What is Budo Taijutsu?

        Budo Taijutsu roughly translated as 'warrior skill with the body', forms the basis for all understanding in the fighting arts of Spirit Warriors Dojos. By concentrating on developing natural responsive actions with the body during initial Ninja training, one can use the physical lessons as models for psychological and tactical training in advanced studies. Budo Taijutsu is made up of methods for striking and grappling in unarmed fighting, ‘rolling’ and ‘breakfalls’, leaping and climbing, conditioning the body and maintaining health, as well as special ways of walking and running.

        Some of the more popular martial arts and 'martial sports' attempt to mold the practitioner’s ways of reacting and moving to fit a stylized set of predetermined movements. In effect they are 'adding to' the students total personality. The Taijutsu of Togakure Ryu Ninjutsu works in the opposite manner.  It naturalizes all movements by stripping away the awkward or unnatural movements that may have been picked up unknowingly over the years. As a fighting system, Taijutsu relies on natural body strength and resiliency, intuitive response, foot work, and the understanding of the principles, construction, and efficient employment of body dynamics. The students need not imitate some sort of animal, nor distort or deform the natural body structure in order to employ Taijutsu.  Both modern and traditional weaponry are taught extensively at the Dojo as well.