KATORI SHINTO RYU by Empty Mind Films

[@thefunfairvip]

I had the pleasure of training under the watchful eye of Otake Sensei for ten days in September 2015. It was an incredible experience. Thank you to all at the Shinbukan.

[@jileel]

This is fantastic. I've always been amazed how Japan even as an economic superpower has been able to keep their rich and beautiful cultural heritage.

[@marcusaurelius3487]

One day will come where they will sell their soul for cultural marxism

[@jileel]

@@marcusaurelius3487 doubtful parents have to pay for college here, theyll be damned if their kids come home with green hair lmao

[@fujiwaratsubasa9134]

You have to visit. It is more than money, it was a journey of the spirit.

[@SUM0X]

My respect to Otake Risuke-Sensei dedication to the art and tradition. I've seen videos of him from later years and all I can say is that his strong spirit keeps him young and the art alive!

[@Peekingduck]

I can not stop watching this... Just awesome! The best since BBC 2 Made 'Way of the Warrior' in the 1980's. It just doesn't get any better...

[@WrongDog1st]

Just the culture of this is beautiful, I mean something normal to them is so extraordinary to us, I just love it.

[@gomcse]

This style is simply amazing.

[@JaejoongPrincess]

I can't wait to visit this dojo next fall.

[@emptymindfilms]

It is featured in the movie: Art of the Japanese Sword documentary and available on DVD or download. Thank you.

[@statesrights01]

This vid. is just what I needed. Thanks so much for posting, so much wisdom and insight. Thanks again.

[@wingchunkuenchile4638]

Thanks For Sharing this video, Greetings from Chile.

[@lordtains]

Otake Risuke-Sensei... How old you have grown, and still practicing, I like seeing this! Love.

[@xxlotus8xx]

I own this DVD. Paul Martin did a amazing job gathering the resources of the artisans and Sensei's for this.

[@jayrunningbull]

thanks so much for your great video!

[@JustMeNoOther]

Thanks to share this video

[@Peekingduck]

Best so far. Gonna have to get this one !

[@Wookiesmurf]

Not accurate. AFAIK the 18. soke passed away without any heirs. There was a period where his top students kept the ryu alive before the 19. soke was adopted into the family. Both Otake and Sugino sensei's lineage stem from these students. Otake sensei is often portrayed as the main teacher, as he lives and teaches in Chiba prefecture (where the ryu originated).

[@thefunfairvip]

This is the best martial art in the world. Yes, I have taken the blood oath to learn this art and did so in the presence of Otake Nobutoshi Sensei when he came to Northern Ireland for a week. At 0:37 we see my own teacher, Jeffery Balmer, attending the school for tuition. He is the teacher at The Japanese Cultural Centre in Ballymoney, N.I., also the best martial arts school in the whole of Ireland. Thats me doing the fire jump, with J. Balmer in the back ground.

[@TheNEOONE1]

Fuck taking a blood oath and selling your soul to that old man. Follow your own path and get free.

[@thefunfairvip]

Thats why there are so many piss poor excuses for martial arts being taught by every Tom and dickhead without skill following their own path.

[@thefunfairvip]

That would be war that dictated the need for military skills not some jujitsu moron.

[@ishmyl99]

Those who haven't the discipline to exercise cool restraint and polite courtesy -- especially when there is no real threat to them -- reveal their own internal weaknesses. They are their own worst enemy.

[@thefunfairvip]

+ishmyl99 philosophising is for those with no real training to be getting on with!

[@dipchips]

Very true what my teachers says, specialy about bringing inconvenience to others etc. through politics etc. I think many people can learn from this message & start discovering the true spirit of Budo. Nice recording work.

[@ChenStyleJohn]

You do such beautiful work. Thank you for sharing your talent & passion!! :o)

[@marcellistvanhermann]

this is so good

[@gurandorin]

awesome video

[@oscarnotyourbuissines6027]

I've been training kendo for a time now but I really want to travel there and train with them instead because I like the feeling that I get from that place

[@ihatefakersandposers]

i would love to learn at a place like this! where they teach the philosophy of martial arts and not only the technique. To take the oath would somehow make any student to feel their commitment to the art and the virtues that the art demands to be followed. So they would really live as martial artists.

[@emptymindfilms]

In the USA, Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu is represented by Sensei Phil Relnick who is located in Washington state.

[@ninpobudo3876]

What about on Chicago?

[@z0t1]

amazing

[@davecarp]

Sensei, Dōmo arigatō

[@emptymindfilms]

All of our films are available for download in HD. Visit our website and click on download. Thank you.

[@Spooniferus]

Very nice!

[@volikoto]

this is the school that should be followed by the others!

[@mikenewell8961]

Very fascinating, it's always been my dream to study Aikido,and Kendo in Japan.

[@zenaku85]

+mike newell This art is more older than kendo.

[@mikenewell8961]

Freaking AWESOME! I have the highest regard and respect for this art and the practitioners.

[@zenaku85]

You should research Niten Ichi Ryu. very interesting

[@Darren_Tay]

+mike newell This is a koryu and is recognized as Japan's oldest historically traceable samurai school. Its inception is well over a few hundred years before both Aikido and Kendo. You should also look into either Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu or Muso Shinden ryu. Both schools are widely taught around the world and their arts are usually taught alongside Aikido and Kendo.

[@mikenewell8961]

Thank you all for the feedback I will do some searching, and studying. My body won't let me practice Martial Arts any longer, however I live ANYTHING to do with Japanese Martial Arts , or culture. Thanks again for the input.

[@VidaDeSuazo]

you guys need to make downloadable versions of ur films!

[@nickyfamini3706]

Wish we have it here in the Philippines...(sigh)

[@hpnghi19]

Going to get the wood sticks for my son and me for training!

[@herasmito]

Sugoi!

[@brettselby4076]

to keep their sword skills sharp... I Get it!

[@loknar86]

yeah thats true luckely in norway we have great senseis a married cupple where both hold 7 dan in this form and the women studyed under the master himself in japan

[@flowlee3656]

The music is in Seven Kingdoms, is it not? :D Oh the memories.

[@VladyslavShchelkov]

Hello I did not find KATORI SHINTO RYU film on your site, I wont to buy it

[@michaelsama28]

how about film with Masaaki Hatsumi and Stephen K Hayes??

[@sjames5694]

An incredible honor it would be to earn acceptance & be allowed to train there. Perhaps in the next life.

[@ylmzll]

Its never too late for anything.

[@sjames5694]

My folks were stationed at Misawa & Kadena AFB when I was in my pre-teens. Already been to Japan, already trained in Kenjutsu and Iaido, but I WAS referring to how I would've loved to train under THOSE particular Kensei. Since then, life has taken me elsewhere, and there is no longer any chance of living that dream. But thx for the thoughtful input.

[@ylmzll]

I am a student in TSKSR but not in japan. and i ve never been to Japan nor i cannot go there in the future i believe. As i am sure you ll have a chance someday. I will too. Maybe see you there? :D

[@DanTheShotokanKid]

does anyone know wheer i can make on fo those oaths? at 3:50

[@marianaurel]

The blood oath contradicts the oath itself.

[@kaynemunroe]

man wear can i sign up. wear is the web site

[@kaynemunroe]

were is the japan head quarters

[@primuslicnl9290]

Soke Otake Risuke has passed away at the age of 95.

[@emptymindfilms]

Yes, so very sad. So many great martial arts masters have been taken this last year.

[@hpnghi19]

1:34 un necessary movements by that student “ should use a band to holding tide the glasses 👓! Everything counts. 😅

[@MrBrawlerkid]

E X C E L E N T

[@carloshenriquethomaz2578]

who can train tenshin shoden katori shinto ryu,any gender,nationality,race/ethnicity,age?

[@carloko08]

I understand completely your point, really, actually I think in the same way but with some reserve, you see, the good things must be copy and practice, example; I am not brit, but I think that the correct way to speak in english is the ENGLAND way, not scottish or eire because they not have the same origin, so martial arts or whatever maybe be worth to practice when are excelent things to do, like Flamenco dancing, or write in cyrilic characters being a brazilian, that is, well, grettings

[@andrewichigo]

I wonder why they keep coming back to Otake, Sugino is the real heir to the former master.

[@djrinpoche]

Arigato daimas

[@jamiemattinson]

Does he mean samurai did not enroll in martial arts during the warring states period? I don’t understand. Did samurai not practice martial arts when they were actually used for battles? Or did they just only actually begin to really refine these martial arts after the period of real war was over?

[@toraguchitoraguchi9154]

Jamie Mattinson It was a Shrine..that's why samurai did not enroll.

[@LucasHenrique-it2io]

i didn't understand... katori was founded in sengoku era (130 Years of war)... and only 1 person died? the samurai didn't enroll in this school in sengoku era? only in Edo era? so, the techniques of this school almost never was used in a real fight? tsukahara bokuden (founder of kashima shinto ryu) practiced katori... and he killed more than 200 people in 37 battle fields... and some people of Shinsengumi trained Katori too.. and they fought in Bakumatsu war...

[@krombopulosmicheal2436]

No, he said only 1 out the 7 famous swordsmen died using it. The reason people didnt enroll during the warring states period is simple, everybody is fighting. During a time of war is the best time too find out what works and what doesn't through warfare so there's no reason to sign up and who ever survives passes down those techniques in times of peace. It was a way to keep knowledge of what they learned.

[@LucasHenrique-it2io]

@@krombopulosmicheal2436 There are some few koryu that are almost the same age of Katori shinto ryu, (like Tatsumi ryu , Takenouchi ryu and Kashima Shinto ryu),So, few Samurai practiced those schools too?

[@christianv-h3278]

It resembles Iaijutsu yet is older than that sword art. Is this form a Ryu of Battôjutsu?

[@LucasHenrique-it2io]

it's a sōgō bujutsu, meaning that it teaches several different weapons/arts such as jujutsu, bōjutsu, naginatajutsu, kenjutsu,battoujutsu and shurikenjutsu...

[@ronin0726]

That's why I hate MCDojos sprunging up in every corner of the city teaching "martial arts" for a living from "experts" who just watched a Jet Li film and no known expertise in reality or who were in their childhood were deprived of reality of becoming ninjas and samurais when they grow up. TSKSR is really a Japanese legacy not just for Japan but for the whole Martial Arts World!

[@Jericho11894]

I think it's funny how they use the same word arrangement and script from the "way of the warrior: Shinto Ryu, The Samurai Way" documentary. Just saying

[@teslic100]

the teacher has grown old compared to the bbc documentary

[@leich1m]

@ihatefakersandposers I'm afraid that it's nearly impossible for us mortals to study in Japan. It's by invitation only. To get invited, you will need to be introduced, by impressing the right people with your skills. Ichi-dan won't cut it.

[@harpseal9234]

A blood oath..?? Deep stuff

[@beedoubleu]

zanshin

[@zenaku85]

One of them need to improve his posture

[@fnikitathomas]

why do white anglo saxon protestants listen to rap? they aren't "street", have never been arrested nor oppressed for no good reason... and then they attempt to be ghetto? maybe some want to share in something outside their experience and feel connected to the human condition as a whole and not a separate culture... btw i study iaido and kenjutsu and i'm black. go figure...

[@TheFilthdog]

Why do westerners want to DO this? Gaijin in these very traditional arts? How can these people really 'study' this in America or anywhere outside of Japan? It's missing the point. Why pollute a cultural heritage and artform as special as this with western 'ninja fanboy' roleplaying. Can't you just watch, read and enjoy it. You are not Samurai, you don't understand Buddhism, Shintoism or Japanese thinking and never fully can or will. (btw, I'm British so this is NOT racism). Great vid tho.