We have restarted our curriculum cycle.\u00a0 As I have mentioned before we are going from 4th kyu to shodan.\u00a0 This will be new to a lot of the students as it will be new to me teaching the material.\u00a0 For the longest time I have been going over the lower level kyus (higher number kyus) to get the basic movements ingrained in (y)our bodies.\u00a0 Now it is time to get the higher level concepts integrated in your movement.<\/p>\n
Many of the techniques which you will study over the next few months are going to be techniques you have seen before, I will just spend a lot more time on the details of how these techniques work so that you can become creative with their application.<\/p>\n
I will warn you in advance, in the Bujinkan Shodan is not a big deal.\u00a0 In Japan as a whole shodan is not a big deal.\u00a0 It literally means lower rank.\u00a0 It is more of an indication of dedication rather than proficiency.\u00a0 As soon as you forget that conversations like “That person does not deserve that rank” or “We have a more stringent grading than everyone else” come up.\u00a0 This is not the correct approach.\u00a0 As soon as you get the idea that because you are associated with a certain way of doing things gives you a sense of pride, you have lost the point.\u00a0 The rank doesn’t matter as long as you can survive.<\/p>\n
If you are in a fight and have a shodan under a stringent curriculum but still lose it means nothing.\u00a0 What is important is that you learn the feeling that Hatsumi sensei is trying to convey.\u00a0 Once you have that feeling everything else will fall into place.<\/p>\n
Your life is on the line, train well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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