The kanji of the title is TenSai.\u00a0 It means genius, prodigy or someone with a natural gift.\u00a0 I have heard this used in a martial arts to describe many people over the years. Gichin Funakoshi, Kyuzo Mifune and Morihei Ueshiba to name a few.<\/p>\n
There is an idolization of men like these in their respective arts.\u00a0 You will often here in the more \u2018modern\u2019 martial arts that no one is or will ever be as good as the founder.\u00a0 They were a type of genius that we were lucky to witness and will never see again.\u00a0 So as it follows the next generation is always weaker than the last (in a Japanese sense of strength not physical power).<\/p>\n
The Bujinkan is not like that.\u00a0 We are in a living art.\u00a0 If one of those TenSai can accomplish in 1 day that which takes us a month, it doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 We stand on the shoulders of 34 recorded generations and over 1000 years pushing us forward.\u00a0 If we use the strength that we have inherited from those people who have gone before us passed down teacher to student we can rely on their knowledge.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t have to rely on our own natural ability; we don\u2019t have to have the knack for the martial arts.\u00a0 If you could just win as a natural fighter, there would be no need for the martial arts.\u00a0 If every generation could never be as good as the last then in a few generations there would be no point in taking the martial art.\u00a0 An art that holds those who have gone before in high regard is good, because you can use their experience to help you progress.\u00a0 There must however be balance with the experience, which you receive and add to the martial art to help the next generation.<\/p>\n
Oh and to get the training, you have to go see a true Genius of the martial arts, Hatsumi Sensei.\u00a0 He will get you where you need to be.\u00a0 No books, scrolls or DVDs will get you the knowledge you need; Sensei and those who actively train with him are the only sources for this knowledge of the Bujinkan arts.\u00a0 There you go a post by request, you\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The kanji of the title is TenSai.\u00a0 It means genius, prodigy or someone with a natural gift.\u00a0 I have heard this used in a martial arts to describe many people over the years. Gichin Funakoshi, Kyuzo Mifune and Morihei Ueshiba to name a few. There is an idolization of men like these in their respective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}