Bujinkan Budō Taijutsu Kaeru Dōjō

Bujinkan Budō Taijutsu Kaeru Dōjō The official page of the Kaeru Dōjō teaching the
Bujinkan Budō Taijutsu system of martial arts in Torquay, Devon.

Teaching traditional samurai and ninja arts of Japan as passed down from the Bujinkan system in the South West of the UK.

To be effective with weapons, you must have effective unarmed skills. All skills feed each other in the study of budō.Th...
30/09/2026

To be effective with weapons, you must have effective unarmed skills. All skills feed each other in the study of budō.

The final week of the month is always dedicated to the various Buki (weapons) of the Bujinkan. This month we will be looking at the Jutte (iron truncheon) and how the techniques should be natural.

Why not come along to the dōjō and learn the skills of the ninja and samurai?

"Making mistakes is unavoidable". This is a simple fact of human life. To learn, to grow, we must make mistakes and chan...
23/09/2026

"Making mistakes is unavoidable". This is a simple fact of human life. To learn, to grow, we must make mistakes and change.

If we want to get good at something we first need the courage to be terrible at something. Then we can be bad at it. Then good. It is that simple. All it takes is consistency.

Come along to the dōjō and learn what you are capable of.

18/09/2026

In the dōjō we say that kata is not how to fight, but the how of fighting.

These are lessons to be protected, shared, and learnt, not precise movements to replicate in a fighting situation.

Hatsumi Sōke often talked about not teaching us to fight, but to move naturally. That when moving correctly you do not n...
16/09/2026

Hatsumi Sōke often talked about not teaching us to fight, but to move naturally. That when moving correctly you do not need strength to survive conflict, for what good is strength when you no longer have it?

This month's theme of Shinden Fudō Ryū links in to this idea as a key concept of the school is to move naturally.

Why not come along and try out the training?

The writer J.R.R. Tolkien talked about how it wasn't extraordinary people that made the greatest change, but ordinary pe...
09/09/2026

The writer J.R.R. Tolkien talked about how it wasn't extraordinary people that made the greatest change, but ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

This applies to martial arts. Many times we hear something along the lines of "once I am at this stage with my fitness, then I will train", or "if I get into a bad situation, then I will train". But all it takes is for us to make one little change each day to slowly improve upon ourselves.

To train a little in our ordinary lives can lead to extraordinary changes. To ourselves and to those around us.

Why not come along to the dōjō and find out how you can change and get better?

08/09/2026

En las artes marciales, y especialmente en el camino de la Bujinkan, crecer no significa solamente acumular técnicas, grados o conocimientos. También significa aprender a trasladarse.

Hoy vivimos rodeados de imágenes: miramos videos, observamos fotografías, compartimos contenidos y vemos entrenamientos de otros. Todo eso puede ser una herramienta valiosa, pero existe una diferencia enorme entre ver el movimiento y trasladarse hacia él.

La verdadera evolución comienza cuando somos capaces de salir de nuestro propio espacio, abandonar por un momento nuestros puntos de referencia y permitirnos aprender de otras formas de moverse, de otras variantes y de otras perspectivas.

Una traslación auténtica no tiene puntos fijos. El cuerpo cambia, el espacio cambia, la situación cambia… y nosotros debemos ser capaces de acompañar ese cambio sin perder el centro ni el camino.

Por eso, la fuerza del entrenamiento no nace solamente de la repetición. Nace también de un corazón juguetón, curioso y con auténticas ansias de aprender. Un corazón capaz de trasladarse libremente, cambiar sus puntos de vista y descubrir algo nuevo sin necesidad de abandonar aquello que verdaderamente importa.

Existe un antiguo proverbio japonés:

「井の中の蛙、大海を知らず」
I no naka no kawazu, taikai o shirazu.

"La rana en el fondo del pozo no conoce el gran océano."

La imagen es sencilla, pero profunda.

La rana puede creer que conoce el mundo porque conoce perfectamente su pequeño espacio. Pero mientras permanezca allí, jamás podrá comprender la inmensidad del océano.

Y aquí aparece una hermosa coincidencia del idioma japonés.

蛙 — kaeru, la rana, se pronuncia igual que 帰る — kaeru, regresar.

Quizás haya también una enseñanza en ello:

Para poder regresar, primero debemos atrevernos a salir.

Salir de nuestro dojo.
Salir de nuestras costumbres.
Salir de nuestras certezas.
Salir de nuestra manera habitual de mirar.

Viajar, entrenar con otros maestros, compartir con otros practicantes, experimentar otras variantes y descubrir otros espacios no significa abandonar nuestro camino.

Al contrario.

A veces necesitamos alejarnos un poco para poder regresar con una mirada nueva.

Porque quien nunca se traslada puede terminar confundiendo su pequeño charco con el océano.

Y en el Budō, como en la vida, quizás una de las mayores virtudes sea precisamente esa:

"moverse sin perder el camino, cambiar sin perder la esencia y regresar siempre con algo nuevo para aprender"

As humans we like to have favourites. We have our comfort zones and avoid stepping out of them where possible. However, ...
02/09/2026

As humans we like to have favourites. We have our comfort zones and avoid stepping out of them where possible.

However, as martial artists and ninja (person who perseveres) we must get used to being outside of our comfort zones. We need to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

This is achieved through training in a safe and secure environment where we can test the waters and push ourselves further.

In traditional Japanese martial arts there is the concept of "Gambatte". Roughly translated it means to keep going, to n...
26/08/2026

In traditional Japanese martial arts there is the concept of "Gambatte". Roughly translated it means to keep going, to not stop.

People often wonder how to get good at martial arts, they want to know what the secret is. Simply there is no secret. To get good, you need to start then not stop.

Training will change and adapt as life changes us, but we must never stop.

So why not come along to the dōjō and learn the martial arts from a lineage passed down from the Ninja and Samurai of Japan? Come and learn to be the best you you can be through constant progression.

It is said that in life the only constant is change. If we pridefully hold firm to a set idea we will be beaten by the c...
19/08/2026

It is said that in life the only constant is change. If we pridefully hold firm to a set idea we will be beaten by the change and broken.

To be able to perform true budō, we need to accept that change happens then flow with it.

We train in kata (set techniques) to learn from the experiences of those who walked this path before us. But this is merely the first step along the learning process - Shu (Protect/Obey) Ha (Break/Detach) Ri (Transcend/Leave). Meaning to forget the kata we must know them inside and out.

Come along to the dōjō and start on your own budō journey.

The end point of studying and practicing the martial arts is control. Control of ourselves and control of others.Each ar...
12/08/2026

The end point of studying and practicing the martial arts is control. Control of ourselves and control of others.

Each art approaches this differently, but there are only so many ways to juice a lemon. The skills of the nine schools of the Bujinkan can often be seen to compliment each other.

But the only way to get good at any of these skills is to practice and train with those who have gone before and learnt correctly.

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Barton Hill Road
Torquay
TQ2 8JA

Opening Hours

8pm - 10pm

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