tO-sHIN dO® cOURSES

 

Level 1 "Foundations of Self-Protection"

White Belt - Yellow Belt "Earth Realm" strength and confident command
Gain solid grounding in effective physical, intellectual, and emotional self protection - and an excursion into the potentials of empowering self development. Practice handling confrontation from start to finish, making decisions under pressure, recognizing specific attacks, and making effective choices.

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Level 2 "Advanced Self-Protection"

Build on success-generating principles of personal confidence, ability to recognize potential danger, and capability of responding effectively.

Blue Belt "Water Element" dynamics of power and knowledge
Explore the cool and scientific attitude of learning secrets for success and applying disciplined training to develop those secrets into new skills. Use strategic timing, distancing, and positioning to win, tactically shifting position to facilitate a better angle on winning.

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Red Belt "Fire Element" energy intensity and focus 
Explore explosive decisiveness as a key to accomplishment. Use commitment, confidence, leverage, and precise observation to win over adversity, so in-touch that you can blast right in and take apart the trouble before it can harm you.

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Level 3 "Path of the Protector"

Training evolves into Martial Arts as a "path of self-knowledge."

Green Belt "Wind element" evasive freedom of movement
Explore circular movement to evade an attacker's strength while capturing and directing momentum. "Moving like the wind" makes it hard for trouble to pin you down.

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Brown Belt "Void-potential" element creatively producing results
Explore spontaneous adaptation to produce the unexpected as a means for winning. Refine principles and techniques to the point of having just the right strategy, just the right tool, and just the right attitude for solving each specific problem that faces you.

 

Black Belt Club

Once you know that you just have to go all the way to Black Belt, you may join a special group of advancing students who already "feel like a Black Belt inside" while still wearing a colored belt outside.

Black Belt Club classes provide training in skills that will be expected as part of your Black Belt test - knife, stick, firearm defenses, and ground submission self-defense, along with specialty seminars.

 

 

 

 

 

Level 4 "Black Belt Mastery"

As a Black Belt, you go beyond kihon basic technique to enter realms of training a winning spirit for all of life's challenges. Beyond a solid grounding in self-protection and self-development explored on the way to earning First Degree Black Belt, are Level 4 exercises including:

• Using less effort to generate more speed and power

• Responding with grace and intelligence when confronted with brutality and ignorance

• Dealing with multiple attackers

• Defending against attackers skilled in other martial arts

• Lessons in classical combat tools like Japanese tachi sword and rokushakubo long staff

• Happo-biken "Eight Secrets of the Sword" - a code for winning in all types of challenges in life

• Protecting others

• Coaching others for increasing personal refinement and advancing skill

 

Shadows of Iga Society Classical Martial Arts

Train in the classical martial traditions of Japan. Explore historical scrolls of classical taijutsu unarmed combat, long weapons like Japanese sword, staff and spear, smaller tools like kusari-fundo weighted chain, shuriken throwing blades, and ninja energy channeling meditation.

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Blue Lotus Warrior Intention Mind Science Yoga

Depth training in the inner sciences of mind and spirit enhancement to better understand how conflict arises, ways for cultivating more useful attention under pressure, and techniques for building a more peaceful center when dealing with the inner and outer challenges of life.

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To-Shin Do Instructor Training

Advance your own training by means of sharing our art with others! The SKH Quest Instructor Development Program provides a series of courses that show how to advance systematically in ability to present lessons from the To-Shin Do curriculum effectively and consistently at all SKH Quest To-Shin Do Affiliate Schools.

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C.O.O.L. Kidz

The SKH Quest C.O.O.L. Kidz program promotes
C onfidence
O n-Target focus
O n-Purpose discipline
L eadership
...self-development specifically designed for children ages 5 - 10.

C.O.O.L. Kidz "learn how to learn." Our goal is group interaction skills, self-discipline, focus, and respect. C.O.O.L. Kidz work on body awareness, balance, and coordination drills. Recognizing trouble and getting away is another part of the C.O.O.L. Kidz program. And it's fun! We understand that younger students have shorter attention spans, so we use interesting and enjoyable methods to keep students' attention while teaching them skills they can use for life. We believe in lots of praise, encouragement, and positive reinforcement. Our young students are treated with respect, and are taught to return the same respect to others. We give our C.O.O.L. Kidz lots of experience in non-violent resolution to conflict, emphasizing heightened qualities of confidence, self-discipline, and control. We teach students the value of setting goals and working to meet them.

 

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