Bujinkan Estonia
What can I expect?
The atmosphere is relaxed and flexible, mostly to avoid injuries, but commitment and focus is expected. You will experience aches, pain, bruises on body and ego. You need to be attacked not only physically, but also mentally, to remove delusions of grandeur so you can get the full benefit of learning. Not everyone can accept this! Expect your opponent(s) to be good, so be humble and prepared.
There
are no short cuts! If your goal is to learn to hurt people
fast, we recommend you do not train, or find another martial
art.
If your goal is to learn to improve your life and get a
fighting chance, you need to spend years doing so. A trainer can
help you refine your skills faster, but he can not train for
you, or give you “secret” techniques that will win you any
fight. Lots of training will give you physical advantage, but I
will not substitute experience and knowledge. That is why this
martial art seems to become even more efficient with the age of
the practitioner.
When the basic training gets adapted by your body over the years, you will begin to move in your own way. This body language we call Taijutsu and is a natural way of moving. This is the way to our definite goal of becoming fully natural in our movements and without predetermined thought (just reacting to the situation).
How we run the dojo
If you are interested, you may come for
a trail period. First lesson is free.
A trail period is for the person to figure out if Bujinkan Ninpo Taijutsu suits him/her, as well as for the trainer to examine the person to see if he/she is able to train with a committed attitude.
If the trail is completed the person becomes a
student, and begins training for a black belt. Black belts can
be viewed as a successful completion of the basic training, and
where the real training starts. We use the instructions for what
the basics should include by Arneaud Cousergue and Bujinkan
France. The student will also get a membership card for the
Japanese Honbu Dôjô (Sôkes dôjô), which allows him/her to train
in Japan.
Next, the black belt needs to train for his/her 5th dan to become an instructor, hopefully opening a dôjô of his/her own to continue developing.
Sôke says we only need good people in Bujinkan. So it is not the goal of the dojo to earn a lot of money by having a lot of students, but to have good people and students who the trainer can use his energy on improving.
