**This is a paid event. Registration is required. Please read carefully the event information and instructions.
Price: 25 Euro/class
Register here: Google Form
Website: www.katoriberlin.org
Address: Kinomichi Dojo, Belziger Str. 25, 10823 Berlin.
No previous experience required! The classes are in English and German.
About Katori Shinto-ryu:
- Katori Shintō-ryū is one of the oldest Japanese sword fighting traditions (koryū) still practised today and is recognized by the Japanese government as a cultural intangeable asset. The school was founded in the middle of the 15th century by Iizasa Chōisai Ienao at the Katori Shrine (Katori jingū) and has become the origin of numerous other martial arts schools over the course of its almost 600-year history.
- The training consists of the continuous repetition of fixed sequences of movements (kata) and includes the use of classic Japanese weapons such as the sword (iai-jutsu, battō-jutsu, ken-jutsu, ryōtō-jutsu, kodachi-jutsu), the long staff (bō-jutsu), the lance (naginata-jutsu) and the spear (sō-jutsu), as well as unarmed disciplines, tactics and spiritual aspects.
- Sebastian Graetz has been active in martial arts since 1997. After almost 15 years of taekwondo in Berlin, he started with Katori Shintō-ryū in Asia in 2014. Since then, he has studied in Japan with Ōtake Risuke-shihan and Ōtake Nobutoshi-shihan, and in Vietnam with Malte Stokhof-shihandai. In 2023, he received his Menkyo license and permission to set up a training group in Berlin the following year.
His aim is to transmit the tradition authentically.
If you've ever wanted to try your hand at the art of Japanese sword fighting, now's your chance! Join us for a trial lesson. Register here: https://signup.katoriberlin.org
