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MeleeECI
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This forum is fantastic!
I would like to give you a very short history of who I am and let you know I am going to be hanging around possibly lurking in the background for a long time now.
I have been in Martial Arts off and on since about 15 (I am 34 now). I have done Straight Karate (at 15 I didn't bother with history so I forget which kind of school it was) Then I went to EPAK Kenpo, then took a good size greak, then my son and I started Tae Kwon Do together. I currently do TKD and Hapkido but my business has fallen on some slow times and I can no longer afford to take the arts that I have been. I didn't want to quit but with no money they don't seem to want to train me ... go figure LOL.
So I figured at least I can train at home with some sort of video course. I spent at least 10-12 hours searching the internet for all kinds of programs. There are alot of absurdly ridiculous programs like the "Chief" Roman Kenpo crap where you get your diploma as soon as you sign up, I found a North Shaolin arts rank advancement program ...also a South Shaolin one, also Hapkido, TKD, about a billion different Kenpo ones, a couple Ninjutsu derivitaves (Van Donk and SKH), Hwa Rang Do "Chief" Romans hokey Indian system, Ju Jutsu and a couple others.
Out of all those courses I have come under the impression that SKH has the best quality program and the best quality life experiences to teach a program such as this. He seems to take attention to detail very seriously and he appears to have a good grip on the "why" of things. Per the reasons stated above I would like to continue training but cannot in a conventional way. I live in Portland Oregon and Jef Burgus has a TCJ Bujinkan here locally but still the cost is more than I can handle at this time. I suppose I am just looking for moral support in my decision to purchase the SKH program. After all the research and multiple hours (6-10 in last 2 days) on this forum reading posts from the traditional and SKH folks I still don't know what to think. I like to research an art and a teacher before I do anything but for my situation my options are very limited and I feel that I may have lucked out in that SKH is possibly one of the best and he has a course to suit my needs as they are at the moment.
After reading so darn many posts on this board I feel like I know what most of you are going to say but any advice would be read with an open mind.
1. What would you do in my situation? (always good to hear from someone with different life experience)
2. How legitimate is my education via my home study ninja kit
3. Is it better to do this rather than nothing, in your opinion?
p.s.... my son and I are going to take it together he is 9, also my family is going to start having a "Ninja" hour (90 minutes actually) every friday and Sunday where we all trian together. Only my son and I are interested in ranking at this point though. My son and I are going to train 5-6 days a week. ( yes I realize TSD is not Ninjutsu and that Ninja has a bad connotation to anyone but REAL ninjutsu trained folks .. but oh well)
thank you in advance
Brian
I would like to give you a very short history of who I am and let you know I am going to be hanging around possibly lurking in the background for a long time now.
I have been in Martial Arts off and on since about 15 (I am 34 now). I have done Straight Karate (at 15 I didn't bother with history so I forget which kind of school it was) Then I went to EPAK Kenpo, then took a good size greak, then my son and I started Tae Kwon Do together. I currently do TKD and Hapkido but my business has fallen on some slow times and I can no longer afford to take the arts that I have been. I didn't want to quit but with no money they don't seem to want to train me ... go figure LOL.
So I figured at least I can train at home with some sort of video course. I spent at least 10-12 hours searching the internet for all kinds of programs. There are alot of absurdly ridiculous programs like the "Chief" Roman Kenpo crap where you get your diploma as soon as you sign up, I found a North Shaolin arts rank advancement program ...also a South Shaolin one, also Hapkido, TKD, about a billion different Kenpo ones, a couple Ninjutsu derivitaves (Van Donk and SKH), Hwa Rang Do "Chief" Romans hokey Indian system, Ju Jutsu and a couple others.
Out of all those courses I have come under the impression that SKH has the best quality program and the best quality life experiences to teach a program such as this. He seems to take attention to detail very seriously and he appears to have a good grip on the "why" of things. Per the reasons stated above I would like to continue training but cannot in a conventional way. I live in Portland Oregon and Jef Burgus has a TCJ Bujinkan here locally but still the cost is more than I can handle at this time. I suppose I am just looking for moral support in my decision to purchase the SKH program. After all the research and multiple hours (6-10 in last 2 days) on this forum reading posts from the traditional and SKH folks I still don't know what to think. I like to research an art and a teacher before I do anything but for my situation my options are very limited and I feel that I may have lucked out in that SKH is possibly one of the best and he has a course to suit my needs as they are at the moment.
After reading so darn many posts on this board I feel like I know what most of you are going to say but any advice would be read with an open mind.
1. What would you do in my situation? (always good to hear from someone with different life experience)
2. How legitimate is my education via my home study ninja kit
3. Is it better to do this rather than nothing, in your opinion?
p.s.... my son and I are going to take it together he is 9, also my family is going to start having a "Ninja" hour (90 minutes actually) every friday and Sunday where we all trian together. Only my son and I are interested in ranking at this point though. My son and I are going to train 5-6 days a week. ( yes I realize TSD is not Ninjutsu and that Ninja has a bad connotation to anyone but REAL ninjutsu trained folks .. but oh well)
thank you in advance
Brian