Greetings fellow Buyu, I hope all is well with each of you, your families, your work and your practice. We all certainly understand that what we do is not easy and requires a great commitment to find our own way and some small way to help others... so please allow me to offer you my congratulations and my thanks for your ongoing efforts to do something positive for yourselves, your families and the Bujinkan Dojo. In that respect, I have tried to make things a bit easier for us all with the creation of a new training Manual.  It’s called “Shapes, Changes & Ideas, an orientation to Bujinkan training”.

This booklet is a collection of thoughts, questions and experiences gathered together from my many years of training in our art.  It’s a non-dojo specific work, in that it’s not curriculum based and therefore can be used by any person who studies our method no matter what their own Dojo curriculum may be.  I believe everyone at every level of experience, be they 9th Kyu or 15th Dan, will benefit from this work and I am extremely happy to be able to bring it to our system.  I have included the table of contents below for you to check out and hopefully “wet your appetite” a bit in anticipation.   

We all know that as we grow older, each of us find a few moments where we are looking back at what has been and forward at what will be.  Water continues to flow under the bridge and I too find myself feeling the pull of “what can I do to repay, or offer back?” to the art that has been so instrumental in my own growth and life experiences.  This manual and the material to follow is my attempt at opening all the doors of my own experience trying to freely put forth all the written notes, hard earned experiences and critical observations from my many years of study with Hatsumi Sensei.

In the true spirit of openness and common effort, I hope that this manual brings you some measure of understanding, inspiration and joy.  I also hope that you would share not only this material with others, but continue to share those same elemental feelings that our art so genuinely professes as well. 

Again, please accept my most sincere thanks for your ongoing and daily efforts to simply Keep Going! 

Yosh!

Kevin Millis – Jugo Dan Happo Biken
Bujinkan Dojo International
武 神 館 道 場 

This manual and all other Bujinkan Millis Dojo materials are available at our web site www.kevinmillis.com

Table of Contents
                
- Foreword

- Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi, Bujinkan Soke

- Bujinkan Dojo Code of Conduct

- Bujinkan Dojo Gokui

- Bujinkan Dojo Kyu & Dan System

- Bujinkan Ryuha

- Bujinkan Grades & Grading

- Testing & Ranking

- Bujinkan Dojo Grade Recognition

- Choosing an Instructor

- Dojo Fee Considerations

- Dojos, Dojo Shibu, & Training Groups

- Menkyo Significance

- Training Tools & Equipment

- Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu

- Training Methodology

- Dojo Etiquette

- The Kamiza

- Bowing In & Shiken Haramitsu Daikomyo

- Acting As An Uke

- Junan Undo, Ryutai Undo & Shinkokyu Sanaden

- Kamae Gata

- Ukemi Gata

- San Shin No Kata

- The Kihon Happo

- Taihenjutsu Gata

- Hoko No Jutsu

- Randori Shizen Gata

- Godai No Kata

- Shizen Gyo Un Ryu Sui

- Ken Tai Ichi Jo

- Inryoku Gata

- Moguri Gata

- Uzumaki Gata

- Tatsumaki Gata

- Otoshi Uke Gata

- Inazuma Gata

- Hibari Gata

- Shippo Gata

- Shin Gi Tai Gata

- Shin Shin Shingon Gata

- Youth, Speed & Strength Vs Science

- Capturing A Techniques Essence

- Obtain The Total Value Of Training

- Kuden

- Gokui

- Complementary Training

- Learning New Concepts

- The Spiritual Warrior – Ninjutsu Vs. Ninpo

- What is Your Quest?

- Lifestyle Review

- Personal Life Test ~ “Your Body”

- Personal Life Test ~ “Your Mind"

- Personal Life Test ~ “Your Tao”

- Resources

- After Word

- Acknowledgements

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