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Author koryuPosted on March 14, 2010Categories Home

Positive atmosphere,  overcrowded gym, great socializing and hard work characterized the seminar that took place this weekend in Kavadarci, under the guidance of the instructor of Bujinkan Macedonia, Igor Dovezenski and organized by Blagoj Tanevski.

During the first day, basic punches and kicks, blocks and katas from Kurai Dori were practiced, from the classical Japanese martial school Koto Ryu Koppojutsu.The second day was reserved for the school of Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu, where besides the basics, instructor Dovezenski explained in detail the katas from Ki Gata. 

The seminar had an attendance of over 50, a respectable number for Bujinkan. Half of them came from Skopje, while the rest of them were from the second Ninjutsu Dojo in Macedonia, Bujinkan Kavadarci. The great interest for this seminar speaks volumes about the quality and level of teaching of instructor Dovezenski.   

The host Blagoj Tanevski, leader of Bujinkan Kavadarci, showed himself
as a great host. The whole seminar passed flawlessly, thanks to his dedication to make the guests feel good. On Saturday, around midnight, the attendants of this seminar went to a party in the club K7, where they stayed until the early hours of the morning, but that didn not in any way affect their concentration during the next day training. It was wonderful to see how students from both clubs socialize with each other. 

After the finishing of the Saturday training session, instructor Dovezenski held a ground-combat jujutsu training specially for the best UFC fighter in Macedonia (up to 73 kg), Oliver Petrovski. He is an incredibly talented competitor, who has a great fuiture ahead of him. During this session, Oliver enjoyed the techniques shown to him and mastered them in a short amount of time. Modest and
hard-working, he couldn’t wait to try the next technique, for which he was assisted by the students of Bujinkan Macedonia, Marjan Proshev and Zoran Todorovski. Afterwards, we discussed further collaboration, in order to make a better training opportunity for this Macedonian representative in UFC. Additionaly, we invite anyone who could financially support Oliver, to call Blagoj Tanevski. 

What more can we say? This kind of events, these moments stay forever remembered. We eagerly wait for our next meeting with our friends in Kavadarci.

Author koryuPosted on February 22, 2010Categories Home

Invited by our friend from Novi Sad, Srgjan Crnogorac, this weekend we attended a seminar with Kacem Zoughari from France. The theme of this seminar was Koto Ryu Koppojutsu and Jo Jutsu, but there were also techniques from the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu school. Besides the instructor from Bujinkan Macedonia, Igor Dovezenski, the seminar was attended by his uchi deshi Marjan Proshev and our friends from Bujinkan Kavadarci as well.
As it is the case with all seminars held by Kacem, our impressions are great, as was the way that he presents the schools of the Bujinkan.

Author koryuPosted on February 12, 2010Categories Home

Organized by Blagoj Tanevski, leader of the Bujinkan Kavadarci dojo, on the 13th and 14th of march 2010, the instructor of Bujinkan Macedonia Igor Dovezenski will hold a two day seminar.

All interested will have the opportunity yo acquaint themselves with the basics of the classic Japanese martial arts schools of Koto Ryu and Gyokko Ryu.

The price for the seminar is 450 denars. Further informations can be obtained on our e-mail or the organizers phone number: 070 545 131.

Author koryuPosted on January 27, 2010Categories Home

In today’s issue of the most read macedonian weekly magazine, „Tea Moderna“ , was published an article dedicated to the females from Bujinkan Macedonia.

As you know, „Tea Moderna“ is a magazine dedicated to culture, art and fashion, and has a print of over 100.000 magazines sold per week. That means that at least 500.000 Macedonians will read about the Bujinkan Dojo, which is a quarter of the population in our country.

The instructor of Bujinkan Macedonia, Igor Dovezenski, through his dojo is spreading the voice of the organization led by soke Masaaki Hatsumi for 15 years and has thus far made appearances in many written and electronic media, where he always raised great interest for the Japanese classic martial arts.

Author koryuPosted on January 24, 2010Categories Home

In the Hombu dojo of Bujinkan Macedonia, under the guidance of the instructor Igor Dovezenski, was held a seminar with the theme Gokui Ne Waza (secrets of ground fighting).
The seminar had 21 attendants, who during the two days, studied techniques of unarmed combat in a sitting and laying down positions.

The seminar began with a short theoretical introduction to the history and techniques of Ne Waza, which was soon followed by some Taiso drills, followed by studying the Atemi Kyu Sho, Ukemi Taihenjutsu and Kamae.
The second session of the first day was dedicated to Osae Waza, tehcniques for holding and controlling the opponent.

The second day, during the first session, students had the opportunity of learning six techniques of joint locks, or Kansetsu Waza as well as many variants of those techniques.
The last session of the seminar was dedicated to choking techniques or Shime Waza. Instructor Dovezenski demonstrated nine of these, as well as a few of their variations.

Regardless of the pain caused by the reality of the training, also from the hardness of the parquet of our Dojo, the students (almost all of them) successfully finished the seminar, satisfied with the techniques learned during these two days.

Author koryuPosted on January 19, 2010Categories Home

The Ninjutsu Union Bujinkan Macedonia

announces a two-day seminar about:

Gokui Ne Waza (The secrets of groundfighting)

with the instructor Igor Dovezenski

As you may already know, in our dojo we pay great attention to the ground combat. In the schools of the Bujinkan these techniques exist in Takagi Yoshin Ryu, Shinden Fudo Ryu and Kukishinden Ryu. Many of the Takagi Yoshin Ryu kata, end with shime waza or kansetsu waza to the ground. Even though, the aforementioned techniques aren’t organized as kata, in the past every Bushi (warrior) was required to pay attention to the Ne Waza training.
We invite all martial arts enthusiasts to attend the seminar and learn more of the ninjutsu ground combat secrets. The seminar is open to everyone – regardless of level of knowledge or style.
This is an opportunity for everyone to increase their knowledge of the martial art that was centuries-long mystery even to the Japanese.

Time: 22 and 23 of January, 2010.

Timetable:          Saturday                                Sunday

               11.00 to 13.00 training                 11.00 to 13.00 training
               13.00 to 15.00 lunch/break          13.00 to 15.00 lunch/break
               15.00 to 17.00 training                 15.00 to 17.00 training

Location: Hombu Dojo Taiyou e no Michi – Skopje – Macedonia
Equipment: Gi (both top and bottom), obi (belt) and tanto.

Author koryuPosted on January 13, 2010Categories Home

The
megapopular macedonian monthly „Life Magazine“, in it’s january
edition dedicated three pages to the School for classical japanese
martial arts Bujinkan Macedonia (Taiyou e no Michi).

The
event that made this posible was our traditional Women self-defense
workshop, which stirs a great amount of media attention.

Beside
the great presentation of the Bujinkan Dojo organization and soke
Masaaki Hatsumi, the members of our Dojo, Tina Dokovska and Zoran
Todorovski, demonstrated two woman self-defense techniques for the
public.

According
to the informations we got from the magazine’s editors, this theme
caused a great interest and as a result, further collaboration
between our club and „Life Magazine“ is discussed.

The
title of the article „Macedonian women study techniques of the
Japanese women-warriors“ stands on the front page of the magazine,
while in the text, besides the presentation of our club, there is a
short explanation about the nine schools of the Bujinkan Dojo, as well
as the techniques of the women-warriors – The Kunoichi.

Author koryuPosted on December 28, 2009Categories Home

Another year is behind us. It was dedicated to our spiritual growth through Saino Kon Ki. We strived to discover what that means through the study and practice of the school of Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu.
As well as the last one, this year we organized two international seminars, of which one was with the world-renowned shihan Sveneric Bogsater. The instructor of Bujinkan Macedonia, Igor Dovezenski, held seven outdoor seminars, as well as many sunday trainings. We are especially happy with the great number of attendants to our traditional „Survival“ and „The path of Shugenja“ seminars. This year, for the first time, we had guests from outside our country visiting those seminars which we see as a great accomplishment. Also, members of our Dojo attended three international Bujinkan seminars and three seminars held by other Japanese traditional martial arts (koryu) schools. 

Currently our Hombu dojo has 41 regular students.
But we don’t stop there. We aren’t fooling ourselves that it’s better to have a few good than many bad students. That is a loser’s justification. Bad students are indeed rare in our art, but we strive to make good people out of them too. We believe that bad teachers  that lose their students because they have nothing to teach them, are a bigger issue. Those seek afterwards followers who shall blindly seek their guidance and cherish their „pretty“ words. We do not produce blind followers – we create warriors (leaders).
This year we had one failure as well. Our dojo located in Bitola ceased working, or more accurately – never began to do so. In the future we should be more careful with whom we give our trust to. Contrary to that, we opened another Dojo in Skopje, which gave great results. The standards for opening a new Dojo will be far more strict from now on. The same strict standards that were set by the Hombu of Bujinkan Macedonia will be applied.
During 2009 we held two grade testings. Our Dojo is among those that pay special attention to the testing standard. For a shodan, the requirements are a minimum of five years of training without missin more than two classes a month (and we have about 14 a month). That means – a lot of effort and a sincere approach to the art. 
Among othe things, we held out traditional woman self-defense workshop,which
attracted a great deal of attention from the media here, by which we successfully presented our art and organization to the Macedonian public. We tried to present soke Masaaki Hatsumi in the grandest possible light.
We built our own Ninjutsu Training Center, in which we held a Ninja Camp. Our center, on our property. What took place their is impossible to describe in this little time and space. 24/7 Koryu Bujutsu and Ninjutsu. Incredible!
A few more statistical pieces of information about our work this year. From the 1st of January 2009, until today, our web page was visited  by over 12.000 people, among which the most regular visitors are from Germany, USA, Serbia and Croatia (sorted by number of visits). Of course, that isn’t really a large number, which one can „brag“ with – but considering that we don’t do any other type of self-marketing, the number isn’t that bad.
In 2010 we expect even better results. As always. Ninpo Ikkan!

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Yesterday, in the Hombu Dojo of Bujinkan Macedonia we held a testing for student degrees.
The 9th kyu test was passed by Tina D. Katerina D., Goran B., Goran M.,  Dragan M. and Anton P., while the test for 7th kyu was passed by Maja I., Igor S. and Miron C. For 5th kyu, the test was taken and successfully passed by the students Bojana G., Zoran T., Darko B. and Blagica S. Rightfully, the 3rd kyu degree was earned by Marjan P. and Marko O.
For their efforts, dedication and regular attendance and love for the art and school, certificates were given to the students Marjan P., Marko O., Darko B., Maja I. and Anton P. This year, our gratitude certificates for help and aid in advancing the Bujinkan Ninjutsu un Macedonia were given to Marjan P. and Darko B. (all the names awe written in short in out of respect and in order to keep their privacy).

Author koryuPosted on December 27, 2009Categories Home

As you may already know, soke Masaaki Hatsumi announced the theme for 2010, which is: Rokkon Shojo (purification of the six senses). This is a shugendo doctrine, which the older students of Bujinkan Macedonia have been studying for the last three years (see lower in our website).

Concerning the armed combat techniques (Buki Waza), during the year of the tiger (2010) our attention should be pointed towards the Tachi, a sword slightly longer than the katana which is carried with the blade facing downwards.

Because this is a new theme for us all, and it is possible for it to undergo some changes during the year (as soke often does), our focus in 2010 will be the school of Koto Ryu Koppojutsu (“Knocking down the Tiger School”). As for the Tachi, we shall fully accomplish the training with it, as we have a good amount of experience practicing it. For us, the first real experience with Rokkon Shojo will be gained during the seminar with the shihan Sveneric Bogsater in april, who is going to transfer to us a part of his knowledge regarding this theme.

The program for 2010 of Bujinkan Macedonia is already written on our website.

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During the holidays, The martial arts School Taiyou e no Michi – Bujinkan Macedonia isn’t going to work only on the 1st and the 6th of january, while regular training sessions will be held for the rest.
To all our members and friends, we wish you all the best in the new 2010. Merry Christmas!

Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu! 

Author koryuPosted on December 6, 2009Categories Home

Under the guidance of the instructor Igor Dovezenski and with the assistance of senior students, Marjan Proshev and Bojana Grunevska, today we held a woman self-defense workshop, organized by the Ninjutsu Union Bujinkan Macedonia.

Besides the female members of our club, we had additional attendees, who never had an opportunity to train martial arts of any kind. After the workshop was over, they all agreed that the techniques they learned here are completely useful an efficient.

The workshop began by studying the psychology
 of the male attacker, as well as the means and places at which it is most probable for an attack to happen over girls and women in whole. Afterwards we moved on to training techniques through different scenarios, like hand-to-hand attack, grappling as well as tries of ground submission in attempt of rape. The girls had an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the body positions which allow an easy defense and also, those that „close“ the opportunities of action.

It was wonderful to teach such a group, which was
 strongly willing to learn the ways and techniques of self-defense. Even though the training was physically hard and tiresome, physically and  mentally, the attendants showed great determination and talent by which they easily mastered all the techniques shown. During the entire training session, they were smiling and happy with what they learned, which of course, a great motivation for us to continue working and organizing Workshops dedicated to self-defense of the members of the gentler sex, who today showed that with little effort, if needed, they can become the stronger sex.