Andre asked me about the Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu schools and whether I teach them. The answer is yes. The 9 schools of the Bujinkan are akin to martial arts university courses, there is a great deal of prerequisite martial arts knowledge before the kata of the individual schools can even be attempted. In simple terms, as I demonstrated last night, if the attacker (uke) can't attack effectively, the one completing the technique doesn't need to go out of his way to do the kata, because he can do something simpler. Before I joined the Bujinkan, I had 10 years of Judo under my belt. You will find with many of the older Bujinkan members that they had significant martial arts training already, which served as a solid foundation. The issue with this is, if I only allowed well trained martial artists to join I wouldn't have any students. Realistically, 90% of people who want to train will have no training, and that is something I need to work with. Unfortunately, throwing people w...
