We offer Martial Arts instruction based on Traditional Aikijujutsu, Aikido, Okinawan Karate, and Weapons with emphasis on everyday Self-Defense.
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At The Budokan You Will Experience:
Japanese and Okinawan Martial Arts
The teachings are based in the tenets of traditional martial arts systems and addressed for self defense in today's society.
Utilizing the time honored techniques we provide self defense instruction for men, women and children in a cooperative learning environment.
A Budokan is a Martial Arts training facility that houses a number of arts sharing similar origin or perspective.
Think of it more as a "University" than a "School".
Classes Offered at the Budokan
- Adult Aikido, Aikijujutsu, Adult Karate
- Women's Self-Defense Classes
- Children (Karate and Aikido)
- Adult and Children's Kobujutsu (Weapons)
- Ki and Internal Power Development
Benefits
Self Awareness
Self Respect
Self Defense
Accomplishment
Health and Well Being
Inner Peace and external power
Honor, Loyalty, Rectitude, Benevolence, Veracity, Respect, Courage! (Bushido)
Nami No Michi Kyokai
"The Way of the Wave Association".
This association will be for those that choose to follow the way of the true martial artist and study all of the arts available at the Budokan.
Why waves and water?
As the waves of the ocean are endless and continually shaping the form of the coast with each crash, so shall you change and grow in your study at the Budokan.
Once water stops flowing and becomes stagnant, it can lose its clarity.
A trickle of water over time can carve its way through rock and earth by its tenacity and continuing movement, while a tsunami can be catastrophic in one crash.
The shape and forming of a cresting wave, share a very core value with many techniques and concepts.
Water is essentially formless, but can take the form of any container it is put into...much like a self defense situation, you must be formless until you have a specific situation to address. (Mushin - "Mind of no mind")
What is 'Traditional'?
We are not a koryu style or dojo, but a Gendai system. Gendai systems are those established after the Meiji Restoration (1869). Koryu and Gendai are interconnected and contain Do (way or path) and Jutsu (technique) aspects, share blood lines, but may no longer have direct political ties to those original arts.
Our lineage can be traced to the founding fathers of Daito Ryu, Aikido, Shorin Ryu, Kenjutsu. The oral and physical teachings have been passed down from generation to generation with care not to lose the original essence of the martial ways of those that have gone before.
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