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

4 Nov 2008 at 12:02pm
Hi all, As some of you may be aware, the Bujinkan Meehan Dojo has a new website, located at www.happobiken.com and bit by bit, it’s been coming onstream over the last few weeks. Unlike previous websites that the dojo has published, this is a far more professional affair built on a content management system that [...]
31 Oct 2008 at 4:57pm
Class: Thursday Oct 30th Ukemi practice saw us to do some low light-level rolling for awareness training. After a few weeks of the Ten and Chi levels of the art’s Ten Chi Jin no Maki syllabus, we started on the kata from the Jin level with Koku and Renyo of Gyokko Ryu. It’s worthwhile keeping [...]
29 Oct 2008 at 3:11pm
Class: Tuesday 28th Oct (I took Rex’s class at 7pm and we did the Sanshin no Kata warm-up and ukemi as well as various 2-man and solo drills on Zempo Geri) In the main class we went straight into techniques without ukemi or warmup practice “for fun”. We dealt with punching/kicking with particular angling that [...]
22 Oct 2008 at 11:39am
Class: Tuesday 21st Oct The recent seminar with Thomas Franzen threw up a lot of ideas so we explored some of them in class. When looked at it closely, it really involved the idea of “koppo” as described at various times by Soke – of manipulating the structure behind defence/offence. Shizen no kamae is our [...]
17 Oct 2008 at 2:49pm
Rex’s regular class is on Tuesdays 7pm-8.30pm Shane’s regular Wednesday class finishes at the end of October until further notice Sat 18th Thomas Franzen Seminar in Clondalkin Sun 19thThomas Franzen Seminar in Clondalkin Mon 20th – No training, due to the seminar in Clondalkin on Sunday. Tues 21st – 6pm to 8.00pm Beginner and intermediate [...]
17 Oct 2008 at 2:41pm
Class: Thursday 16th Oct Angling, blocking and punching were investigated in drills that showed up any flaws in basic structure in both ichimonji no kamae and some seated techniques. Some happo geri from the Ten Chi Jin was practiced too along with some applications. It was found that angling plays a huge part here as [...]
14 Oct 2008 at 4:23pm
Class: Monday Oct 14th Basic ukemi practice was followed by a spotlight on ura gyaku and some interesting variations as uke hits the ground. The idea of “Sanshin” or 3 hearts was involved here to various degrees. There were many control mechanisms that were hard to see and care had to be taken on applying [...]
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 [...]
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 variations [...]
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 [...]

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