Had another great training session tonight. We had a new member train with us for the first time this evening. We began with some dakentaijutsu and taisabaki for a warm up, then worked through omote gyaku, and ura gyaku. We spent some time working on omote gyaku ken sabaki and some henka of that technique. We finished off the evening with hoteki no waza from the koto ryu koppojutsu. Great night with some great training.

Today we reviewed the 2nd kyu testing materials in its entirety, we also worked on some of the deeper aspects of the Omote Gyaku as well as some of the variations to the technique. Great training all of us learned a great deal.

Back in Washington and training with the Trinity Bujinkan Training group tonight. We worked on some of the things learned while I was training down in California. We reviewed some of the kihon happo, specifically oni kudaki, muso dori, and jumonji no kata. We discussed some deeper principles of training as well as some variations of drills for Randori that may help sharpen awareness skills outside of the formal dojo environment.

While on vacation I had the privilege of training with the Azusa Bujinkan Dojo. I had a great time meeting and training with them. We reviewed some fundamental kihon happo techniques that needed some minor tweaks as well as some advanced choking applications which include hon jime, gyaku jime and sankaku jime.

Many thanks to Shidoshi Clum and all of his students for the great training opportunity.

Back to training, worked on Oni Kudaki, Omote Gyaku ken sabaki, and Hone gyaku. Reviewed the finishing pins from last training and continued on with hanbo techniques

Took a week off from training but I was able to pick up a copy of Soke Hatsumi's newest book, The Complete Ninja, great read so far, highly recommend

Well Dusted the mats off and went back to indoor training, no video of tonight's work. Focused more on oni kudaki, and the advanced hanbo techniques from last week. Also work on some finishing pins like go dai ichi and take ori.

Training Day !!! Well Last outdoor training day of the summer, by 730 it was pretty dark so it will be indoors till spring ! Worked on Omote and Ura Oni Kudaki, and some advanced hanbo techniques from the Kukishiden Ryu. Video coming soon !

Training Day

Another Great Training Day, The weather in Olympia, Washington has been great all summer long. We will be working with the Tanto for the next few months and did some introductory training against basic knife attacks with evasions and disarms. Reviewed the Sanshin No Kata, as well as Hon gyaku, and a henka of omote gyku.

Awesome Training today, we had a new guest join us this evening but it was definitely a schedule conflict since one of ours members was going over his test material. But other than that all was well. We reviewed all of the 8th kyu material and test requirements and reviewed some basic taihenjutsu, and taisabaki. Loving these last few days of summer. I have a feeling the weather will be coming soon and we will back to indoor training for the winter.

Best Ice Bucket Challange Yet !

Rener Gracie performs the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in a Gracie Breakdown. As usual it is pretty funny

Guess what? Training day - Today was great training, we started out by leaping in with both feet to the kihon happo. We have been studying various aspects of omote gyaku over the last few months and really had some great randori in training with it today, we covered static omote, grabbing from a punch and the wrist escape version. We then trained in Shito no Waza from the Shoden no Gata scroll of the Koto Ryu Koppojutsu which includes defense of a hon jime (collar choke) a koppo ken to the kasumi (temple) and a omote gyaku to the ground. It was great training in that everyone did a great job and was very fluid with the technique after the last few months of training.  No video for today :(

Metamoris 4 !!! is today check it out at the link below and stream live for some awesome no points submissions only jiu jitsu. After watching it my favorite match was Saulo Ribiero v. Roderigo Medeiros, reminded me of an old school judo match as they were in full gi and a majority of the match was grip fighting while standing with a few amazing throws.

Training Day - Had some great training today and I actually remembered to set up the video camera to record some of it, I will post the clip below in a few days when I finish editing. We also had a new person join us so we reviewed some of the Bujinkan basics including ukemi and taihenjutsu rolling, Safety First ! We then went to some dakentaijutsu with the kiten ken omote shuto and then practiced the sui no kata from the sanshin no kata. From there moved to kihon happo and the basics forms of ichimonji no kata and omote gyaku, and finished up with the omote tehodoki wrist escape. Full day but great training.

Training day !! Today we went over all of the 3rd kyu material and one of us took the third kyu test. The test went really well a big thanks goes out to all who helped in the training. Material for 3rd kyu includes sword Kamae, but we also practiced kaitens with a sword as a bonus, the Nage Waza portion was great as well, love all of the variation of the base ganseke nage. We also had some great henka of omote gyaku which included executing he technique from a punch and outside circular movements.