Explore how to apply Uki-Waza from a standing lock-up, if we find ourselves down on the ground and want to regain our feet, if an opponent tackles us, from behind our attacker, with a jacket to grab, and how to do it if we don’t have a jacket to grab onto.
Explore Yoku-To specifically from the “mount” position, where we can employ the same strategies on the ground that we practice in the standing version.
A cryptic teaching of the Togakure Ryu, the Zan-To Tonko no Kata, or So-To Tonko no Kata, makes use of techniques for escaping capture.
Teleport back to 1993 with this seminar from An-shu Stephen K. Hayes in Austin, Texas.
Explore fundamental truths, abstract ideas, and advanced applications that prove the ninja’s core belief – that size, speed, and strength aren’t the only way to win.
This follow along training session will provide you with a full body workout and allow you to train your “bojutsu” flows and transitions. The only thing you will need is your bo and some space. Let’s get started!
Bojutsu Kihon is a 9-kyu course introducing the bo long staff fundamentals taught by To-Shin Do. Completion of the course might take a year-and-a-half to two years. 9 kyu diplomas are issued, followed by a Bojutsu Kihon diploma, comparable to receiving a Black Belt in bojutsu.
Boxing Strikes In Ninja Lab
Shihan Mark Sentoshi Russo teaches you several drills that you can do on your own to build muscle memory around foundational concepts.
Join An-shu as he delivers a one-hour virtual seminar on the elements of the mandala, from a martial art perspective.
An-shu Stephen K. Hayes teaches his approach to the four elements as four specific physio-emotional responses to an attack. Earth holding ground, water tactically repositioning, fire intercepting, and wind evading are the four key ways of movement to explore in your beginning study of To-Shin Do.
Take the first step to help increase your dynamic power, sense of balance, flexibility, and agility. You’ll build core strength and stability in addition to organizing and strengthening neural pathways that support effective unified movement, which is essential to proper To-Shin Do taijutsu. When done correctly, many of these exercises are deceptively challenging and will […]
In this course, we will explore several options to “Get To Your Feet” if you’ve found yourself knocked, or drug down to the ground in an altercation. Reversals are the fastest way, when they work, to regain the top position to ultimately get back up to our feet and away from the attacker.
This second installment of our “Get to Your Feet” series will cover what to do if our first plan didn’t pan out for us. If we can’t immediately get off of the bottom then lets transition to a position with more options and try again.
The Hombu dojo in Dayton, Ohio teaches these techniques and lessons in April and October of every year.
