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About this taikai:
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The first Irish Bujinkan Dojo Buyu Taikai will take place on Saturday, December 1st 2007 to celebrate Hatsumi Sensei's martial art in Ireland as well as the spirit of buyu, (martial friendship) amongst practitioners of this martial art in Ireland. All instructors in Ireland of Judan (10th dan) rank and above have been invited to attend and share their interpretations of this year's theme of Kukishin Ryū and Kuki Taisō.
Hatsumi Sensei has given his full backing to this taikai. During a discussion with him in September, he said that he thinks it's an excellent idea and he's very happy it's going ahead. Building a strong community spirit is of particular importance in the Bujinkan and he's very happy to see taikai like this start to happen in various countries around the world. In particular, he wanted people in Ireland to know this Irish taikai has his full support. This event now has Soke's official blessing and so should be a landmark event for the Bujinkan in Ireland.
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Teachers taking part:
This seminar has total support from the Bujinkan community
in Ireland.
Those teachers giving their time to take part include:
Shidoshi Alan Butler
Shidoshi Steve Byrne
Shidoshi William Doolan
Shidoshi Marcus Dwyer
Shidoshi Alan Hughes
Shidoshi Tommy Lawlor
Shidoshi Alex Meehan
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Date and venue:
By arrangement with Alan Butler and the Bujinkan Butler Dojo, this event will take place at:
The Scout Hall
Watery Lane
Clondalkin
Dublin
on Saturday
December 1st
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Costs:
All teachers taking part in this event are giving their time for free, while
participants will be charged €30 for the day’s training. Participants
can pay their fees on the day at registration in cash, or
they can use a credit card to pay fees in advance online by clicking here.
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Equipment:
Given that the theme for this year's Bujinkan training is Kukishin Ryu,
it's advisable to bring bokken (wooden training sword), rokushakubo
(6ft staff) and hanbo (3ft staff), along with a fukoro shinai (padded
training sword), if you have them. Please do not bring metal swords.
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2007 Buyu Tai Kai Timetable, Saturday December 1st, 2007
| 9.30 am | Registration opens |
| 10.15 am | Shidoshi number 1 |
| 10.55 am | Shidoshi number 2 |
| 11.35 am | 15 minute break |
| 11.50 pm | Shidoshi number 3 |
| 12.30 pm | lunch |
| 1.45 pm | Shidoshi number 4 |
| 2.25 pm | Shidoshi number 5 |
| 3.05 pm | 15 minute break |
| 3.20 pm | Shidoshi number 6 |
| 4.00pm | Shidoshi number 7 |
| 4.40 pm | Finish |
(The teaching order will be decided at random on the morning of training.)
In order to facilitate a very packed schedule, it is ESSENTIAL that people are in the hall, changed, warmed up and ready to train at 10.15am sharp. The hall be open from 9.15am on Saturday morning, so please ensure that you leave enough time to register and change. Similarly, we need to be ready to start training after lunch at 1.45pm sharp. You might consider bringing a packed lunch as a time saving measure.
Also please note that only soft cotton or leather-soled indoor tabi or clean socks can be worn on the mats in the training hall. No trainers please.
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Fund raising:
All profits from this event will be donated to the Medical Missionaries of Mary, a charity that helps provide education and medical relief to adults and children affected by the AIDS virus in sub-saharan Africa, and Milawi in particular. Full details of all monies raised will be posted here after the event.
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Tee shirts:
A limited number of 35 heavyweight event t-shirts will
be available for sale on the day,
priced at €20 each, with all
profits donated to charity.
(These will be sold on a first come, first
served basis on Saturday morning)
Front print
Back print
(This design may be subject to change)
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Christmas party & bonenkai :
Following on from last year's extremely successful Christmas party, we will once again hold our annual party and Bonenkai (say-goodbye-to-the-year party) at Hosen Restaurant in Temple Bar from 8pm on. There will only be room for 100 people to attend this party, so if you would like to attend, make sure you reserve a place by contacting your instructor (who will in turn liase with the organiser Ian Hickey).
Alternatively, you can use the discussion forum at www.happobiken.com to express interest. The cost of the evening is 40 euro, payable fully in advance to Ian, through your instructor. (Special thanks to Ian Hickey for his hard work in this area.)
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Raffle:
We will also be holding a raffle in aid of charity at this party. The full list of prizes for this raffle will be added at a later date, but already we have some fantastic top prizes. Hatsumi Sensei has specially painted three large-scale sumi-e black ink kakejiku hanging scrolls specially for this raffle
Paintings of this kind by Soke are extremely rare and very
valuable. We asked him if he would consider creating one for us as a
special favour and instead he insisted on giving us three, as a token
of his support. All three are painted on extremely good quality art stock
paper, and are over 5ft long, fully mounted in kakejiku scroll form.
We are reliably informed that they are worth around €1300
each, so whoever wins the first, second and third prizes should be very
happy.
There will be many more prizes on offer. More details on this to come.
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(This page last updated November 29th, 2007)