Blog A place for me to pass comment and pass on some of my thoughts and observations.
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Sunday  23 | 09 | 2018  One of the things that I notice recently running a Judo Club is the number of times I am contacted by potential students about joining. They are always very enthusiastic and say they will be there on the next training day, but nine times out of 10 fail to appear. How they plan to learn a martial art from home is a mystery.  Saturday  24 | 03 | 2018 A one day IGAS martial arts course at Lee-on-Solent. I have been asked to take a session on this one. What will it be I wonder?  Well have returned in one piece and it seemed to go down well.  Monday  26 | 02 | 2018  Just returned from another interesting and informative martial art course at the Kenshindoryu Nippon Budo Kyokai dojo at Rodes in Northampton with Sensei Jim Dart and special guest instructor Sensei Jose Caracena 5th Dan on Tenjn Shinyo Ryu Jujitsu.
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Have You Had to Use It? People who don't train often ask me 'Have you ever had to use it?' To which my reply is that you never know how many times you weren't attacked because you were self confident / self assured / aware of your surroundings. So you 'use' your skills every day. Sensei Jim Dart 6th Dan (Kenshindoryu Nippon Budo Kyokai)
“ The black belt is not a mark or symbol of the end of the journey to ones mastery of the arts; rather it is the mark that one is done packing for the journey and may now take the first step in their true journey. This is a journey which can not ever be complete, only travelled ….”
Blog A place for me to pass comment and pass on some of my thoughts and observations.
The Zen Judo UK Website
© The Zen Judo Family and The British Zen Judo Family Association. All rights reserved.
Sunday  23 | 09 | 2018  One of the things that I notice recently running a Judo Club is the number of times I am contacted by potential students about joining. They are always very enthusiastic and say they will be there on the next training day, but nine times out of 10 fail to appear. How they plan to learn a martial art from home is a mystery.  Saturday  24 | 03 | 2018 A one day IGAS martial arts course at Lee-on-Solent. I have been asked to take a session on this one. What will it be I wonder?  Well have returned in one piece and it seemed to go down well.  Monday  26 | 02 | 2018  Just returned from another interesting and informative martial art course at the Kenshindoryu Nippon Budo Kyokai dojo at Rodes in Northampton with Sensei Jim Dart and special guest instructor Sensei Jose Caracena 5th Dan on Tenjn Shinyo Ryu Jujitsu.
www.zenjudo.co.uk The Zen Judo Family
Have You Had to Use It? People who don't train often ask me 'Have you ever had to use it?' To which my reply is that you never know how many times you weren't attacked because you were self confident / self assured / aware of your surroundings. So you 'use' your skills every day. Sensei Jim Dart 6th Dan (Kenshindoryu Nippon Budo Kyokai)
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