I am just starting and have found the dojo I will be attending from now on. Curious though, as 3 different somewhat local dojos I attended, all Bujinkan based, the training and classes are nothing like I knew back in the early 1980s when I was a teen and took Karate or Kung Fu classes.
By Ad Hoc, I mean, classes seem somewhat "unorganized". I was used to going to class in the 80s, have certian stretching at the beginning, then class broke up and various teachers would continue showing you training for where you are in class, beginner, intermediate, black belt, etc... So organized in a sense you had certain things you needed to learn and you stuck to that training to get things right and then moved on.
So far in Bujinkan, for example my 1st official class at the dojo I am joining this last week, we jumped all over the place. Started out OK bowing in, although I just mimicked what others were doing and not shown what I am doing, saying, and why. Then did some very basic exercise stretching. From that point class was all over. From some rolling to weapons to ichimongi to etc etc etc. So many things I kind of forget what we all did.
It just seemed like we touched ever so quickly on things there was not much time to comprehend the whys and all that. I probably came away with a little on what classes will be like but... Just seemed all over the place and this was the same at all 3 dojos I checked out.
Not saying I did not have fun but it is different. So, I called it "Ad Hoc" training.
Anyone else need "a long" time to get used to this? Did after a time you actually feel like you soaked things in and learned valuable stuff?
tj
By Ad Hoc, I mean, classes seem somewhat "unorganized". I was used to going to class in the 80s, have certian stretching at the beginning, then class broke up and various teachers would continue showing you training for where you are in class, beginner, intermediate, black belt, etc... So organized in a sense you had certain things you needed to learn and you stuck to that training to get things right and then moved on.
So far in Bujinkan, for example my 1st official class at the dojo I am joining this last week, we jumped all over the place. Started out OK bowing in, although I just mimicked what others were doing and not shown what I am doing, saying, and why. Then did some very basic exercise stretching. From that point class was all over. From some rolling to weapons to ichimongi to etc etc etc. So many things I kind of forget what we all did.
It just seemed like we touched ever so quickly on things there was not much time to comprehend the whys and all that. I probably came away with a little on what classes will be like but... Just seemed all over the place and this was the same at all 3 dojos I checked out.
Not saying I did not have fun but it is different. So, I called it "Ad Hoc" training.
Anyone else need "a long" time to get used to this? Did after a time you actually feel like you soaked things in and learned valuable stuff?
tj