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Bujinkan Dojo Argentina The home page of our good friend Willy Iglesia. Scroll down on the main page to see some of the videos of their training.

Yotsume Dojo/Billy Ristuccia Our good friend in the Phoenix area, Billy has generously helped us over the years.

Bujinkan Dojo Website Hombu Dojo website. This has the guidelines for participation in the Bujinkan Dojo. These guidelines are non-negotiable parts of our training, so be sure and look them over if you are interested in training with us.

Warrior Information Network An excellent clearing house for information about the Bujinkan Dojo

Jock Hoban's Living Values A close look at some of the core values in what we do.

Our training facilitates the "field testing" of our training tools. With help from some excellent teachers, we have been studying Kukishin Ryu Rokushakubojutsu and Jojutsu for several years, and this training has allowed us to see what kinds of tools work and which don't. It is not an exaggeration to say that we have been pretty rough on equipment. We will list the links to websites that have provided solid weapons for us:
BUGEI Company Their large hickory bokken is an excellent weapon for work with the Kukishin Ryu Rokushakubojutsu and Jojutsu forms. The weapon has a good size vertical cross-section, and is quite long overall; the absence of an indent for the tsuba allows the implementation of a long tsuka. Also, they sell excellent six foot staffs made of both white oak and ipe wood.
BUJIN DESIGN Company They make an excellent "Yagyu Shinkage style" fukuro shinai. Their product is far superior to those of vendors who simply take a kendo shinai and cover it. If you look at their replacement shaft you'll see that they make their shinai just like it is done in Japan for the Yagyu Shinkage Ryu. We have talked to friends in Japan and they have confirmed that this product is very similar to those in Japan.
Kingfisher Woodworks Their Appalachian hickory is indigenous to the central Appalachian Mountains, and is air dried from small family owned mills. Its grain is very straight. This wood dents only slightly even under heavy impact, and does not result in splinters or raised grain; this will allow tempering over time. They make quality weapons at an excellent price. I have looked at other vendors that sell hickory weapons; Kingfisher's prices are good. In addition to this, their customer support and service are excellent.
We have two of their bokkens, and they have proven to be excellent training tools. We chose two styles for their thick cross-section and weight. Also, we have purhased four jo's from them, and they have held up excellently under the rather stressful contact in the jo forms of Kukishin Ryu. This past summer and fall, during our work with the Kukishin Ryu rokushaku bo and jo, we have had problems with weapons from other vendors holding up, including three catastrophic failures. The Kingfisher Woodworks training tools have endured everything with no splinters, cracks, or failures.
Ed Martin's Pennsylvania Bujinkan has provided us with some white oak staffs that have proven to be solid training tools. The price is excellent, and they have endured the extremely rough training we do as we study the staff arts of Kukishin Ryu. These staffs will dent only under heavy impact, but these impacts have not raised any of the grain of the wood, nor have they splintered or cracked. Also, we recently purchased some of the hickory staffs that Ed provides. They are solid staffs, heavier than the oak staffs, made of what appears to be Appalachian hickory, as the grain is perfectly straight and the wood is very dense with some bird pecking; all of which are features of this type of hickory.