shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/1903/mon-1-class-thu-grass
Trained in the Circle as the sun went down, some cloud cover above meant the usual sunset over the trees
Moved to big field under a huge full moon, minimal clouds, and moonlight right across the grass
Sunset Warriors
Moonlight Shadow Warriors
This was the best start to the Summer Season, and sets the precedent for the weeks to come, if it's a moonlit night move to the big field for the second half once the sun has gone down
Walk back on the moonlit path - GETSUMI NO MICHI
Joker got some great pics which he posted to the Group, the sunset, the moon, and a pic of Venus
ONSHINJUTSU Concepts covered, and Togakure NINJA movement, based on the Sword Gata
A decade ago, Summer Camp was a big event, a separate session disconnected from CLASS regular practice and progression
The first CAMP in 2009 was an outdoor Circle, the first of the Grass days that the new members got to try
2010 was at an indoor venue we acquired for the day, and we followed this with the Halloween Camp being indoors - these would be the only time we arranged indoors Camps, every Camp from then on would be outdoors, and we started to look more into KORYO and the use of the environments
Regular GRASS days over the next few subsequent years, at one point being almost one every month, evolved the Outdoor practice
In 2015 we called it the "Longest Camp Ever" as all training from May to October was Outdoors, twice a week, while we were between DOJO halls
Then came the most recent phase, starting in 2020 during the "virus", where we did more Outdoor than Indoor, and then found a balance between the two, one of each a week in the Summer of 2021 - a lot of the material we kept as "Grass" training, a lot of the Koryo from the old Ryuha, has now become common practice, and has crossed back to the Hall Class, a natural evolution
Recently we have not made CAMP a standout event, rather made it part of the flow of the Season so CAMP is held over a few Grass sessions, and will continue this Summer, just more refined from experience
www.shirotora.co.uk/stma-camp
Caterham Outdoor venue
Kempo Jujutsu
Newaza Ground series, grappling on grass, the original environment
Aiki Jutsu projections
Koryu and Ninjutsu systems:
Koto Ryu
Gyokko Ryu
Shinden Fudo Ryu
Kukkishinden Ryu
Takagi Yoshin Ryu
Togakure Ryu
- the use of Shuriken, Metsubushi, and Shuko in application of the Gata from the Densho
- Ninpo Biken, the Ninja To against the Samurai Katana
Komogakure Ryu
- the Ninja armour concepts and application
Gyokushin Ryu
- the sutemi and the use of short blades in close range on the ground - Knife Grappling
Gikan Ryu
- the unique Koppo Jutsu striking in application and the Mutodori
Unarmed Systems:
Kempo Form 5 – Striking Self Defence sets with Takedowns and finishes
Kempo Form 6 – Weapons defences – Stick and club, knife, gun
Aiki Jutsu – immobilisations and projections
Ninpo Taijutsu – sets from the different Ryuha, and Mutodori Sword Defence
Jiu Jitsu – Shoot and Clinch standing series, then Newaza Ground Fighting
Weapons to be covered:
Knife – both single and double
Kali sticks – single and double
Largo stick
Hanbo of the Kukkishin Ryu
Okinawan Bo staff and Tonfa
Japanese Bokken sword and Jo staff
We will reference the Kata for Okinawan Kama and Sai
We will reference the Kata for Japanese kusari, kusariKama, shoge - blade, cord, chain, sickle weapons
This Camp is open to all current members of STMA – we will also be inviting former members from the Caterham, Shirley and Sanderstead Dojos
Everyone will be welcome and everyone will have the chance to train in both old and new techniques and drill, with both old and new friends
As always our 3 objectives are the same:
Get a good workout
Learn something
Have fun!
As with recent years we are not focussing on one day as being The Camp day
Nor are we doing what we did in 2015 as the "longest camp ever" where we had no Dojo Hall Class and trained twice a week outdoors for several months
This again was contrasted with 2020 and the "virus" generating a lot of daytime training and then evening sessions with no Hall and everyone off work
(apart from Ice and Rogue who wanted us to go outside at 8pm and bang pans for them)
And of course the No Hall winter of 20/21 which generated an extended Winter Camp
We've gotten quite good at these over the years, better than most who try to incorporate outdoor training
And of course we acknowledge the Ryuha where ALL training was outdoors in the days before people built a dojo for training
And that battles were all fought outdoors - the original Arena
This Summer our CAMP will be again spread over several Grass evenings, and will include elements of the Moon, as referenced on earlier years - see below
We are planning Grass evenings around the Full Moon and the Supermoons, again see below, and this plan extends into the Hunters Moon of mid October
and maybe the Beaver Moon of mid November, though that would be well past Summer of course, though does tie in with the Halloween Camp of previous years, usually the last Outdoor evening of the year
So we list below what we publish each year for Camp, which is what we always print, and go from there
Post on Komorebi
shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/1927/komorebi
Blog:
whitetigermartialarts.blogspot.com/2023/08/komorebi.html
Sunset Warriors:
whitetigermartialarts.blogspot.com/2023/08/sunset-warriors.html
Moonlit path:
whitetigermartialarts.blogspot.com/2023/08/moonlit-path.html
