Dear friends, I just created a new website where to find my next seminars for 2016 and 2017.
This year again, I will be travelling a lot.
Tokyo (3 times), Dubai (2 times – UAE), Paris (5 times), Annecy (FR), Bangalore (3 times- IN), Berlin (GER), Gottingen (GER), Budapest (HON), Buenos Aires (ARG), Fortaleza (BR), Bogota (COL), Lugo (SP)…
This list is not complete and more dates will be added soon.
PARIS JULY 11, 12, & 13, 2014
The Yûro Shi Tennô Taikai of Paris is beginning in a few weeks. As for the last 10 years, Pedro, Peter, Sven, and Arnaud will share their understanding of the theme of the year decided by our Sôke in Japan: “Shingin Budô”.
This year we will have 4 training halls instead of 3 as our dôjô has been totally renewed. The system is the same with 4 groups of practitioners divided by ranks in order to meet each level of understanding.
As always, lunches (regular or veggie), t-shirts, and certificates are included in the price. You can sleep for FREE at the dôjô (precise it in the FORM) and do not forget your sleeping bag.
If you register before June 10th you get an immediate discount of 20%. It will then go down to 10%. So if you are planning to join us please don’t wait to register. The prebooking is 68€, the remaining is to be paid on arrival.
Once registered please fill in the FORM in order to help us make a beautiful event for all of you.
We are expecting around 120 practitioners from all over Europe, we are happy to welcome you in Paris for our National Day of July 14th!
We had a 1-day seminar in Bonn last Saturday and we studied the “nagare” or how to put flow into the 1, 2, 3 techniques. It was fun and demanding but I really appreciated this day of training. Firstly because students came not only from Germany, but also from Belgium, Spain*, and India**.
So even though the theme of the year is about “Shingin Budô”, I lived that day as Shining Budô, with the good feeling with which we trained during the 6-hour training day.
Thank you all to have joined us! And I hope to see you again for our next seminar at the Kurage Dôjô in Munich on March 15th-16th***
(a special thank you goes also to the “viking” who suffered (see picture) more than any other participant)
*Ralf is a student of Juan Manuel Serrano but lives near Strasbourg.
** Arjun is a student of Shiva but lives in Berlin for a few months.
***kurage seminar
For the last 10 or more years (I don’t remember exactly) the Bujinkan France is inviting Sveneric Bogsater to the first seminar of the year.
I hope that you will join us this year!
AJC
I teach all over the world so I finally decided to regroup all the information you need if you want to join me for a seminar and fantastic Budô moments.
Click on the picture and you will go straight to the website.
I hope to see you soon in 2014
Watching the nice blue sky through the window, I began to think about the next Yûro Shitennô Paris Taikai next July in Paris.
This seminar have been going on for more than ten years and it has always been a pleasure to welcome you all in our dôjô.
Many of you are already familiar with this extraordinary seminar but I think it is time to explain its origin once again for those of you who aren’t.
Around the year 2003, I was on the phone with Pedro and we were speaking of the “good old days” when the Shi Tennô could meet twice a year for a joint seminar called “Shi Tennô Seminar” (see picture above). But at the turn of the century, these seminars were not organized anymore. Many reasons for that.
First of all, the financial risk of having the 4 Shi tennô for a two days seminar was too big. Second, since our beginning (the first Shi Tennô took place in 1993), many new high rank instructors arrived on the market and there were more seminars available. Today each weekend in a 500km radius, there are at least two or three seminars organized.
Also our personal seminars schedule being so full we had some difficulty putting up a common date together.
Over the phone, we decided to organize it ourselves and this is how the first Paris Taikai was created in 2003. It was such a success that I decided to continue organizing it year after year. This year is the 10th one!
But what is a Paris Taikai?
Until the year 2002, Hatsumi would come to Europe to give three days seminars, they were called Taikai. I attended over 30 Taikai since the first one organized by my friend Peter King. The Paris Taikai was meant to replace the absence of sensei in our countries.
When we decided to organize the Paris Taikai, Sensei approved the idea and called it: “Yûro Shi Tennô Taikai”. Yûro 融朗 means “brightness”but is also a pun with “europa” pronounced by Japanese “yuropa”. Basically this is the Taikai organized by the European Shi Tennô: Peter, Sven, Pedro, and me.
The Paris Taikai follows the same structure as the Taikai of the past where we used to train during three days. But this one is also different as we train in three different dôjô at the same time. Also the group of participants is divided into 4 groups: beginners, intermediates, advanced, shidôshi. We make sure that each group is about the same size.
The Bujinkan France teached in a facility that is made of three dôjô: 1 big dôjô (150 to 200 people) with mats and two smaller ones (around 60-80 m2), one with mats and one with wooden floor. Trainings are conducted in the three dôjô at the same time and each hour teachers and students are changing location.
Each hour one group is taught by one Shi Tennô in the two small dôjô, and two groups (always beginner-intermediate; or advanced-shidôshi) are taught by 2 Shi Tennô in the big dôjô. This is why whatever your technical level you will receive the teaching that you can understand. Many times when you are attending a seminar, the teacher has to teach a certain level. When he is teaching high level, beginners are lost, and conversely when he is teaching basics, the advanced practitioners are bored! This is not happening at the Paris Taikai.
This Taikai is also the chance to meet people from all over the world (there are around 15 to 20 countries attending) and to connect or reconnect with friends from everywhere.
When you register for the Taikai (which is limited to 150 participants) you get:
Also do not forget that this event takes place right during the weekend of the French National day, and Paris is full of laughter, fireworks, drinking, dancing; and the weather is around 30° Celsius.
But if Paris is a nice city to visit in summer; if the techniques demonstrated are done by 4 of the more advanced students of Sensei; above all what you are getting out of such an event is hours of happiness and friendship, and for me this is the most important part of a Taikai. The techniques are always nice but the feeling of belonging to a community is even better. This seminar is Bujinkan at its best!
Places are limited and pre-booking is going very fast this year so if you are interested to join us, please follow the link below:
http://www.budomart.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_PARIS_TAIKAI_36.html
And if you do not come some other Bujinkan member will be happy.
Rokkon Shojo!
In exactly 30 days the Yûro Shi Tenno Taikai of Paris begins!
This year has passed so fast that I am amazed that this is already the time for this major seminar. The Paris Taikai has evolved a lot since its creation back in 2007.
This is a very special seminar that was designed to give a chance to get the « Taikai feeling » of the old days to the newcomers to the bujinkan and a sense of « the good ol’days » to the old bujinkan members.
This seminar is special for many reasons:
First, this is the only remaining seminar where the « Shi tenno » are teaching together. Since 1993 Sven, Peter, Pedro & Arnaud have been teaching together in Spain, France, England, Ireland etc…
Second, the four friends are used to teach together which gives a kind of « family feeling » to this event;
Third, this is a 3 days seminar like the taikai of the past when Hatsumi sensei was travelling the world to spread his teaching;
Fourth, the group of participants is divided into four groups by technical level. This means that a beginner will receive a class that he or she can understand; but also that a high rank student (judan and above) will also get something to improve his or her understanding;
Fifth, each day is divided into small training sessions of about 1 hour where each group has the chance to train with each one of the shihan in a private class;
Sixth, the 3 training halls (mats or wooden floor) allow each one to spend a full day of training in different environment;
Seventh, the free t-shirt, the hot meals, the free lodging (during, before or after the event), makes it a big opportunity to exchange with the many practitioners from all Europe but also to take the chance to visit Paris;
Eighth, the final party at the end of the third day is always a good moment before going back home and parting from 150 new friends coming from 15 to 18 countries.
The YSTT is a very good opportunity to meet your buyu from Europe, to exchange, train, and learn a lot of things in a very friendly environment.
This year, this is the 27th year of my bujinkan training. SO I decided that each participant that is booked online will receive a FREE 2 months unlimited access to our online streaming website displaying more than 600 bujinkan techniques.
Thank you for your support!
A. Cousergue
Bujinkan Shihan
Please check the new page on the Paris Taikai on this site
Shiro Kuma 