Courage is better than skills
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Courage is more important than skills, if you don’t have courage to use your skills, what’s the point?
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Courage is more important than skills, if you don’t have courage to use your skills, what’s the point?
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Courage is more important than skills, if you don’t have courage to use your skills, what’s the point?
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This summer like most summers we train a lot more with long weapons since the dojo is too small to really use long weapons properly. This summer we train Bojutsu against Kenjutsu (long staff against sword). I think I teach and train a little different than most Bujinkan teachers out there, but I can’t really say maybe there is those who approach the training like I do. Let me explain.
First of all you learn how to use the staff, spinning and striking etc, this is mostly solo-training. Then you learn the Keiko Sabaki Kata (movement practice techniques) in my dojo we only practice one technique for the whole two hour class. Some students really have problems with coordination, others capture it quicker. In this first step I don’t mention distance, timing or anything except which strikes and blocks to make. This can also be solo-training and done alone against an imagined opponent.
Second I take the sword and we focus on how to handle the situation the best way with a sword. If he is attacking me with the staff I immediately counter him by stepping forward. I’m not gonna step backwards defending myself all the time, when he steps in to strike me in his preferred distance out of my reach; I boldly step in at the same time and block the staff and get even closer into my preferred distance so I can cut him with the sword. As I see it this is the only chance I have against a longer weapon, there is no point of running backwards.
Thirdly I take the staff again. I attack the kenjutsu-ka fully (not really, but almost) and make sure he does a good block, and as he block I don’t stay frozen or try to push harder on him. As I strike I’m already prepared for the next movement when he comes in and try to cut me, I move out to my distance and do the next strike.
Then I take the sword again and try to avoid being hit from this point in the technique, by blocking and countering again. I’m not really gonna give up or run away. If I can cut I will cut.
Then again I take the staff and try to deal with this really difficult opponent, I avoid his cut and counter him until the end of the technique where I make it impossible for him to do anything. Then the technique is finished without changing the sequences of the strikes, the only thing that is flexible is the distance and the timing. And this is where the true training comes in.
Then at the end of the class we record a short demo to video which will be available for download later. This is how we spend our two hour trainings at Kaigozan Dojo this summer.
No henka, no variations, true to the technique.
I always thought quality is better than quantity. It is amazing how cleverly these techniques is made up, it is so much more than executing the strikes rapidly against a rather passive opponent. If the opponent (sword-guy) is good and understand how to use the sword there is really not many options to change the technique and do something different, the possibility for henka becomes very narrow, what you can change is very small details. For me this is what henka means, you failed your initial technique and need to adapt because of miscalculation.
I know there are those out there only doing henka-training, but how do you do henka training only, henka of what? If you try to train yourself into intuition without basic foundation you are doing something I don’t understand. You weren’t born out from nowhere, someone did something very basic with someone and you was born. How do you henka anything into existence?
If anyone is interesting I’m doing three more one day Bojutsu mini-seminars this summer.
Happy Training!
/Mats
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LÄGRET ÄR FULLBOKAT! VÄLKOMMEN PÅ NÄSTA LÄGER, ANMÄL DIG I TID!
Temat för detta läger är handhavande av Kniv och Pistol, självförsvar, taktik och teknik med mera. För fyra år sedan hade vi ett mycket uppskattat träningsläger med samma tema. Dean kommer att upprepa och bygga på det han instruerade förra lägret.
Dean var i Japan i September och tränade tre gånger om dagen med Hatsumi Soke och Shihan. Soke använde Dean som Uke varje träning för att låta honom känna den rätta känslan, det var mycket smärtsamt och givande. Soke gav också Dean ett diplom kallat “Bufu Ikkan”, detta är ett diplom som Hatsumi Soke endast delar ut till sina top elever. Soke bad Dean att instruera många gånger denna resa, och förklara för alla. Hatsumi Soke har sett värdet i de kunskaper Dean håller vid liv och ber honom att föra de vidare till oss andra som oftast tränar endast i en skyddad dojo. Detta var förmodligen också anledningen till att Dean fick denna utmärkelse.
Temat för detta seminarium kommer att vara SHINKEN KATA TAIJUTSU (verklig kamp), KNIV och PISTOL. Dean kommer att inkludera all sin erfarenhet och lära ut äkta Ninpo stridskonst från träningar med Hatsumi Soke i Japan, sin tid som Polis, som medlem av SJP Alpha och SPECWOG (SPECcial Warriors Operation Group) med mera. Det kommer onekligen bli ett fantastiskt läger, missa det inte!
Deans Födelsedags fest med Noguchi Shihan, Hatsumi Soke och Kan Shihan
Observera att vi har begränsat antal platser! De 25 första som anmäler sig och betalar har en garanterad plats. Anmäl dig nu och betala för att ha din plats garanterad!
Anmälan: Anmäl dig här (öppnas i nytt fönster)!
Kostnad: 800 SEK för båda dagarna eller 600 SEK för en dag. Betalas in på PG 310 765-3 senast 21:a oktober därefter kontant på lägret om plats finnes, anmäl dig först!
Plats: I Kaigozan Dojo, Albygatan 117 i Sundbyberg. Observera att ingången är runt uteserveringen en trappa ner!
Tider: Lördag kl 11:00-17:00, Söndag kl 10:00-16:00 (ca tider), exakta tider meddelas i början av oktober.
Anmälan på Facebook är för skojs skull, inget vi tar på allvar!
Vi rekommenderar att ni tar med en träningskniv och pistolatrapp. OBS! Inga skarpa vapen tillåts!
Dean är känd för att vara praktisk och effektiv när det gäller tekniker som ska fungera i verklig kamp, i strid som självförsvar. Dean har tränat budo i över 35 år, han är en före detta Polis och medlem i SJP (Special Police Force – SWAT) i Kroatien. Dean driver numera SPECWOG och är också huvudinstruktör, hand grundade också Tactical Technic Combat System T.T.C.S. För hans fulla resume se dessa hemsidor, Bujinkan i Kroatien och SPECWOG.
Läs här om det förra Kniv och Pistol lägret vi hade med Dean för fyra år sedan. Här är en artikel från lägret för två år sedan. KAIGOZAN BUDO SHOP har DVD från alla tidigare läger, klicka på bilden här bredvid så kommer du till förra Kniv och Pistol lägrets DVD eller här för alla andra filmer med Dean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYy84i6Qhdk
Dean Rostohar from Croatia just returned from another trip to Japan. Hatsumi Soke asked him many times to teach a new technique for Soke to expand on. Soke almost always ask one of the most senior Shihan’s attending to teach the beginning technique. Soke asked Dean to do this many times this trip, he also did this many times in the past. What do you think this means? Why do Soke pick someone to demonstrate a technique that he can work on? I think he does this once or twice with most of the Shihan coming for a short training trip out of courtecy, he is a gentleman after all. But when he asks a particular Shihan more than a couple of times it must mean something else to, right?
So I think that when Hatsumi Soke asks Dean to teach a technique in practically all trainings that he attends, that Soke thinks that Dean have something important to teach and share.
I write this message because it is only one month left to our seminar with Dean Shihan, and we have so few people signed up, that I’m thinking about cancelling!!!
Maybe Soke didn’t say explicitly that you should go to his seminars. Many times people seem to be very bad understanding signs. Many people need things in writing, or a word to understand. It is actually what someone do that is important and have a true meaning. I think this is especially true for the Japanese culture and that we all should come to understand better.
…And now you have the chance to train with Dean for a whole weekend, don’t pass that by!
http://kaigozan.se/seminars/2010-06-12/
Happy training!
/Mats…
From Kabutoshimen by Toryu
In September 2009 Bujinkan Kaigōzan dōjō SSIF in Stockholm, Sweden hosted a seminar with Dean Rostohar, Shihan from Bujinkan Croatia.
First I would like to say thanks to Dean Rostohar for coming to us once again, this was the 4′th time we had him over here. Also special thanks to Davor, Hana and Ivica who travelled by car all the way from Croatia just to come here to train and assist their own teacher! Also big thanks to René coming from the Netherlands and Jukka coming from Finland. Also thanks to Tony for helping with transportation and stuff, and Johan for taking pictures and filming the seminar. Finally also thanks to the participants from Kaigozan Dojo, To Nan dojo, Solstaden Karlstad, Eskilstuna Bujinkan, Örebro Kampsportsförening and Berserk MMA.
This was a very good seminar where Dean taught and showed us many, many good and useful techniques and examples from his personal experience. First I felt quite ashamed that I couldn’t get more people interested enough to show up on the seminar. Then I felt pity for the fools that missed the chance to get really good training, what did you do this weekend that was so important? Seriously, I don’t want to hear all bad excuses, let’s leave it at that I’m sure you can convince me you had good reasons .
As always Dean teach from his big heart, you who have been to his trainings know what I mean. The first day he did techniques based on the first technique Ichimonji from Kihon happo kata. But it was different than what he showed before, more realistic and useful. Although he never said that the basics is bad to know or practice, but the basics is basics to teach students a foundation to build up on. When you know the basics well you combine each basic movement to the situation, and it comes alive. You do what you have to do to benefit from the situation. He showed many different taijutsu techniques this weekend.
In the afternoon training Dean and his students from Croatia showed many interesting techniques and team tactics how to work in a group, everything from quickly climbing up over a wall, or in to a window. How to take out a guard and many other examples how to work as a team.
The second day Davor started by showing and teaching his excellent taihenjutsu skills, he did some of the best taihenjutsu moves I have ever seen. He was rolling smoothly and silently like a cat moves, very nice! Then Dean taught more taijutsu techniques from Kihon-happo. Then later on he showed us how to train up the sensitivity, and then he moved on to some sword techniques. Finally he showed and explained to us how to train while blindfolded.
The KGZ BUDO SHOP have many DVD’s with Dean Rostohar. This seminar DVD will be available for order in October 2009, shortly after there will be three more DVD’s with Dean released at KGZ BUDO SHOP. Here is a direct link to the Shinken Kata videos… https://www.budoshop.se/store/videos/dvd-bujinkan-budo-taijutsu/shinken-kata
Happy training!
Mats Hjelm (seminar organizer, dojo-cho at Kaigozan Dojo)
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From Kabutoshimen by Toryu
Now it is less than a week until the Ninpo/Ninjutsu Seminar with Dean Rostohar. Here is some updates and news…
Dean is coming on Friday already, but we have no extra training planned. Dean is also bringing some of his top students with him this time, so I’m sure they will also help him with the teaching. This will be an exciting seminar, he will teach lot’s of stuff we usually don’t see in the trainings in a regular Bujinkan Dojo.
For more information about this seminar see this web site… http://kaigozan.se/seminars/2009-09-26/…
The theme for this seminar will be NINPO/NINJUTSU and SHINKEN KATA. Dean will bring together and teach true Ninpo combat from his experience of trainings in Japan with Hatsumi Soke. And also his personal experience as a Police Officer, from the Croatian civil war as a member of the SJP Alpha, and SPECWOG (SPECcial Warriors Operation Group).
Dean has been practicing Martial Arts for 35 years, he is a former Police officer a member of the SJP Alpha (Special Police Force – SWAT) in Croatia. Dean Rostohar is Director, Chief instructor of SPECWOG and a founder of Tactical Technic Combat System T.T.C.S. For his full resume, check out his web site or the SPECWOG web site.
For more information about this great seminar, go to this web site and please sign up early!
http://www.kaigozan.se/seminars/2009-09-26/