Do your best to join us March 11th-14th, 2010 (Thursday night to Sunday eve) in beautiful San Francisco, CA as we have an exciting 2010 IBDA Tai Kai theme I'm calling "Perfecting Your Budo Taijutsu", which will of course include weapons training!! - so bring your toys. This once a year IBDA Tai Kai event will be limited in size to 40 people, including instructors.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME... NO MATTER YOUR STYLE OR SKILL LEVEL

Most all of our events sell out so take advantage and sign up now to reserve your place. (Many spots are already gone as people started booking in September).

Keep reading as I'll tell you more about the event below.

When I started to plan this Tai Kai event I wanted a very special special theme for this years training. As you may already know I like to give a theme focus to our events.…..

When I sat down to think about it I had this great brainstorm that lasted for several hours  - I mean I literally could not stop writing for almost 3 hours!

My brainstorm was triggered by asking myself this question:

“What are all the most important lessons of Budo Taijutsu ever taught to me by Soke Hatsumi over the last 25 years?”

This really is a great question to ask yourself at any time about the art you study. And when you have studied an art for over 25 years and have made over 50 trips to Japan to train with Soke Hatsumi and other Shihan this is a super question!

But I don't want to get off track here - most important to me were all the answers I got to that question and the method by which I got them.

They literally came flying into my brain and at first I wrote them down as bullet points - but then as I went back over the bullet points I received specific exercises on how to share these points with you.

Then I codified all the lessons into a progression of importance to detail it all out for anyone to learn them.

WOW! I have totally crafted a super cool event that really excites me and I can't wait to share with you all the insights that I have learned from my years of training with Soke.

I also contacted some other senior instructors and asked them this powerful question.

Being inspired by this they have all asked to share their knowledge of their 10 top most important insights as well.

This years instructors are as follows:

Shihan Richard Van Donk - Judan+++++

Shihan Dan Ordoins - Judan++

Shihan Joel Everett - Judan++

Shihan Jim King - 9th Dan

Shidoshi John Owsiak - 6th Dan

Shidoshi Carlito Flores - 6th Dan

Shidoshi Roman Marquez - 5th Dan

Shidoshi Charles Benham - 5th Dan

Shidoshi James Clum - 5th Dan

Shidoshi-ho Jamie Daiken - 4th Dan

Shidoshi-ho Theodore Schink - 3rd Dan

This event will be exciting and unlike any other. On my rough draft I called this one “The Master Secrets of Budo Taijutsu Tai Kai.”

However, thinking about it later, while that statement may be more than true, I always like to under promise and over deliver. For that reason I'm simply calling it “Perfecting Your Budo Taijutsu” and I absolutely intend to just over deliver as we usually do.

Do your best to join us for this Tai Kai - as usual it will be very informative and super fun... and we look forward every year to meeting new students and seeing old friends again!

Again, This event will be limited in size to about 40 people, including instructors. Most all of our events sell out so take advantage and sign up now to reserve your place.

I posted this years event early since many people have been asking to get signed up so that they will not be left out (as may have happened to some in the past.)

This will be a great event. See you there....

Check it out by clicking here: http://www.ninjutsu.com/tai-kai-events.shtml

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