Author: koryu

On 14th of September 2015, at the Faculty Counsel at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, the members of the board unanimously approved the project proposal of Igor Dovezenski to open a „Laboratory for Eastern Cultures“ within the Institute, and for the first time in Macedonia, classical Japanese martial arts are taken to the academic level. With that, the students from the department IEA for the subjects „Ethnology of Asia“ and „Ethnology of Japan“ are going to have mandatory classes where through exercises, they will study the theory, as well as the techniques of the arts that are taught in the Organization „Taiyou e no Michi“.

Even though the Dojo for classical Japanese samurai and ninja arts „Bujinkan Macedonia“ accepts new students throughout the year, September is the best time to open a new page in Your life’s story.

The nine day event that is considered to be the most intensive and the most important in Bujinkan Macedonia, in the words of the participants,  this year was flawlessly organized. The training sessions were divided between the instructors Igor Dovezenski and Sergey Babkin, so the days were filled with activities from dawn till dusk.

Every day started with a morning jog and a body strech, and after the breakfast the participants studied the secrets of combat with a long staff (Bojutsu) of the art Kukamishin ryu. The instructor Sergej Babkin was in charge of that, who also held training sessions every day on how to rehabilitate the body through special ways of streching the muscles (Junan Taiso). 

Shidoshi Igor Dovezenski taught the art of combat using your body, Shinden Fudo ryu Jutaijutsu, and was rensponsible for the participants’ stamina or strenghtening the muscles of the body through special excercises (Junan Undo). Beside that, the instructor of Bujinkan Macedonia didn’t neglect the „Night Ninja Training“, that every year make this event so tempting and famous.

As for the company, as every year was on the highest level possible. The nine-day socialization creates incredible deep relations between the members of our dojo, that become a foundation for even greater collaboration in the following period.

Regarding the food, the organizers got the highest grades this year too. Natural and freshly gathered directly from the garden in front of the Hombu Dojo. Carrefully picked and served to refill all lost nutrients in the body, and and the same time to give strength for the hard and demanding training.

At the end we have the impressions of the participants to share that point out every year the legendary Camps of Bujinkan Macedonia are not only a synonim for a hard and demanding summer training, but are used more as a guide to other clubs in Europe on how to organize an event with a similar format. We will continue to raise the standard of Bujinkan worldwide, and of course will increase the quality of our Summer Camps. 

The countdown has begun. In a week starts the seventh in a row „Summer Ninja Camp“, this time called International Summer Koryu Camp VII. Besides Igor Dovezenski, this year another teacher will attend, and that is Sergey Babkin from Russia – master for Kukamishin ryu Hyoho and for Katori Shinto ryu Bujutsu.

After two days of living alongside a river, we can freely say that we’ve become a „river people“. At least that’s the impression the pasrticipants got from the second seminar called „Life in the Wilderness“.

During the event, shidoshi Igor Dovezenski selflessly transmitted his knowledge to the participants that were valienty enough to apply to this seminar, so they gained new knowledge for the techniques meant for survival in larger groups, this time alongside a river and a river bank.

The first day, Dovezenski taught how to choose an appropriate location to live by the river for a longer period od time, while the country is being occupated or in case of a natural disaster. Afterwards, we practiced techniques for supplying and preparing the food, as well as illuminating the surroundings with the help of primitive tools.

Throughout the second day, the leader of Bujinkan Macedonia taught how to supply drinking water if you suspect the water is poluted, and how to catch bigger fish with a knife and the most efficient way to prepare them.