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They will often offer 3 month instructor training courses or black belt programs where you can fast track your progression to black belt provided that you pay an excessive premium for it. A McDojo is a martial arts school that has lowered its standards in favour of business practices to make as much money as possible out of teaching martial arts. Once you have been training in martial arts for a while you will inevitably come across the term McDojo.

Hopefully 2022 will bring new challenges and we can continue to grow the dojo and reach more students! This doesn’t mean that things have stopped though we are preparing to grade several of the students before Christmas ready to get back to training in January! We hope everyone has an excellent Christmas and New Year and want to thank you all for supporting the dojo throughout 2021 despite all of the challenges with coronavirus and the lockdowns. Overall 2021 has been very productive! Now with two weeks left and Christmas approaching everything is starting to wind down for when we close on the 23rd of December until the 6th of January 2022.

The students in the Shadow Warriors students continuously impress us and we are extremely proud of them! Parents of new students trying their first lesson are always commenting on how amazing they are diving over one another and they would put some adults to shame with the amount of exercise they do each lesson! It’s great to see the students so dedicated to training and progressing steadily during each lesson. We didn’t look at any kata actually engaging another swordsman though it was more about perfecting your movements and spiritual refinement. It was interesting to learn about the roles of the Kaishaku and how the level of the sword indicated the status of the person. I found Eishin Ryu to be very formal in it’s approach to teaching with the focus being on perfecting each movement with the sword and observing traditional Japanese etiquette. This was particularly interesting for me as we teach Kenjutsu in the dojo so it was great to try another style of swordsmanship. He related every kata to a historical story about how the technique was applied and i think quite a few of us got told that we would be dead upon messing up the techniques during training. Jason Hulott is an excellent teacher with a lot of knowledge about both Japanese and Western sword styles. Probably one of the most memorable techniques was simply sitting in Seiza No Kamae in the Eishin Ryu way lifting your body with the knees, it was extremely uncomfortable and everyone was suffering after doing it for a short while. The seminar ran over two days and looked at a wide variety of techniques and kata to disable and dismember your opponent.

I learnt that theres apparently a rivalry between Japanese Kenjutsu and HEMA instructors about whose style is superior which was a new one on me. We had an excellent turnout at the seminar with martial artists from various styles attending and even some HEMA people. We then hosted the Triple Threat seminar with Jason Hulott teaching Eishin Ryu Battodo and Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu, Tommy Joe Moore teaching combatives and myself teaching Kukishin Ryu Bojutsu and Sojutsu. However after the lockdowns we had a surge of new students! It seems they were dying to get out and try something different after being cooped up inside for so long which was great for the dojo! We unfortunately had a few students leave the dojo as their circumstances had changed during the lockdown but they are always welcome back with us in the future if they are able to attend the lessons.

It was great to see the students getting back to normal and training hard in the dojo. Then at the end of April the kids were allowed to return to normal lessons in the dojo which everyone was excited about.