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Hosting a Seminar Course

By Jaimie Lee-Barron FIMAS

Hosting a Seminar can be quite a nerve-wracking event for a local club instructor. You are hosting a senior grade, specialist instructor or some other form of martial arts VIP. They are going to have to travel quite a distance to visit and teach at your dojo. All of your students are very excited, looking forward to training with this person (s) and you find yourself getting a bit worried about doing the very best job you possibly can so as not to let anyone, either the VIP or your students, down in any way at all.

Here are some helpful tips to try and make the event a lot less stressful and a lot more of a succes

The History of Ju Jitsu and It’s Journey to our Shores

Prof. Kevin Pell FIMAS

This paper will seek to trace the colourful journey of what has become universally known as the art of Ju-Jutsu, commencing with a brief overview of its origins to its eventual arrival on English shores in the closing years of the nineteenth century, in particular to the historical foundation stone laid down by Yukio Tani of the Tenjin Shinyo Ryu.

It will then go on to explore the deeper combative elements of Ju-Jutsu, and investigate what sets it apart from many of the modern day sporting martial arts and will finish with an insight in to how a number of modern day practitioners feel with regards to many of our long established martial arts being led down a path of abuse and destructive commercialism.

The Martial Science of Boxing and its contribution to Military Close Combat

Prof. J Lee-Barron FIMAS

This paper will examine the more obscure aspects of Boxing as a martial science. It will illustrate that the martial history, tradition and virtue of boxing is an undeniable fact albeit one that is rarely. If ever, seriously acknowledged and understood.  It will concentrate upon the military applications rather than the normal sporting elements (although it will touch upon certain aspects of sporting competition where deemed appropriate) demonstrating how it has been an integral part of the training of a warrior since ancient times.

It will explore how it was used to develop “fighting spirit” and” how it has continued in contributing to the origins and development of modern military close-combat techniques in much the same way as some oriental martial arts.

The origins and development of the Daito Ryu Bu Jutsu

By Prof. George Scarrott FIMAS

This paper will trace the beginnings of what has come to be known as the “Aiki Bu Jutsu” martial art, examining its origins as a closely guarded “military secret” of the Minamoto, through the bloody testing-ground of the “Sengoku Jidai” (warring-states period) and the terrible costs of the Gempei war, which saw the ascension of the powerful and warlike Takeda family. It will show how this art continued to develop throughout the Shogunate period and well into the Meiji restoration. It will show how one of the last great warriors, Minamoto Sokaku Takeda, witnessed the futile Satsuma rebellion and, with it, the twilight of the Samurai, and through a great effort, managed to bring this deceptively beautiful martial art into the “modern” world