HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing all Myojo Dojo students and friends a great New Year!

May it bring peace and happiness!

Thank you for your hard work and support. Let's make it an even better year for 2010.

There are some more great training opportunities with Shoto Tanemura Sensei in the new year, with the first one being the UK Togakure Ryu Tai Kai 2010 at Southampton in April.

Hope you can make it!

"Keep your heart and spirit like the scene on an autumn morning when the sun shines brightly on the frost-covered fields. Your spirit must have dauntless courage. Never forget the heart of affection and benevolence blowing like a spring breeze, making the plants gently sway. If you can do this, you can possess a mind with graceful elegance." Anonymous Martial Artist

Ninpo Ikkan...

HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY

Twenty five years ago today - 28th November 1984, Tanemura Soke created a Martial Art organization - the Genbukan. It was created for the purpose of preserving, sharing and teaching true Martial Art schools of various lineages that date back thousands of years ago.
Since then it has grown and evolved to become a worldwide membership and has helped people stay safe and become better human beings!

Happy 25th Birthday Genbukan!

Let's keep it going...

Ninpo Ikkan!

CROSSFIT INTRO COURSE

It was great to work alongside Miles Key at his 'box' - CrossFit Hove last weekend. The 'CrossFit Intro Course' is designed to share the basic concept and rationale behind the CrossFit.com workouts but more importantly coach people through the basic functional movements used in those workouts, such as the deadlift, squat, press, kipping pull up, etc.

Everybody that attended did a fantastic job, worked hard and made vast improvements in their skill sets.

If you have an interest in functional fitness then check out www.crossfit.com, it's certainly the way forward for fitness that transfers to everyday life whether you are an elite soldier or a grandparent. Seek out a certified CrossFit coach, so that you are learning the correct mechanics of movement, get consistent at them and then you are able to safely add the intensity that CrossFit is so well known for.

Miles Key has a fabulous set up in Hove with all the equipment and coaching that you'll need... thoroughly recommended! CrossFit Hove

Watch this space for more CrossFit Intro Courses coming soon!

GERMANY TAI KAI 2010 CHANGED VENUE TO UK

Please be aware that the Germany Tai Kai April 2010 is cancelled and will take place in Southampton, UK instead.

The dates are the same and I will update you with further info once I receive it.

Thursday April 22nd Instructor Training (3rd Kyu and above)
Friday April 23rd Instructor Training
Saturday April 24th Public Taikai
Sunday April 25th Public Taikai

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to all my students who passed their Tenshin Hyoho Kukishin Ryu Kirigami and Shoden Menkyo tests, this past weekend at the UK Tai Kai with Tanemura Soke. You all did great!

Also congratulations to our two new Ninpo Taijutsu Shodan Black Belts, Max and Karl. Brilliant tests! And to Tara who earned her Ninpo Taijutsu Sandan (3rd Dan). Excellent!

It was a fantastic and intense event, with so much inspiration on offer from Tanemura Soke who is the Grandmaster of this particular Ryu Ha (Martial Art School). Much was learnt and absorbed in the past four days, but the real work will now begin in forging these techniques and creating a depth of understanding and skill.

It was amazing to see the skill and spirit of Tanemura Soke when demonstrating the Ko Ryu kata in the Jujutsu but also we were so very lucky to see some of the Hanbo-jutsu and Ken-jutsu too. Truly spectacular! What a great way of celebrating Myojo Dojo's 10th Birthday!

Let's value and develop what we have learnt by continuing to train hard with good heart and spirit.

CROSSFIT - Functional Fitness Intro Course

There is an upcoming Personal Fitness course that aims to introduce you to the 'CrossFit' fitness programme, that is becoming forever popular with elite MMA athletes, cops, soldiers, firefighters but equally as popular with kids and grandparents worldwide!

SUNDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2009

12.30-15.30

BRIGHTON

£20

The schedule of the 3 hour course will include:

• Understanding what is Fitness?
• Understanding what Is CrossFit?
• How to create CrossFit programmes and understand the daily 'Workout of the Day' posted online each day -www.crossfit.com
• Nutrition basics
• Develop skill in the 9 fundamental functional movements used in CrossFit workouts (squat, press, deadlift, clean, push jerk, kipping pull up, etc.)

For more info visit:

www.crossfit.com

www.safespacegym.org.uk (news section)

Pre-booking is required.

To make a booking: Email a request for a booking form and return the payment by post or by hand, before 7th November.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Thanks.

Zeb Glover

CrossFit Level 1 Coach

KARL & MAX TRAINING FOR THEIR UPCOMING SHODAN TEST

This is Karl and Max training in preparation for their Ninpo Shodan test at the upcoming UK Brighton Tai Kai under Tanemura Soke, at the end of October. Good Luck guys!

The other photo is of Simon, taken after he'd just finished the CrossFit WOD (Workout of the Day) after the main class. It was a benchmark workout called 'Fran': 21, 15, 9 reps of: 42kg Thrusters (Front Squat & Push Press) & Pull Ups. We scaled the weight on the thrusters accordingly depending on the students own fitness levels and used dumbells instead of a barbell. Pull ups were also scaled to jumping pull ups for those that are still working on their 'kipping pull up' technique.

Great job guys!

UK Tai Kai 2009 - Tenshin Hyoho Kukishin Ryu

Only two weeks to go until the UK Tai Kai 2009, in Brighton, where Tanemura Soke will be teaching the Tenshin Hyoho Kukishin Ryu.

For more info visit:

http://uk.genbukantaikai.com/

See you all there!

Myojo Dojo's 10th Birthday!

It will be MYOJO DOJO's 10th Birthday on October 31st 2009!

Let's celebrate... suggestions on a postcard...

How great that we are able to train with Tanemura Soke at the Tenshin Hyoho Kukishin Ryu UK Tai Kai on our birthday too! :-)

Thank you to all my students that have shared the good times but also endured through the harder times and still continue to train on this Martial path, striving to be better warriors and human beings.

May your spirits continue to shine bright!

NINPO IKKAN

Zeb Glover

Myojo-dojo-Cho

UK Tai Kai 2008 - Myojo Dojo

Myojo Dojo group photo from last year's Shinden Fudo Ryu UK Tai Kai 2008.

Only a few weeks to go until Tanemura Sensei returns to Brighton, UK, this time to teach the Tenshin Hyoho Kukishin Ryu! It's going to be amazing!

Sweat Angel :-)

Above is Karl's 'Sweat Angel' from last week's post-class CrossFit WOD (Workout Of The Day) called 'Fight Gone Bad'. A great name for a great workout that taxes your anaerobic metabolic pathway regardless of how fit or unfit you are. We scaled it to suit different people's fitness needs.

GERMANY TAI KAI 2010

Germany are hosting a Tai Kai where Shoto Tanemura Sensei will be teaching Togakure Ryu Tanemura Ha on April 22nd-25th 2010.

Put it in your diary now!

Looks to be another great Tai Kai.

Visit this link for more info:

http://users.telenet.be/germanytaikai/english/home.htm

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

"If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things."

- Vincent Van Gogh

WELCOME TO THE NEW BLOG

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the new Myojo Dojo blog!

Check in here to keep updated on current and upcoming events and to read articles on various matters concerning Traditional Ko Ryu (Ancient) Martial Arts written by the dojo members.

This will also replace the existing Monthly Newsletter.

If you have any suggestions or contributions then please email me.

Thank you and enjoy!

Zeb Glover

Myojo Dojo-Cho