The End of an Era

Life has a funny way of changing your priorities.  The last year was an exciting one but one that has seen my occupied with other facets of life.  After a number of years training intensely with Jissen Dojos and at various seminars, including those reviewed on this blog and a couple of excellent seminars that I didn't get around to reviewing (Eddie Wazen and Robin Doenicke), I am at a cross roads once again.  I've been through this before, when I stopped teaching Qigong and Daoist Internal Alchemy and shut down the Beiji Healing Arts website.  At that time I felt the need to shift focus as I do again now.  So this is the end of this blog, for now at least.  I intent to continue pursuing my own interests and personal path, which at the moment is leading me to want to explore the historical aspects of Ninjutsu.  I remain a proud Bujinkan and baguazhang practitioner, and have enjoyed all of my training, but with fatherhood and career restricting my ability to get to a dojo, I will move to more private training and study.  I have started the Brisbane Historical Ninjutsu Research Society and intend to concentrate on studying those texts of Ninjutsu that predate the Japanese and Western Ninja Booms.  I also intent to look at some texts from the 19th and early 20th Centuries which are not yet translated from Japanese, but which may lead to additional insight into this art.  To all those who have supported me and trained with me up to this point, thank you for all you have done.  Sometimes the most interesting views are found on the path less traveled.

Bryn

PS I'd like to leave you some parting gifts.  The first is this interview with Eddie Wazen From Penthouse Magazine (yeah, yeah I know what you're thinking, just read it).  The Second is the interview with Robin Doenicke from Blitz Magazine conducted by Paul Johnstone, my instructor from Jissen Dojos International.