Monday 13 March 2023

 

As an appendix note, there is no plan, at the 15 year mark, to start any separate class or club, whether that be for Judo, a Ninjutsu club, a separate weapons club with armour sparring like a Kendo and Dog Brothers hybrid, or anything else

It's fun to play with these ideas as stories, but it is not something that would manifest in reality

The closest we have come is the separate Grass sessions, where we cover the traditional Ryuha in the original environment in parallel to the Class

If we keep this practice up over coming years as we take on new members, there would naturally be a point where the Members who take on the second session each week would not only progress faster than the once a week attendees, but would learn a lot of material, Kobudo and Ninpo in particular that the "Class Only" members did not receive

Though not something that would ever be planned for, this would organically develop a sub group with its own sub syllabus - which is how a new Ryuha with a new densho scroll was formed historically

Though we would never do it, if we took on Grass Only members, who never came to Class, that would be a new school, without a lot of Class elements such as KB and sparring

Historically, a lot of these new Ryuha developed spontaneously, sometimes out of circumstance, sometimes out of necessity

After all, we had a big significant development at the Grass Only club when we couldn't use a hall for a Class during the fake virus period - necessity, and now part of our History