Bujinkan Meehan Dojo News & Events
News and events at the Bujinkan Meehan Dojo in Dublin, Ireland

10 Oct 2008 at 1:00pm
Class: Thursday 9th Oct The class began with some dynamic throws and locks based on grab/punch combos. Within them we saw how to interupt uke’s ukemi by  kicking, striking, changing their intended direction, throwing awkwardly etc Tori’s postion was such that a change in position could be taken if the need arises, say from a secondary attacker [...]
7 Oct 2008 at 3:35pm
Class: Monday 6th Oct I kicked off class with Ichimonji no Kata henka based on “earlier” timing. Alex took over and introduced some Kihon practice with a kicking drill that looked at various kicks given to us by the Happo Geri of the Ten Chi Jin no Maki. This led into all sort of [...]
3 Oct 2008 at 3:07pm
Class: Thursday Oct 2nd Our taijutsu has a fundamental component of trying to upset uke’s balance so that they cannot continue the fight on a stable base. Last night’s class looked at various ways of doing this in a flowing non-basic manner. We started off with a punch/kick combination attack. For example….entering the space uke needs [...]
30 Sep 2008 at 3:32pm
Class: Monday 29th Sept We did some counter intuitive forward rolling as taught in Japan recently. After that we did some yoko kaiten within muto dori ukemi gata. The taijutsu we looked at involved taking distance and angles from punches. Being able to detect the wrong angles for uke to recieve and fall into were part of [...]
27 Sep 2008 at 9:55pm
On Saturday October 4th, there will be a one day workshop in Rathgar focusing on kihon waza, or basic techniques. In particular, this workshop will concentrate on the first two books of the Tenchijin Ryaku no Maki, or Scrolls of Heaven, Earth & Man. This is the instructors manual created by Hatsumi Soke in the 1970s. [...]
23 Sep 2008 at 11:15am
Class: Monday 22nd Sept As a warmup we looked at Kihon Happo but added counters using ukemi. All along the strategy of using three points of contact allowed us to control uke easier. We also saw the use of various finger strikes. We then continued looking at the syllabus with a practice of the ryuha kata that [...]
19 Sep 2008 at 11:58am
Class: Thursday 18th Sept We continued with a look at the dojo syllabus. This time we had gyaku waza, sutemi waza, shime waza, striking to counter throws  and hanbo basics. Again it was an overview rather than a detailed study but a good way of looking at the broad range of fundamental techniqes in our art. None of [...]
16 Sep 2008 at 10:35am
Class: Monday 15th Sept Seeing as our teacher is running through a lot of basic syllabus material in Japan according to the reports, I though we’d do the same with our dojo syllabus for a number of reasons: - To expose us to the material, to shine a spotlight on areas of weakness, to train under pressure, to [...]
15 Sep 2008 at 8:29am
Just a quick note from Tokyo to say that I’ll be away for the next week and a bit training at the Bujinkan Hombu Dojo in Japan. In my absence, Ali Martinez Shidoshi will be teaching the Monday and Thursday night sessions in Rathgar, while Shane Duggan Shidoshi-ho  will be teaching on Wednesday evening and [...]
12 Sep 2008 at 5:05pm
Class: Thurs 11th Sept The kihon happo we did was within a randori framework where one just responded to uke’s movement naturally without trying and  have them subtly lead into various un-predetermined locks and strikes, reversals and throws.   We looked at long weapons versus sword with spear and bo. Kamae was all important here as well as dexterity [...]

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