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Gasshuku: Traditional Intensive Training There is a special kind of training event that typically lasts for a few days, the Japanese budo tradition of the gasshuku.
Gasshuku, meaning “lodging together”, immerses keen students in a lifestyle of coming together, and training for several hours each day. Quite often, it is remote places, some students may lodge together and depending on the facilities, gasshuku participants may even share the duties of meal preparation.
While workshops and seminars are geared towards the instruction of new material, gasshuku serve as an extension of regular class curriculum; the special difference being, however, that it is outside the common atmosphere and familiarity of the students’ home training hall. As much of the gasshuku is conducted out-of-doors, the diversity of training methods and activities is quite broad, and the senior organizers have the responsibility of arranging creative training exercises and activities to challenge the participants based on the surrounding environment of the gasshuku; for instance, performing kata shin-deep on the beach as the surf comes in.
What especially distinguishes this tradition of budo practice is the element of cohabitating with fellow students, socialization during meals and after training hours, and the bonds practitioners form throughout the experience. Gasshuku is not just a part of the student’s day, but a lifestyle gear-change, and important part of their mosaic of budo training.
Please consider joining us at Magic Island in Honolulu Hawaii on October 14th and 15th 2023 for the 2nd Uechi-ryu Hawaii Ohana Gasshuku.
This Gasshuku will coincide with a long anticipated visit of our beloved Grandmaster Henry Thom.
Intensive training, knowledge sharing, challenging seminars, beach potluck barbecues and sunset kanikapila (Hawaiian for musical jam sessions/sing-a-longs). Make your travel plans today!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Magic Island (Hawaii), ,Honolulu,HI,United States, Tripler Army Medical Ctr