Hi
There’s a dojo in England which teaches the 9 schools of Bujinkan, would any of you lovely people be able to provide an insight as to what this would actually mean in practice?
The history section is quite interesting, well to me anyway.
Thanks!
Are you interested in learning this system ?
There has been some decent discussion of the Bujinkan in this subforum, covering some of the issues with the history of the schools and whether evidence exists for them beyond the Bujinkan.
The question becomes, what is it you are interested in knowing?
Well it seems to be that anything to do with Bujinkan / Ninja / Samurai , etc is dismissed out of hand.
I’m not looking to start it as I do other MA’s, but it would interest me to know more about what its like. Is each of the “9 schools” a seperate art form in its own right or is it thats just where Bujinkan comes together and forms 1 seperate art form?
I suppose the questions is, what kind of things do they teach, for example, I know what Karate, Muay Thai, Judo, TKD, Hapkido, etc teaches, but Bujinkan? I have no idea!
Then go watch a class or two?
Less in this sub-forum then elsewhere on the site, but there is still a pretty strong if often better informed critque here as well.
In the Bujinkan you learn Bujinkan Taijutsu. You are not learning the individual ryu. The same goes for your rank it will be in Bujinkan Taijutsu and not the individual schools.
As I understand it Hatusmi sensei uses the waza from each school and the schols themselves to convey different aspects of his art.
It is a gendai art and is one of his creating but it is based on older schools some of which are recognised as being legitimate schools of Bujutsu and others which have certain questions hanging over them from some people. Really for the schools that some see as questionable there’s not really a good answer that can be found on the net.
Training should cover stuff similar to jujutsu with a range of weapons covered from day one.
The quality of training will depend on the dojo you go to and there are many out there that suck! There are also those that are very good you just have to find them.
I would go and watch a class but can’t make it that day of the week unfortunately.
Thanks for the rest of the replies though 
There’s a plethora of information about what you’ve enquired about on the net, some of it accurate, and some of it just plain old bullshit. The only real way of knowing ultimately requires you to study, either physically or though academic research.
–Dave
Wait.
There is a class at a dojo you do not attend you are curious about, so you come here to people who have no direct affiliation with that dojo to ask what said class (which you can’t attend even if you wanted to due to your scheduling) would look like?
/facepalm
Asking about something on the internet is less scary then gasp going out and meeting these people in person and getting an informed decision.
I come here to ask for opinions on a martial art that I would assume people who have studied martial arts for longer than I may know something about.
I could attend the class if I so wanted, however I would have to miss one of my training nights to do so, or, travelling 30 miles to their other class a night that I am free.
Ok.
You sir, are an idiot.
at least I can use the search function or google to find an answer to a question asked thousands of times on bullshido and other web sites
They teach LARPing and fantasy play