, staffs for example.

He also taught muto-dori, sword, naginata and many other weapons.

240 minutes playing time
Two DVD disc set
NTSC system / Region free
Hatsumi Soke speaks in Japanese and Navon Shihan translates in to English, no sub titles

Instructors: Fredrik Markgren, Arvid Karlsson, Maria Eneroth, Patrik Johansson, Mats Hjelm, Roger Mattsson, Kent T, Daniel Bodin.

Theme: Reflections of this years Bujinkan theme, Shindenfudo-ryu daken taijutsu

Many instructors from Sweden went to Japan to train with Hatsumi Soke and the Shihan. Many of these instructors came to share their knowledge and feelings from their training trips.

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden December 2006

Format: DVD/R- which plays on all computers using and ordinary DVDRom. It also plays on most DVD players (check your manual!).

120 Minutes playing time top quality, available in NTSC only.

Language: The instructions is in Swedish!

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