Samurai Swording Fighting Trial Class - Katori Shintō-ryū Berlin

Name: Samurai Swording Fighting Trial Class - Katori Shintō-ryū Berlin
Start: 2024-09-02T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-11-18T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Belziger Str. 25

Schedule

Mon Sep 02 2024 at 07:00 pm to Mon Nov 18 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Belziger Str. 25 | Berlin, BE

[Registration required] Interested in Japanese sword fighting or Japanese culture? Come join a trial and experience the traditional Samurai
About this Event

**Please read the description carefully.

**Trial Fee: 20€/ session (1.5hr). Classes every Monday and Friday from 19:00 to 20:30.
!!SIGN UP HERE: Katori Shinto-ryū Berlin Sign-up (google.com) Registration is required before your participation so that we can prepare enough training equipment.
Address: Belziger Str. 25, 10823 Berlin.
No previous experience required! The classes are in English and German.
Our website: Kenjutsu Berlin - Official school of Katori Shinto-ryu in Berlin

Katori Shintō-ryū is one of the oldest Japanese sword fighting traditions (koryū) still practised today and is recognized by the Japanese government as a cultural intangeable asset. The school was founded in the middle of the 15th century by Iizasa Chōisai Ienao at the Katori Shrine (Katori jingū) and has become the origin of numerous other martial arts schools over the course of its almost 600-year history.

The training consists of the continuous repetition of fixed sequences of movements (kata) and includes the use of classic Japanese weapons such as the sword (iai-jutsu, battō-jutsu, ken-jutsu, ryōtō-jutsu, kodachi-jutsu), the long staff (bō-jutsu), the lance (naginata-jutsu) and the spear (sō-jutsu), as well as unarmed disciplines, tactics and spiritual aspects.

The Katori Berlin dojo is the only official shibu of Otake Nobutoshi-shihan’s dojo Shinbukan in Germany and fully dedicated to the transmission and study of one martial tradition: Tenshinshō-den Katori Shintō-ryū. Through these efforts we aim to contribute to the cultural preservation of this martial tradition. The dojo has one officially appointed shidosha.

Our sensei: Sebastian Graetz has been active in martial arts since 1997. After almost 15 years of taekwondo in Berlin, he started with Katori Shintō-ryū in Asia in 2014. Since then, he has studied in Japan with Ōtake Risuke-shihan and Ōtake Nobutoshi-shihan, and in Vietnam with Malte Stokhof-shihandai. In 2023, he received his Menkyo license and permission to set up a training group in Berlin the following year.