Learn from the best: Join us for an exclusive 2 day seminar with one of the world's leading exponents of Jodo...Kayoko Ueda Sensei, Hachidan Kyoshi. This is Sensei's first time coming to Ireland, this is a history making event and not to be missed!
This 2 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.
Train hard, level up your skills and join us this on the 15th to 16th of April 2023 at the Marino Institute of Education, Dublin Ireland for 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. 😀
Be a Part of History
This is the first Jodo Seminar in Ireland with a Hachidan Sensei in Jodo, and Ueda Sensei's first time in Ireland. Let's give her a great welcome!
This event is also part of Kendo na hEireann's 20th Anniversary celebrations and marks the 5-year anniversary of Jodo in Ireland!
Come enjoy the beauty of Ireland, training in historic locations, with a full canteen service available, and be a part of Irish Martial Arts history.
We are pleased to announce as part of the 25th Anniversary of Kendo na hEireann celebration, the historic, 1st Jodo Seminar of Kayoko Ueda Sensei in Ireland, on 15th and 16th April 2023 in the Nagle Rice Hall, Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9, Ireland.
The Full Seminar includes full access to the seminar. Hot and cold meals are provided at cost at the canteen located onsite. Local B&B and hotel accommodation available at request.
Training Timetable
- 9.30 am to 12.30 pm/2.00 pm - 5.30 pm Saturday
- 9.30 am to 12.30 pm/2.00 pm - 5.30 pm Sunday
Dinner with Sensei? TBD
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