Late comers can still join us after Thursday but please contact us so that we can organize ourselves correctly.

See you there.

I want to join the jsc2010 now!

Soon we will meet for this 20th adventure of the Jupi Summer Camp! I came back from Japan a few days ago with a new vision on our art as usual. The time spent with sensei and the many classes we had there have shaped a new understanding that we will share together during the evening sessions and dinners.

Unfortunately (or not) I didn’t bring back the hot weather with me (the other day I gave a class at the hombuand the temperature was 39° centigrades! The hot weather is gone and we do not know if it will come back It will be much better for the training but it might get chilly in the evenings. So if you are beginning to pack your things maybe you should add some warm clothes.

This seminar is always for me like the apex of my year of teaching and draws the scheme of what the next season will be. It is a very special moment where teaching, training, exchanging and learning are all mixed together for the best possible outcome. The difficulty of this seminar doesn’t come from the training (waza) but from the fact that within the group gathered in that occasion a new vision of life is blooming and will change us in depth and make us happy.

As Hatsumi sensei put it last year: “missing a class is ok but missing a true moment of happiness is wrong”.

Rokkon shôjô!

with nagato sensei

In a little less than 3 weeks the JSC2010 begins!

The main concept we will deal with is “nagare” as we have to master our basics to be able to forget ourselves and flow mindlessly in the stream of budô.

Nagato Sensei has been insisted a lot in his classes about this in order to find the asobi, the playfulness required to stay alive in a real encounter.

JSC2010 Program:

• tenchijin basics
• tachi kumiuchi
• nagare
• and the last feelings from Japan!

I hope to see you there, committed and ready to unleash your potential.

last day JSC19

I received a question concerning the controls during the seminar.

I confirm that we will have 1 or 2 written exam a day like last year to learn the various contents and the various boxes of the ten chi jin ryaku no maki.

Last year the results of the first exam were 52% and the last one 87% of good answers. And I can assure you that the participants who attended the seminar last year still remember them today (yes, I checked).

Last detail: All classes are in English but the exams can be answered in French. Having said that all names are in Japanese…

rokkon shôjô by sôke (April 2010)

I am going to Japan now to train with sensei. I will be back at the beginning of August (9th) and will go around the 17th to the location for the JSC2010.

If you wish to reach me while in Japan use my gmail account or facebook.

Even when I’m out of the country I respect the “en no kirinai“.

Be happy

At the hombu dôjô

The Jupi seminar (named after the location hosting us and called the “jupillière”) is one of these seminars that made the legend of the bujinkan. Around 300 practitioners from all over the world have been attending the Jupi seminars over the years, and many more than once!

Over the last two decades I have organized this very special summer seminar to give the opportunity to a limited group of Bujinkan students to develop their personal understanding of our art and to ready themselves for the new season beginning in September. Too often we stop training during summer and lose the benefit of a long year of hard training. The Jupi seminar connects you to your dôjô through the summer trainig desert.

The first two editions of the Jupi (July & August 1993) lasted only 5 days. In 1994 I organized the two seminars in two consecutive weeks only separated by a Sunday. The majority of the people attending to the first seminar decided to stay for the second one.

Surprisingly we discovered that 2×5 was not equal to 10! I mean that when you are living together for 10 days of hard training, something beyond training is created, a sense of community allied to a deep discovery of oneself and a clear connection to your fellow buyu.

Until 2009, the “jupi seminar” as it was called lasted 10 days but with the original students became adults and had to deal with limited holidays and family obligations, and our original group got smaller and smaller. This is why this year for the 20th edition the jupi seminar begins and ends on a Saturday, making it easier for evryone to attend to it. Extra training time will compensate for the missing days…

Read in detail and carefully all the pages concerning this special seminar and if you feel you can make it, register online at www.budomart.com and be ready to discover who you truly are once your body is in pain and your brain totally fried.

This is not a holiday but a “helliday” and I can assure you that this is a seminar you will never forget!

Arnaud Cousergue

Bujinkan Shihan

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