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Recently we had a run in with Rugby Police after Jamie purchased some knives online. I will try and explain this in full as it’s quite complicated and I keep having to repeat myself about the situation. On the 26/07/2023 I purchased a collection of knives off of someone on Facebook and went and collected a box full of about 60 knives, some Nunchaku and a few bowie knives. Upon getting the box home I started going through the knives and found two that I knew were illegal under the Offensive Weapons Act so I told the people I was...

Ninja Juhakkei were often studied along with the Bugei Juhappen (the 18 samurai fighting art skills). Though some techniques were used in the same way by both samurai and ninja, others were utilized differently by the two warriors. The 18 disciplines are as follows: Seishin Teki Kyōyō – Spiritual RefinementThe Togakure Ryu Ninja worked at developing a deep and accurate understanding of himself, his personal power, his strengths and weaknesses, and his influence on the playing out of life. The Ninja had to be very clear about his intentions, his commitments and his personal motivations in life. Personality traits could often mean the difference between...

The grading system in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu differs by comparison to other conventional martial arts that operate by presenting students with different colored belts with each grade acheived. In the Bujinkan we operate on a system of Wappen (Patches) and Hoshi (Stars) to make it easy to understand at a quick glance what grade someone is. Most traditional schools of martial arts would present a student with a white belt and then through years of training in the Dojo it would eventually become a black belt, the concept of colored belts is a very western concept popularized by Karate, Judo and...

Each year Soke Hatsumi selects a subject which is the primary focus for training that year, here is the list of subjects covered in previous years. 2016 – “42” – The beginning of a new 42 year cycle, commemorating the 42 year anniversary of the passing of Takamatsu Sensei and the beginning of a new 42 year cycle. Arnaud Coursegue the Shitenno for France explains it as Sokes way of telling us that starting next year, Soke is going to leave the future of the Bujinkan to us. He is doing what Takamatsu did for him in 1971 when he...

Here is a list of some useful Japanese phrases that you will encounter in the Dojo: Shiko – Walking in Suwari GataMigi – RightHidari – LeftOmote – OutsideUra – InsideJodan – HighChudan – MiddleGedan – LowUke – Instigator or training partnerTori – Responder​Ichi – OneNi – TwoSan – ThreeShi – FourGo – FiveRokku – SixShichi – SevenHachi – EightKu – NineJu – TenJu Ichi – ElevenJu Ni – TwelveJu San – ThirteenJu Shi – FourteenJu Go – FifteenEtc. until Ni Ju – Twenty, Ni Ju Ichi – Twenty One, Ni Ju Ni – Twenty Two, and so on. 100 being Hyaku....