Bujinkan Santa Monica

What can you learn from the Rojodojo membership program? or, Why start an online membership? I have been training all of my life. Started in 1985. Around that same time, I also got into film and video production. So when I began teaching Bujinkan and started my own dojo, It seemed like a natural thing to make training videos. I assumed I would put them out as DVDs. I even made some with chapters, extras (remember those?) and gave them out. But, this was the era of Netflix and streaming video. Many people were abandoning DVDs and VHS was already a dinosaur. Then my next thought was how can I stream these training videos? I put a few on youtube, a few on amazon, and I quickly realized it was a full time job. Between the teaching of classes, the video production, post production, streaming setup… And the equipment wasn’t free either. I knew I had a few friends from my mailing list and from social media who might be interested. So I set up the streaming on my new website Rojodojo.com and I...

Welcome to my blog. I teach Bujinkan Taijutsu in Santa Monica. If you are in the Bujinkan, you may already know me, so Hello! Michael If you are new to this training then welcome. This blog will be my personal training log. Training in any martial art is a very personal and subjective experience. What you get from training is something only you yourself can measure. I have taken this measurement for myself for over 24 years in the Bujinkan. I run my class in Santa Monica in a personal way. I model my class after the example of my teachers: Peter Crocoll in AZ, Hatsumi Sensei and the Shihan in Japan. But there are many teachers in the Bujinkan. All of my friends, teachers, students, and training partners have taught me the richness in this art is not in technique, but in one's heart. Shinbo Ikkan!