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Tanren#02 SANSHIN NO KATA TRAINING DRILLS with MATS HJELM

budoshopJune 28, 2013

: 73 minutes, (h.264 M4V/MP4 360p)
791 Mb for $19.99

鍛錬 Tanren (training, forging, hardening, drilling) is a set of videos with simple repetitive training drills, do your work out Bujinkan style – SHUT UP AND TRAIN!

This is the second in a series of SHUT UP AND TRAIN videos guaranteed to make you sweat. If you don’t like getting sweaty during training, then this video is not for you. This DVD is for practitioners who want to learn new training drills which might speed up their skill level if really practiced.

It can also be a very good work out that will get you sweaty. Some exercises is easy and some is more difficult, some you can work out on your own and some you need a training partner.

The theme is Sanshin no Kata, and Hiken/Hoken Juroppo. Watch the video to give you some ideas and then SHUT UP AND TRAIN!

Recorded in Stockholm August 2007

The video below is from Tanren-01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQu_JbAp3Fs

About the instructor

Mats Hjelm started training in Bujinkan for the first time around 1983, but it wasn’t until 1986 he had the opportunity to start training more seriously under a Shidôshi. He attends around 20 seminars, go to Japan 2-3 times every year. Since he started training he never had a training break. He takes his budo training very seriously! If you want to sponsor a seminar or course, please don’t hesitate to contact him. For more information see his web site http://www.kesshi.com

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Tanren#01 KIHON HAPPO TRAINING DRILLS with MATS HJELM

budoshopJune 28, 2013

From Budoshop by budoshop

: 84 minutes, (h.264 M4V/MP4 360p)
865 Mb for $19.99

鍛錬 Tanren (training, forging, hardening, drilling) is a set of videos with simple repetitive training drills, do your work out Bujinkan style – SHUT UP AND TRAIN!

This is the first in a series of SHUT UP AND TRAIN videos guaranteed to make you sweat. If you don’t like getting sweaty during training, then this video is not for you. This DVD is for practitioners who want to learn new training drills which might speed up their skill level if really practiced.

It can also be a very good work out that will get you sweaty. Some exercises is easy and some is more difficult, some you can work out on your own and some you need a training partner.

The theme is Kihon Happo, and many kicking techniques. Watch the video to give you some ideas and then SHUT UP AND TRAIN!

Recorded in Stockholm July 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQu_JbAp3Fs

About the instructor

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Shugyou#02 KERI NI TAISUKU WAZA with MATS HJELM

budoshopMay 31, 2013

From Budoshop by budoshop

: 54 minutes (H.264, 360p)
22 p manual, 658 Mb for $19.99
Available as download or DVD

Shugyou, in-depth training and study material. Including video and manual

The video is 54 minutes and the first section covers 20 Keri Waza (kicking techniques) from the Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu system.

The other section of this video covers 11 Keri ni taisuku waza counter techniques against kicking attacks from the Ten Ryaku no Maki.

The manual is in Swedish, the instructions on the DVD are in English! The Manual covers 20 basic kicking techniques, 11 counter techniques. The manual is 22 pages with 68 pictures.

Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden October 2003

Sample clip

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Sanshin: Body & Mind Are Unity

kumafrApril 30, 2013

From Shiro Kuma's Weblog by kumafr

Saino Tamashii Utsuwa

In the year 2009 the theme was 才能魂器 ”saino konki” or “saino tamashii utsuwa”. It just occurred to me today that this sanshin is in fact the essence of the tenchijin. The true Sanshin!

These three words can have the following meanings: ability, soul, container. If we understand easily the meanings of ability and soul, the container, until today, was limited for me to the space in which the encounter is taking place.

But what if in fact if this utsuwa is also defining the body. I think that both (space and body) are correct, but here I want to dwell a little more on this new understanding of the body being the container.

When we study the martial arts, we often come down to the sentence “body and mind are one”. If we assume that this “body/mind” which is not duality but unity, is in fact the expression of a superior inyo (yinyang); then this inyo can be the “ten” and the “chi”. And therefore it is quite logical to see 才能 saino (ability) as “jin”, making the saino konki the Sanshin of tenchijin. Strangely (or not) this is the theme sensei had chosen when he asked the high ranks to teach again the tenchijin to the new generations of bujinkan students.

In the “demon’s sermon on the martial arts”, Issai Chozanshi writes: “there is no form to principle, and principle’s function manifests itself according to the vessel. If there is no vessel, you will not see the principle.” Sensei has been teaching natural movement for years now and many of us are still caught into a dualistic view of the techniques. But since the beginning, Sensei is speaking of “principles” and he uses the “techniques” only to make it easy for us to grasp the true essence of martial arts.

Chozanshi adds later that “when the mind and the form become two, you will be unable to act with freedom”. And this is exactly what happened to us many times.

The Bujinkan is a superior martial art as it forces us to unite both our spirit and body in order to be able to express life in any occasion. Now, and this is what I understood this morning, when the “vessel” (body) is fully united with the 魂 ”tamashii” (soul); when there is no thinking to analyse; when the natural mix of body and mind is achieved, then true 才能 saino (ability) can be expressed with no obstruction.

Don’t think! repeats sensei occasionally. Our permanent thinking process is killing us. And we think mainly because we didn’t forge the best vessel (body/mind) possible. We think because our bodies are unable to react as a result of a lack of work and training.

The Bujinkan has everything, all the tools we need to excel. But in order to be able of doing the “no form” we first have to master the waza form correctly. Each waza exists for a reason, and it is by repeating it over and over, and for many years, that at some point it gets into yourself. You don’t think the form anymore because your body/mind reacts by itself.

But these waza are useless if you do not have strong basics. And these basics were also given to us by sensei with the tenchijin.

Once the tenchijin has been mastered; once the waza have been absorbed by the body/mind unit, nothing can obstruct its free expression.

The utsuwa (container) intimately fusioned with the tamashii (soul) is the reason to our saino (ability).

Train hard in your basics, train hard in your forms and one day all the principles will be yours. There is no shortcut to 俊shû (excellence), it only demands time and effort. Body and mind being united, 流れ nagare (flow) is created, there is no thinking only 気付き kizuki (awareness). Body and mind united are 1. Sanshin is 1.

There is no thinking anymore because there is no reason to think as we only flow naturally with the situation.

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JIN RYAKU NO MAKI (v1.5) with MATS HJELM

budoshopJune 20, 2011

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: 64 minutes, 782 Mb for $14.99

This 62 minute video is from a seminar with Mats Hjelm teaching at the Kaigozan Dojo in June 2011. On this video he teaches the Bujinkan Dojo Budo Taijutsu fundamentals. This is the third and last part from his Mudansha Guide, or more known as Jin Ryaku no Maki (the third part of Ten-Chi-Jin Ryaku no Maki). He taught…

Suwari kata : Five techniques from a sitting position.

Katate-dori kata : Five techniques from a one hand grab situation.

Ryote-dori kata : Seven techniques against two handed grab situations.

Haibu-yoru kata : Five techniques from grabs from behind.

Tsuki-uchi kata : Nine techniques from a punching situation.

Keri ni taisuru ukemi kata : Five techniques from kicking attacks.

Tsuki to keri ni taisuru ukemi kata : Four techniques from striking and kicking attacks.

Nage kaeshi kata : Nine techniques from throwing attempts.

Tonso kata: Three release, attack and escaping forms.

Muto-dori kata: Four techniques from knife and sword attacks.

All these 56 techniques is shown 2-3 times from different angles and explained shortly. This was filmed outside and it is sometimes difficult to hear what is said, but the way Mats teaches is very easy to understand by body language, so don’t worry about that. The instructions is all in English.