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    Ninpo Taijutsu (Ninjutsu) has been teaching Martial Arts in Bristol since 1985

    This is not a sport, we only teach Martial Arts for self protection and self improvement.

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    • Etiquette
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    • The begining written by Andrew Pearcy
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N I N J U T S U

 

BRISTOL RYUIKI DOJO

 

 

The art of Ninjutsu has been written about, talked about and had so-called

films made about it for the past fifteen years or so. Most of the films

have had nothing to do with the art of Ninjutsu at all.

 

In Bristol for the past six or seven years there have been a few

practitioners who have been training in the art, and like the true ways of

the Warriors have kept very quiet and very unnoticed in their endeavours.

This is not an exercise to try and demonstrate what a fantastic club there is

down here, this is merely my own view of the art of Ninujutsu and a way of

trying to put across just what an instructor goes through to keep a club

intact and active, also it is a way of thanking my instructor Mr John

O'Connor, for all the endless hours of training to bring us all to the

standard we are quite proud of.

 

The Bristol Ryuiki Dojo was started by John in November 1989, prior to

this he trained with various exponents of Ninjutsu i.e. Phil Mullins, Peter King,

Chris Rowethe, and notably Dave Heald . John also trained at many Tai

Kai with Hatsumi sensei.

 

I met John when we both worked for the same Company doing Industrial

cleaning back in august of 1983, it turned out that we both had an

interest in Karate. I asked him if we could train together and we got

permission to use a small room next to the canteen during our lunch

break. When we first started training John told me the first thing I

had to do was to learn to block properly. For two months I did nothing

but block John's kicks and punches as he came at me time and time

again, the one thing it did teach me was to block effectively rather

than to suffer the pain and bruises placed upon me by John during those

first two months. John did a fair bit of teaching in that small room

mainly I think because he just liked to teach. We progressed from the

room by the canteen to a garage at the back of John's then flat.

 

He carried on teaching Karate to anyone who he thought were of the

temprament to learn without taking it onto the street, but I always got

the feeling that there was something missing.

 

At one stage John more or less vanished from the scene of training and

I supposed he was just growing out of it like most people do at some

stage or another, but no, John had found a Ninjutsu club somewhere

and had been training there for some time before I found out

about it, I think it was around the time so-called films were being

made about it and there was a slight stigma about the art(to an extent

even today a lot of people scoff at Ninjutsu, but thats another story).

 


 

John enjoyed his new found art and could not get enough information on

it. I'm not quite sure how it happened but after a couple of years John

was becoming a bit dissillusioned about the way he was being taught the

art at the club he was at, so, he decided to travel about to other

clubs and go to as many seminars as he could. At one of these seminars

he met an instructor, Dave Heald, who John thought was different in

some way, different enough for John to rekindle his interest.

What was missing at the club he was at was the fact that most of the

things he learned were based very much on Taijutsu, he had never been

shown how to use a bo-staff or a hanbo properly until he attended one

of Daves seminars. From then on John tried to get to as many seminars

as he could that Dave was instructing at so that he could pick up as

much as possible about the true art of Ninjutsu. Shortly after that

seminar John left the club he was at, taking with him K Robins and Pete

Savva.

 

I personally think that if it wasn't for John meeting someone like Dave

Heald he may have left the art, and that would have been a great loss

because the club would not have formed.

 

Like most Ninjutsu practitioners, he is quiet in his thoughts and fluid

in his way adapting to any situation without thinking about it. What

also may help John is the fact that he had his own driving school so he

was constantly teaching people, whether it be to drive or to follow the

Warrior ways. When the club first started I was the first student to

join this very different (and special) of the martial arts. I started

martial arts when at 14 I saw (you've guessed it) a Bruce Lee film,

Enter The Dragon, at our local British Legion Club. Bruce had and still

has such a presence about the way he moves that even today's martial

artists cannot even come close to the standard of technique and finesse

that Bruce had.

As time went by I did a bit of Judo and Kung-fu (mainly street level

stuff as with having five brothers and sisters my parents couldn't

afford to pay for classes at a proper dojo), but it wasn't until I met

John that I started to get involved in a more serious way in the

Martial Arts as a whole.

 

 

Getting back to the main point, John opened the club as

I said in November of 1989 and since then has been trying to keep it

running with the help of his students and the British Bujinkan

Federation.

 

The way John trains his students is so different in other ways that I

have seen from numerous other clubs I have been to (even Ninjutsu

clubs).

When someone comes in off the street John takes a break from the

class at an appropriate time and talks to them to make them feel at

home. He then gives them a brief history about the art and discusses

with them what they want from a club of this nature.


 

Most people who come to the club for the first time expect something

spectacular to happen i.e. people jumping throw the air with masks on

and throwing stars and things like that, but of course nothing could be

further from the truth. If people are watching John can almost sense

what the person is looking for and acts accordingly. A small example

of how calm and controlled he is is given in the account that follows.

About two months ago a couple of people turned up to look at the club,

they at first seemed to be interested in the art of Ninjutsu as they

were just sat there watching patiently. After about five minutes John

finished what he was demonstrating and left us to train with our other

instructor Keith Robbins. A short while after John had been talking to

these people I had a feeling things weren't as they seemed, one of the

men was getting a bit heated and emotional(its the sort of feeling

everybody gets when they can sense a situation is getting worse than

just a friendly chat).

It turned out these men were from a club about twenty miles away and a

different style and they wanted to try us out so to speak. John

basically told them in as calm a way as possible that they were wasting

their time and that they would not provoke any member of the club into

a situation because there was no situation to be had. I felt that if

it was not for John's calmness and control the situation would have

developed and we as a club would be discredited for breaking one of the

most important vows of all Martial Arts, being that in any situation be

it on the street, in the home or in office if at all possible avoid

actual combat.

 

John is also a great analyst in that like most Martial Artists he

breaks down every technique he demonstrates or is shown and puts across

in such a way that even the very beginners can find quite easy to

follow, maybe not so much in their body movement (which comes in time)

but in the actual basic technique.

He also tries his best to put across the philosophy of Ninjutsu in a

way that all people can understand, there is a distinct feeling when

you train with him that he is trying to teach you to the best of not

just your ability as a student but to the best of his ability as an

instructor of the the Art of Ninjutsu. There have been and will be

times at the club when attendance is low and students come and go like

at all clubs, but John just seems to carry on going regardless of how

many people turn up for the class. He teaches at the club every

Thursday at which he charges a nominal fee to cover the hiring of the

dojo, apart from this he does not charge for any other training, be it

at weekends or in the middle of the week. He is not in the art for

monies sake like a lot of instructors of other styles and of Ninjutsu,

he trains people because they want to learn the art of Ninjutsu. He

doesn't know that I am writing this letter to you and I would be

grateful if he didn't find out as he finds it very difficult to accept

praise from his students.

 

I would just like you to know that the art of Ninjutsu is one of the

best things that has happened in my life and it is forever changing

like the wind but I think changing for the better especially if we had

more instructors as conscientious and easily approachable as Mr J J

O'connor (4th Dan Shidoshi-Ho).

 

Andew pearcy

 

 

 

 

 



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