BOOKING DEADLINE - 30TH NOVEMBER 2019
ONLY 5 3 PLACES REMAINING. Book Now to Secure Your Place.
Learn from the best: Join us for an exclusive 3 days residential training with one of the world's leading exponents of Jodo...Kayoko Ueda Sensei, Hachidan Kyoshi
This 3 Day Seminar intensive training is suitable for both complete beginners and advanced students of Jodo, featuring the highest level of detailed training and practical application from one of the finest Jodoka in Japan.
In addition, there will be the stretching programs led by the Elena West Sensei, and a full raft of relaxation facilities in the renowned spa.
Train hard, level up your skills and relax and unwind in the beautiful scenery of Devon in the UK, 7th February to 9th February 2020. Meals, accommodation, full spa facilities, and some of the best Jodo training of the year.
Jodo is the way of the stick, and is a comprehensive martial arts system teaching you how to fight with a 4 foot staff. This seminar is perfect for complete beginners to the martial arts, and for those more familiar with martial arts who want to learn a new art with the most common and versatile weapon available. You'll also learn the art of Japanese Swordsmanship along the way!
During this Seminar You Will Learn...
The Essential Skills to Level Up Your Jodo
- The 12 Fundamentals Movements of Japanese Staff Fighting and Self Defence
- How to use a 4 foot staff to parry, deflect, trap and control, strike, thrust, push and throw an attacker, from multiple directions and from multiple attacks
- How to cut and thrust, and block and deflect attacks with a Japanese Sword
- Detailed kata, working with a partner, to develop distance, timing, cooperation and communication along with realistic fighting skills and much more.
New Fun and Exciting Training Methods
Ueda Sensei is an innovative and exciting teacher who always brings unusual practice methods to her classes. Over the years she has taught us:
- Tenouchi (grip control) through dribbling basketballs
- Hasuji (blade alignment) through various striking drills.
- She has taught how to fold and make origami targets and her walking drills are like learning line dancing. 😀
Techniques to Help You Train for Life
Each Seminar Elena West Sensei teaches stretching and exercises helpful to maintaining general health and some specific to Jodo training. This session is not one to be missed, leaving you feeling loose and rejuvenated.
Follow the stretching session with a dip in the pool, relax in the Jacuzzi and Sauna and enjoy the water jet massages in the Okehampton Spa.
All of this is included at no extra cost.
BOOKING DEADLINE - 30TH NOVEMBER 2019
ONLY 5 3 PLACES REMAINING. Book Now to Secure Your Place.
We are pleased to announce the 6th annual Jodo Gasshuku in Okehampton, Devon on 7th-9th February 2020 in the Ashbury Hotel Golf Courses, Fowley Cross, Okehampton, UK.
Please select one of the following options (after payment please click "Return to Merchant" to fill out our online registration form to complete your booking):
The Full Seminar (and Deposit) packages include accommodation, food and training. With full access to the gym, swimming pool, Sauna, and other leisure facilities at no extra cost.
All residents will share twin or double rooms as appropriate. (There are a very limited number of single rooms as noted above).
Training Timetable
- Training will be 3.00 pm - 6.00 pm Friday
- 9.30 am to 12.30 pm/2.00 pm - 5.30 pm Saturday (The dojo will be available from 6.30 am for free practice)
- 9.30 am to 12 noon/1.30 pm - 4.00 pm Sunday (The dojo will be available from 6.30 am for free practice)
The seminar will begin informally Friday afternoon (7th February). You can check in after 3.00 pm and come to the dojo where you can meet the sensei and have an informal practice.
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