The Thursday sessions will take a break until the new year. They will resume on the 5th January.
Until then – happy holidays!
Soke mentioned that this year we should be looking at taking the fingers, eyes and heart of the opponent. As if they were wearing yoroi.
I’m constantly amazed training at the shitennou sessions in Japan. Their sense of distance/flow/timing confuses, disrupts and surprises. Having that fine sensitivity to punch under my nose just enough to make me react with minimal pain and without injury is a sign of how well they can control their own movement.
And if we can’t control our own movement, how can we be sensitive enough to flow with or direct someone else’s?
One of the guys from the lion dojo is going to start sessions on Tuesdays after the CNY festivities. These classes will be near Tanjong Pagar and not at dance arts.
Hopefully you will not have had too many pineapple tarts to attend.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote that, in order to become really good at something, you have to do it for ten thousand hours. ’The 10,000 Hour Rule’.
I calculated that if you only train once a week for an hour and a half, it would take you over one hundred and twenty-eight years to become an expert.
So please take this extra opportunity to train.
Those interested in Tuesday sessions can contact walkinsafety@gmail.com for further details.
The Chinese new year falls on the 3rd of February, which is a thursday.
There will be no training on this day!
Also there will be a change in training times.
As from the 17th of February onwards the sessions will be starting at 20:30 ending at 22:00
Have a great festive period!
We’ve started sessions again and hope to see new as well as regular people again.
I’m looking forward to seeing one of our guys setting up his own session – about time 
Also looking forward to sessions with the other dojo in Singapore.
Enjoy your training!
Hi all,
Just to inform you that we’re taking a break from training at the dojo (but hopefully not from training by other means) from now until the new year. The Thursday night training will re-commence on the 6th of January.
The new year will see opportunities to train on additional days.
The theme for next year will be ‘Kihon Happou’.
I’m really looking forward to the next year. A gut feeling is telling me to visit Japan sooner than planned.
Happy holidays to all and have a fantastic new year!
My brain seems to have finished defragmenting after the previous trip to japan (and I’m pretty sure some files were lost along way). It was an interesting trip.
I attended a lot of Someya Sensei classes. As is the year’s theme, we trained with the idea of tachi. Also with a bit of yari and naginata thrown in (I wonder if the Singapore MRT network would have a problem with me carting my wooden ones about on their trains?).
One thing that he said stuck in my mind. Kihon, and how we must really make sure we get our foundation right. Some people call the kihon ‘basics’ and I worry that this gives the wrong impression. IMO, the translation suits the words ‘foundation’ and ‘basis‘ better. He said a lot of people talk about doing henka and said:
‘Henka of what?’
If we don’t work on our foundation and its principles, how can we do a variation based on them?
Watching the godan test at the hombu one day was interesting. Soke encouraged the visiting shihan to really cut down for the test and not to stop at the tip of the head. The importance of rolling was also mentioned. It was also asked by a shihan if all the people sitting the test were already yon-dan. I watched a lot of people have future opportunities to pass.
An interesting trip which turned my brain to soup. Hopefully I can return for second helpings much sooner this time.
Alex Bradley will be leading a training session this Saturday the 13th from 10am until 2pm in Singapore near orchard road.
If you’re interested in attending please contact us for details on bujinkansingapore@gmail.com
Hopefully we will be covering bokken and jo.
