Train with Weapons

Martial Arts Classes

Sensei Brooks teaches all martial arts students, personalizing to each's abilities.

Classes meet from 7:00-8:30pm, Tuesday and Thursday

Sensei Brooks whirling a full sized bo staff

Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu is one of the very few martial arts that incorporate the use of age-appropriate weaponry into normal training.

Don't Limit Your Training

If someone were to attack you, they will probably do it with some sort of weapon. If you don't train to defend against weapons, you won't be prepared for the most likely attack scenario.

Better Understanding of Martial Arts

Training with weapons teaches important skills aside from the obvious offensive and defensive benefits. Students gain an increased understanding of distance, timing, body structure and shape. They also learn to use weapons to influence opponents psychologically, since weapons attract an attacker's focus. In addition, we teach how to use an opponents' overconfidence in their weapons against them.

Safety First!

The most important concept of every martial art is, "Stay Safe!" The whole point of training in a martial art is to protect ourselves and those around us. We realize that training with weapons can be exciting and fun. However, in order to keep everyone safe, padded and dull training weapons are usually used in the dojo. Solid or pointed weapons are restricted to teens and adults. All students are taught to exercise extreme caution, care, and respect for others when handling any weapon.

Anything and Everything

Bujinkan students are very creative in their definition of the word "weapon". Since most people in our country do not walk around armed with guns, baseball bats, or samurai swords, we need to know how to use our training with common, everyday items. For example, if you know how to use a knife, what's to say you can't use your keys or a pencil to stab like a knife? Or say you don't happen to be walking down the street with a rope in your purse when you get attacked. Why not use the purse strap as a rope instead?

Your Arsenal

Here is a list of some of the most common weapons used in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu:

Projectile Weapons
Firearms	Shuriken	Blinding powder / Pepper spray
Alternatives: anything small that you can throw. Loose change, keys, pens, grass or gravel, baby powder, etc.