The Kokusai Budō Senmon Gakkō ("International Martial Arts Professional School") is a blend of the ancient and modern. It is essentially an online reconstitution of the famed Busen, at which many of the foremost Japanese martial arts instructors of the 20th century trained. It is dedicated to training its students to be the foremost instructors in the classical Japanese martial arts of the 21st century. The primary focus of our online coursework is the bun (classical education) of bun-bu ryōdō -- the Dual Way of the Pen and Sword -- to ensure that the budō instructors of tomorrow are as thoroughly versed in the culture, philosophy, history, kinesiology, and artistic qualities of the arts they are teaching, as they are in the techniques of those arts.
The
Nippon budō taught at
the Busen include: Musō
Jikiden Eishin-Ryū Iaijutsu, Ono-Ha Ittō-Ryū Kenjutsu,
Shindō Musō-Ryū
Jōjutsu, Shindō-Ryū
Kenjutsu, and
Daitō-Ryū Aiki-jūjutsu,
all of which were arts created and practiced by the
samurai of ancient mainland Japan. Musō
Jikiden Eishin-Ryū Iaijutsu
is ... (full article here)
The Okinawa bujutsu taught at the Busen are: Shitō-Ryū Karate-dō and Aragaki-Ryū Okinawa Kobujutsu. These arts developed when the Ryūkyū Islands, governed from Okinawa, were a separate kingdom from mainland Japan, so they possess many unique ... (full article here)
The online venue of the Busen is our Tsūshin-Kyōiku Centre. Tsūshin-kyōiku means "distance learning" in Japanese. Our initial foray into distance learning began in 1996, when the Jikishin-Kai International appointed Leonard Pellman Shihan as director of its tsūshin-kyōiku programme ... (full article here)
Pellman Sensei conducted a seminar on advanced killing techniques the weekend of July 31st at the Mills Seitō Family Dōjō in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Students 4 to 6 years of age practiced pressure-point techniques for arresting heart and brain function ... (more)