PATH 2 · INTERNATIONAL BUJINKAN DOJO ASSOCIATION
Advanced Levels and Instructor Training
Offering Bujinkan teachings worldwide since 1986.
University-level training in Bujinkan Ninjutsu. Go ALL IN and become a teacher of the “Enlightened Warrior Ways!”
THE IBDA ROADMAP
Beginner to Master: Strategic, Systematized Bujinkan Training
✓ Complete strategically mapped-out system: at least 25 years of study in the portal, with more added weekly!
✓ Worldwide International Bujinkan Dojo training: dojos and students
✓ Distance learning programs: step-by-step videos and detailed picture binder manuals, plus all ONLINE!
✓ Learn Ninpo Taijutsu, Ninjutsu and Budo Taijutsu well enough to teach it
✓ Japan-authorized affiliation with Soke Hatsumi since 1985
✓ Strategic systematized learning system to 10th Dan (5 levels)
✓ Teacher CERTIFICATION training: become certified to teach, open a dojo, rank students and share the arts
✓ TRAIN, TEST, RANK: most of our courses include all rank testing and certification. No extra fees!
Get the complete SHIDOSHI “BUJINKAN MASTERS COURSE” training, or start with the Blackbelt Shodan Course and add the next level when you are ready.
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Become a Teacher of the Enlightened Warrior Ways
ACCELERATED PATH
BLACKBELT TEACHER CERTIFICATION COURSE
The accelerated path to becoming a certified IBDA Bujinkan BLACKBELT AND TEACHER of the Empowered Warrior Ways!
You get TWO courses. Study them both at the same time to become a fully licensed teacher the day you earn your Shodan! Your rank certifications are included. Just train and test!
WHAT YOU GET:
✓ SHODAN COURSE: complete online study, plus the 316-page manual in a binder (no disks) mailed to you
✓ TEACHERS TRAINING COURSE: complete online study, plus the manual binder (no disks) mailed to you
✓ NINJA WAY COURSE: online study course
✓ PATCHES: uniform IBDA Kyu chest patch and shoulder patch
✓ IBDA MEMBERSHIP for 3 years
✓ ALL RANK CERTIFICATION FEES: all certifications from 9th Kyu to 1st Degree BlackBelt, the Teachers License and the first year of Shidoshi-kai
Full access now! Learn the arts well enough to teach them!
BY ITSELF
IBDA TEACHER TRAINING COURSE
We are looking for IBDA Ninjutsu instructors. Is that you? Are you ready?
Once you are at about 5th Kyu and have the Shodan training, get this course so you will be ready to be a teacher the same time you get your Blackbelt. Study this Ninjutsu Teacher Training Course to become a better martial arts teacher while learning:
✓ How to be a very skilled, confident teacher
✓ How to create interesting lesson plans: daily, weekly, monthly and yearly
✓ How to handle your students' challenges and keep them happy
✓ Your responsibilities as a teacher
✓ How to empower yourself to empower others
✓ How to become a good communicator and leader, think on your feet and make quick decisions
✓ The history of the Ten Chi Jin and the esoteric meanings of teaching the “Way”
✓ Plus much, much more!
View on computer or phone / tablet app. Comes with binder!
CHOOSE WITH OR WITHOUT DVDS
GO ALL IN
BUJINKAN NINJUTSU SHIDOSHI MASTERS COURSE
ALL the training to become a SHIDOSHI, Master Teacher of the Enlightened Warrior Ways. The world's most complete Bujinkan Ninjutsu–Budo Taijutsu study system and reference library for both teachers and students, designed to take you from brand-new beginner to Master Teacher level (5th Degree BlackBelt).
EIGHT (8) complete courses!
Ninja Way, Shodan, Nidan, Sandan, Yondan, Budo Taijutsu, Ninja Weapons, and Teachers Training. Includes: SIX BINDER MANUALS with 2,582 study pages of how-to pictures, mailed and as online PDFs; VIDEO LESSONS, well over 50 hours of strategic step-by-step progressive instruction (once on DVDs); 13 AUDIOS (once on CDs); 3 study books; 2 uniform patches; certificate; ranking opportunity (separate certification fees); LIFETIME NINJA DOJO ONLINE.
DAN LEVEL CERTIFICATION
Advance Through the Dan Ranks
Each course includes the online training and a mailed binder manual. Train, test, and rank with the IBDA.
GYOKKO RYU
NIDAN 2ND DEGREE IBDA CERTIFICATION COURSE
Gyokko Ryu training course: requirements for IBDA Nidan level certification. Learn the Gyokko Ryu waza step by step! Learn the Kukishinden Ryu Hanbo waza step by step!
The Gyokko Ryu school is at the core of the study of the Bujinkan teachings, as it builds much of the foundation of the art.
All the Gyokko Ryu waza in how-to pictures taken directly from the video lessons of the Jo Ryaku no Maki, Chu Ryaku no Maki and Ge Ryaku no Maki, and the Kukishinden Ryu Hanbojutsu Shoden / Chuden / Okuden levels.
FREE RARE BONUS: KUDEN (secret teachings of Gyokko Ryu). BAKU-IN, the Gyokko Ryu mudras (hand seals) and energy transmissions, revealed for the first time.
SHINDEN FUDO RYU
SANDAN 3RD DEGREE IBDA CERTIFICATION COURSE
Shinden Fudo Ryu training course: requirements for IBDA Sandan level certification. Step-by-step Shinden Fudo Ryu Dakentaijutsu waza, complete with pictures and video instruction for every waza.
Course manual ONLINE and a mailed BINDER with 356 pages covering all 84 Shinden Fudo Ryu Dakentaijutsu waza:
✓ Ten no Kata (24 Heaven Forms)
✓ Chi no Kata (24 Earth Forms)
✓ Shizen Shigoku no Maki (36 Ultimate Natural Forms)
✓ Plus 62 Kukishinden Ryu Rokushaku Bojutsu written waza of the Keiko Sabaki / Shoden / Chuden / Okuden levels
Everything you need except a training partner.
TAKAGI YOSHIN RYU
YONDAN 4TH DEGREE IBDA CERTIFICATION COURSE
Takagi Yoshin Ryu training course: requirements for IBDA Yondan level certification. Takagi Yoshin Jutaijutsu: 97 waza broken down into 3 levels:
✓ SHODEN LEVEL: Shoden no Kata, Ura Gata, Eri Shimegata
✓ CHUDEN LEVEL: Sabakigata, Tai no Gata
✓ OKUDEN LEVEL: Okuden no Kata, Daisho Sabaki Gata, Muto Dori and Moguri Gata
Kukishinden Ryu Sojutsu written waza (not on video yet): Yari Jutsu, Kodachi, Muto Dori.
Includes the special 14 Kuden waza NOT revealed in Soke Hatsumi's Unarmed Fighting Techniques of the Samurai book.
MASTER PRINCIPLES, WEAPONS and FOUNDATIONS
Deepen Your Training
All online. View on your computer or on our phone / tablet app!
MASTER PRINCIPLES
BUDO TAIJUTSU 5TH DAN COURSE
This Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu 5th Dan Course has 11 DVDs and a 236-page binder manual, ALL ONLINE!
“What are all the most important lessons of Budo Taijutsu ever taught to me by Soke Hatsumi over the last 25+ years?”
This course was created to help ALL Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu practitioners understand the dynamic relationships of the Bujinkan art. It has never been defined the way it is in this course. One reason is that the training draws from 9 different schools, and their concepts overlap in every class. Many students and instructors have become confused. This is an overview teaching of the most important lessons and concepts in learning the art.
✓ 236-page “Perfecting Your Budo Taijutsu” instruction course manual
✓ 11 DVDs: Shidoshi Richard Van Donk and 9 other instructors share their master concepts of Budo Taijutsu in demonstrations and drills to practice, each about 1 hour long
✓ 70-page Ten Chi Jin manual: Shidoshi Richard Van Donk's notes from 25 years of compiling and studying the Heaven, Earth and Man scrolls known as the Ten Chi Jin. A $70 bonus value (for real, check the price at the store)
ONLINE
NINJA WEAPONS SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION COURSE
Training from 10 DVDs, PLUS many additional training clips. Become an Advanced Weapons Specialist, with a certification opportunity.
Lessons on:
Sword · Hanbo · Tanto · Rokushaku Bo · Naginata · Jutte · Shuko · Kyoketsu Shoge · Yari · Kunai · Hand Gun
You will NOT find all this in-depth training on these weapons ANYWHERE else. The training is beyond fun and super educational.
ONLINE BUNDLE
NINJUTSU MADE EASY COURSE
Learn the power of postures, how to roll with ease, and the foundations of the Bujinkan system (Kihon Happo and San Shin no Kata) in easy lessons. Top that off with weapons postures and strikes of the Hanbo, Tanto, Kusari Fundo, Shuriken, Teppan, Rokushaku Bo, Naginata, Sword, Jutte, Shuko, Kyoketsu Shoge, Yari, Gun and Kunai. Taught with both the beginner and the advanced student in mind.
Six DVDs individually purchased: $240 plus shipping.
Limited-time sale price: $149 for all 6 titles, ALL ONLINE!
STUDY ANYWHERE! STUDY ANYTIME! 24/7 NINJA DOJO
Why Distance Learning?
While we offer dojo training, seminars, private video sessions, training and rank evaluation, even full personal mentoring with Doshi, everyone's budget and time is different. Distance online learning gives anyone, from literally anywhere, the opportunity to train with us.
Doshi Richard Van Donk pioneered Ninjutsu distance learning in 1986. The official Shodan Black Belt Course followed in 1991, and the training went online in 1995. People thought he was crazy back then. He was just ahead of his time. Today it is standard, and no one else has 25 years of study online like we do.
What We Offer
▸ PATH 1: Start with the BlackBelt (Shodan) Course or the Ninja Way intro training.
▸ PATH 2: Then add advanced courses or an Instructor Course. You could GO ALL IN and enroll in the Masters Course, a 25-year study in the Bujinkan Ninjutsu / Ninpo Taijutsu training curriculum. No one has yet finished it in less time.
▸ PATH 3: Specialty skills and weapons training. Add these short, in-depth trainings any time they excite you.
▸ PATH 4: After 40 years of offering distance learning, we highly suggest starting with the BlackBelt Course. And if you just want to check it out, get the super starter bundle: Ninja Way training for a very low entry price.
THE HATSUMI–VAN DONK MISSION
Be a Part of Our Legacy
We at IBDA have a proven history and have set the bar by establishing the standard for Bujinkan Ninjutsu training. It works, proven by the hundreds of BlackBelts and Masters who started with our training.
Doshi Van Donk continues to fulfill the mission he created with Soke Hatsumi nearly 40 years ago: to bring his arts out to the world. As part of that project with Hatsumi-Sensei and Quest Co., Doshi filmed, subtitled, produced and distributed ALL of Soke Hatsumi's Quest videos to the world.
Doshi has done his best to bring you the best education. Be a part of our legacy and help us keep the arts alive.
The International Bujinkan Dojo Association (IBDA)'s mission is to help you learn the arts well enough to teach them. Become a Shidoshi instructor of the “Empowered Warrior Ways.”
We have laid out your strategic roadmap to guide you on this enlightening and empowering path. Live the Ancient Arts as a Way of Life.
LEARN NINJUTSU, NINPO TAIJUTSU and BUDO TAIJUTSU
Directly from Doshi Richard Van Donk
And the International Bujinkan Dojo Association Master Council Certified Instructors.
Learn Bujinkan Ninjutsu (Art of the Ninja), Ninpo Taijutsu and Budo Taijutsu here. Over 40 years of research, study and development bring you the best strategic step-by-step 25-year study program. All online in the Ninja Dojo, or get physical Binder Courses, or study in an IBDA Dojo. Join our worldwide community. Study 24/7, anywhere, anytime!