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The seminar “Life in the Wilderness III” held

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After having previously mastered the
techniques of organized living in a community on low mountains and near rivers,
this year we dedicated ourselves to studying the skills to surviving as a larger
group of people in a forest.  And this
past weekend proved that some of the members of Bujinkan Macedonia are
unstoppably taking in all the knowledge that has been piling up through the
years in the instructor Igor Dovezenski, and who is always unselfishly trying
to pass on a part of his experience on to his students.

The seminar was held in the forest Mlaka,
in the valley under the mountain of Lipac and in two different locations. About
the feeling of being a part of this event, we will share part of the
impressions of some of the participants.

“We arrived at Homby Dojo at 08.00 hours,
and Sensei was already ready waiting for us. Before we started for the forest
he said that from all the excitement he couldn’t fall asleep and he could
barely wait for us. Afterwards I learned that a day earlier he had ‘caught’ a
stomach bug, but I didn’t notice any signs of weakens from him during the
entirety of the seminar.
When we found the location we were looking for, Sensei first held a lecture and
told us the most important thing we should know if we find ourselves in a
situation to organize living in a forest for a longer amount of time.  Our questions were answered in great detail.
After Sensei assigned different tasks, we went to work.  We arranged the sleeping pads, we readied the
fire, and we cleaned the field where we were supposed to camp for the next two
days. Afterwards we started to prepare the ‘lunch’. We dug a big hole next to
the fire and we filled it with potatoes which we subsequently covered in embers
from all sides. Immediately after satisfying our hunger we started to prepare
the next meal. As Sensei always teaches us, surviving quickly becomes a fight
for calories. When it got dark, we started to prepare for sleep. The watch was
set, and from all sides started ‘coming’ the sounds of the forest. The sun rose
and Vlatce started rousing us. After we were done with the mourning hygiene ,
we dispersed the camp and moved to another location. Sensei and Taki went to
find some ‘proteins’, and the rest of us started to tidy up our equipment and
the location. We cleaned the ‘proteins’ from guts, we cooked them and got them
‘inside’. Then Sense showed us how we can with primitive tools make bows and
arrows for a hunt. 


The second day ended with ‘breaded’ snails which were very tasty” – Todor
Angelovski

“I’ll start from the end. While returning
home I got to thinking how few have the opportunity in a time of peace and
prosperity to taste how it feels to organize life in the wild and to survive in
some seriously hard conditions. When you don’t have access to 99.9% of the
resources you have at your disposal while in the city. To understand this
feeling, meaning to feel it on your own skin, it is necessary to go out in the
field and to experience directly how hard it is to survive outside of a
populated area.
This kind of seminars I will always support and I will try to take part in as
many as possible, because in this way not only are many useful techniques
learned, you also learn to appreciate life in its entirety. And not only your
own, but those of the people around you, and the life of all the plant and
animal life around you. Only in moments like this we can understand that we are
not the center of the Universe” – Vladimir Antovski   

 

Life in the Wilderness III

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After
the two seminars held on the topic “Life in the Wild”, during which members of
Bujinkan Macedonia studied the techniques of organized living in a community in
the wild, it’s time for the third.

During
the first two events the instructor Dovezenski taught his students how they can
live a long period in a group if they take shelter on a mountain below 1000
meters,  as well as organized living by a
river.
During “Life in the Wilderness III” members of Bujinkan Macedonia will have the
opportunity to learn the techniques of group survival in a forest.      

As
was announced during the first seminar, the warriors from the dojo will face
each year a different terrain meaning different geographical survival
conditions.

The
seminar will be held under the guise of a natural catastrophe or some other
event that necessitates a retreat to an inaccessible location and organization
of everyday life for an extended time period by a certain group of people. By
mastering these new skills, members of the dojo will be capable of taking care
of their family and providing it with the basic needs for life in the wild in
case of an emergency.       

The
year before last we started to write a new chapter of history, and this year we
continue with the third part. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn the
techniques of living in nature which in case of a natural disaster or some
other catastrophe will be more than required .  

In
the seminar may take part all members of the dojo Bujinkan Macedonia/ Taiyou e no Michi regardless of their title or experience.

Required equipment: everything
that can be used to survive in nature and will fit in your backpack.

Day: 23/23 July (2016)

Location: Mlaka – in the valley
below Lipac

Program:

Saturday:  07.00 – starting from Skopje

Sunday:    18.00 – coming back

Registration and information
through inbox, telephone or through the Forum.

p.s. Staying in nature brings
certain dangers. All participants come at their own risk. Do all necessary
medical checks before registering to participate. 

„Sui Ren“ seminar held

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Shidoshi ho Marko Opachikj practically „wrote“ the report for the web-site this time by sharing his impressions of the yesterday’s seminar on our Forum.


„I recall of a story that once Sensei told us, while he was in Japan he visited a holy place and suddenly and uncontrollably he started to laugh from happiness. I’m talking of that laughter, when your heart and soul tremble as if you have experienced the supernatural. In some way I feel the same myself. Maybe some will think: ‘It’s just a river, training in the water, and that’s it.’ But Sui Ren for me is really emotional, and I still cannot figure out why. Maybe it’s that way because it’s taking place exactly after five years from the last seminar, and at that time I was younger and everything looked surreal to me. Maybe because Sui Ren is a method that the ninja developed to perfection, and that impresses me. Maybe because it is in water, and it’s a real challenge to endure seven hours in such environment. Many of you won’t ever understand that you could make so many exercises in one river. To ‘invent’ so many ways to  hide yourself. All those stories that Sensei told us during the seminar were unbelievable, but all these year that we passed that legendary river too. The notion that every year the seminar takes place at a different location only contributes and increases the excitement. We left our youth on that river and I’m proud of it and don’t regret even a second, just the contrary. I thank Sensei that he made me ‘stuck’ the whole night writing a densho for hours.

I won’t ‘reveal’ here the techniques that we practiced, because you need to come and train hard in the water for yourself to find out the fortitude and the patience that are the most important for Sui Ren. I hope that we will have the honor the next year too to participate to an event like this, which in my opinion, needs to be kept alive, and to learn as much as we can from our Sensei’s knowledge, which is amazingly vast!“

Sui Ren

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Five years exactly from the last official Sui Ren outdoor seminar, the leader of „Taiyou e no Michi“ revives again this once regularly held event in Bujinkan Macedonia.

We say „official“ since the last several years the members of the dojo had the opportunity to practice the techniques of Sui Ren (training in water) during our summer ninja camps.
Moreover, this skill was mandatory in the past for all Togakure ryu shinobi warriors, and was consisted of techniques for swimming quietly, silent movement through rivers and lakes, crossing water surfaces using unconventional means, combat, breathing underwater etc.
The event will take place at the river at the base of the mountain Lipac. All students of the Organization „Taiyou e no Michi“, or the dojo Bujinkan Macedonia have the right to partake.
Date: 10.07.2016 (Sunday)
Location: Dolno Proodishte
Program:
09.00 o’clock – departure from Skopje
10.00 o’clock – arrival
10.30 – 17.30 – theory and practice
18.30 – return
The organizer holds the right to change the theme of the seminar only if the weather conditions are severe for a several hour training in water.

Ninja Kids invaded the Hombu Dojo for the second time

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On Saturday, the Ninja Kids of Bujinkan Macedonia invaded the Hombu Dojo of the Organization dedicated to the study of classical Japanese martial arts „Taiyou e no Michi“ for the second time.

In this conquering mission 22 children participated, from the youngest section of the only club in our country that nurtures traditional martial arts from the Land of the Rising Sun.

During the event, which is organized twice a year – in spring and autumn, the youngest students of Bujinkan Macedonia had various activities throughout the day. Under the leadership of Todor, Taki, and Sanja, the children had a Gyoko ryu lesson where they practiced Sanshin no kata, and they listened to several lectures on the subject: „Togakure ryu Ninjutsu“.
The head instructor of Bujinkan Macedonia, Igor Dovezenski, held a kenjutsu training session (Japanese sword fighting), and before that the children had the opportunity to have a look at the Hombu Dojo, which at the same time represents a small museum where you could see different objects and tools used by the Japanese ninjas and Samurai from the Middle ages. 
The kids had an organized visit to a small sheep farm too, and also had a homemade delicious lunch made using only fresh produce directly from the garden located by the dojo.
The kids used the free time to play different games, but also to eat the ripe sour cherries that they picked from the trees that grow everywhere around the Hombu’s yard.
At the end, we would like to add that the children were supervised at all times by the watchful eye of a doctor, who was hired by the Organization „Taiyou e no Michi“.  
The next conquering mission of the Ninja Kids for the Hombu Dojo is due in autumn.

Sunday Yumi Ya seminar held

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Yesterday in the region of Mlaka in a valley under the mountain of Lipac, a one day seminar was held on the topic: Yumi Ya (the art of shooting with a bow and arrow). On the seminar four members of Bujikan Macedonia were present who had the opportunity to become closely acquainted with one of the oldest weapons known to any people on the planet.
The event began with a small lecture on the history of the Japanese bow, and afterwards we began shooting with the so called Hankyu or Half-bow. It is a shortened version of the Japanese long samurai bow, known for its excellent performances. 
Besides shooting from several different positions, various shooting techniques were practiced while moving, running, but also techniques of firing an arrow at great ranges.
In the end we agreed that this seminar will continue to be held, always in the same time of year, meaning the month of May.

Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto ryu seminar with Erik Louw (Menkyo) held

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The second of the planned international seminars in 2016 with the best European kobudo masters, organized by the Organization dedicated to the study of traditional Japanese martial arts, has finished.

On the three-day event participated several students of Katori Shinto ryu Macedonia, as well as one student of shidosha Erik Louw from the Netherlands.
Teacher Louw  during the seminar passed down techniques for simultaneous drawing and cutting with a Japanese sword (iaijutsu/battojutsu), including combat with a katana (kenjutsu). He didn’t leave out the techniques with a long staff (bojutsu), as well as naginata kata.
As always, the teacher Louw unselfishly and carefully transferred his knowledge in his distinctive manner – through humor and laughter.
The free time during the breaks was used to visit the Osogovski Monastery and Kriva Palanka, as well as the Kuklica site, and the ancient city Kratovo.
Until our next encounter…

Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto ryu seminar with Erik Louw Sensei

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Organized by Katori Shinto ryu Macedonia, and backed by the Organization dedicated to the study of classical Japanese martial arts „Taiyou e no Michi“, tomorrow evening our mentor for Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto ryu Bujutsu – Erik Louw is travelling to Macedonia from the Netherlands. In the next couple of days he will be teaching a seminar for the oldest documented Japanese martial tradition, and several members of our dojo are going to participate this event.

Furthermore, this is the third visit of our country by the teacher Louw, who is one of the rare carriers of the title Menkyo for Katori Shinto ryu.
At the seminar we will be training sword-drawing techniques from a sitting (iaijutsu) and standing (battojutsu) position, as well as techniques for staff combat (bojutsu) and halberd (naginatajutsu).
All interested can contact us on our e-mail: daito_macedonia@yahoo.com

Additional information for Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto ryu Bujutsu in Macedonia —->here

For the art, on Wikipedia —–> here

And on YouTube —–> here

The first of a series of intensive seminars on “Shinobi Taiso” has been held

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This past weekend the first of a series of intensive seminars on “Shinobi Taiso’ has been held, under the leadership of the leader of the Organization „Taiyou e no Michi“– Igor Dovezenski. Three students of Bujikan Macedonia decided to study this system in which are incorporated many traditional Japanese methods created with the goal to help with the myriad of physical dysfunctions caused by a misbalance in the muscular system of man, and also different disruptions of the flow of energy in the body.
Right after the end of the first part of the course, the participants shared their impressions on the internet Forum.
“I have been part of Bujinkan Macedonia for a long time and have attended a lot of trainings, seminars, at home, as well as foreign ones. I have been a participant in summer camps, I have experienced and been through all kinds of challenges in the dojo. I have learned so many things and have met so many people and can I really ask myself after all that: `Ok then, is it worth it? Is it lost time, can I have done something smarter?` This weekend with Sanja and Dame attended another seminar where we were met again with the incredible knowledge of Sensei. The topic of this seminar was how to improve the quality of life, how to prevent injuries, but also how to return balance to the locomotor system. Sensei has delved into this in maximal detail, precise and even on a academic level. Introduction to the system that moves our body, its natural positions and what causes injures, furthermore why man in the modern age has a misbalance in his muscle structure, what our modern way of  life is like and what are the consequences of the technological advantages which we use every day.  We got a answer to all these questions, all though It is my opinion that two days is too little to go over all of that and everyday constant research and further knowledge is needed. One of the most important things I learned during the course is that man must have perfect knowledge of his body and to take care of it the best he can.  I think that we are alienating ourselves and that we are completely in a state of self conflict. We are all fooling ourselves that we are busy with important things, and actually that which is really important we’re casting aside, we forget it, we ignore the signals for help that the body sends and in the end we become sick. I hope that I will be able to pass all of the lesions provided for Shinobi Taiso and that I will be able to help the people around me.” – Vladimir Antonovski
“We dedicated both days to a very detailed theoretical and practical studying of the movements of the body. Firstly Sensei explained to us what it means and how it comes to debalancing of the muscles and how the modern way of life (mis)impacts the disturbances of the locomotor system of man. We had the opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the functions of the skeleton, to determine all the way that a certain part of the body moves and to pick appropriate exercises which will serve to strengthen or stretch the muscles ( depending on the needs ). In the practical part we practices a lot of the techniques along with the appropriate variants, by also keeping track of rhythm, breathing, balancing the left and right side, duration, but also we learned how a complete class should look like.  
We studied the disorders which are most common on people, the ways to diagnose them, and according to that how to treat them.  
We split the exercises in accordance with the type of problem we are dealing with and how to treat it, and them in accordance of the conditions we are under. For example while we are at work, how we can while sitting on a chair go through a series of exercises, and also exercises with a ball at home, exercises on a wall and so on. The seminar war very interactive and we immediately got an answer form Sensei to all our questions. At the end each of us got a task to hold а class.”-  Sanja Simonova
“I am still unsure if I pointed Vlatce, Sanja and Dame to further delve into Shinobi Taiso, or, alternatively, the system for helping physical dysfunctions, and their prevention- chose them. Anyway, I am happy that my longtime students, after they start mastering the basics of kobudo, are starting to slowly “specialize” in separate skills. I hope that the three of them will walk the Path to the end.” – Igor Dovezenski
 
 

Intensive course for „Shinobi Taiso“ started

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On the 7th and the 8th of May, we are going to be starting the first ten lessons from the intensive course for „Shinobi Taiso“, which is designed to have total of 66 lessons. Divided in three levels (shoden, chuden and okuden), this system will provide our members a deeper level of understanding of the human organism, and how to provide first aid during injuries or muscle imbalances.

In the past, the elements from which this system is consisted of were transmitted along with the martial arts. This ancient natural medicine originates from the ancient philosophies and studies of Amatsu Tatara, and thanks to the teacher Toshitsugu Takamatsu it is being transmitted in Bujinkan.
Where does this system get its name?
Shinobi is a term meant for a highly trained person from Feudal Japan who was specialized for various unconventional means of combat.
Taiso is a generic term for conditioning the body consisted of the words: Tai (body) and So (strengthening).
With the term body conditioning we mean: an increase of your health and work ability, an increase of the overall training and stamina to overcome various obstacles.
Shinobi Taiso is a system created by the leader of Bujinkan Macedonia, Igor Dovezenski, with the sole purpose to increase his own fitness needed for the everyday classical Japanese martial art training sessions. The system is consisted of various stretching exercises, as well as exercises to strengthen and increase the muscle stamina.
The system itself is a summation of traditional ways to stretch and strengthen the body used in the classical martial schools. In different ryu-ha these are also known as: Junan Taiso, Junan Undo, Ryu Tai Undo and Aiki Taiso.
  
Dovezenski’s experience gathered during his 28 years of training koryu bujutsu, the latest science research from the area of conditioning the body, as well as the study of the human anatomy and biomechanics (a field in science that studies the mechanical aspects and processes in the living organisms) lead to the creation of Shinobi Taiso®.
For more information and applying, feel free to contact us via our mail: daito_macedonia@yahoo.com