Ninja Camp

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Are you bored of going every summer on vacation by the sea? To plan where, when and with whom? For you to spend a lot of money, and Your memories still fade away quickly?

Spend this summer with us in our ninja camp. We guarantee you that you will never forget it. Situated in an ideal clean and ecological environment, 25 kilometers from the nearest town, in the valley of the mountain Lipac, 150 meters from the river of Kriva Reka.

In our camp:
– we sleep in the dojo or in the small ninja wooden house and two tents are available for the lovers of the open sky
– two trainings a day are held + exploratory expeditions, ninja actions at night and samurai battles
– healthy food is consumed, three home cooked meals every day, prepared in a traditional way, from domestic and local products
– there are also two light snacks each day, from fruits and vegetables freshly picked directly from the garden
– a camp fire is lit, with guitar music and songs, showers are taken under the bright sky, there is swimming in the river, stargazing in the night
– the latrines are outside, there are jokes and acting.

Is it enough? Do we have your attention? See why Bujinkan Macedonia is a leader for camp seminars and survival trainings in nature. Would you like to take someone with you? Someone who just wants to rest and not train? No problem. Any guest participant during the camp can enjoy the wonderful food, nature hikes, and to rest in the shade of great walnut trees in the backyard. For the participants from abroad, we organize a welcome at the airport and free transfer to the camp.

Nine days – eight nights for just 250 euro* (all inclusive) * (transportation from Skopje and back + accommodation in the Dojo + food + training + unforgettable company)
** If you want more intimacy, you can sleep in one of our wooden houses in the Japanese Zen garden. Renting a cottage during the camp for all nine days: 400 euros per person (all expenses included). A maximum of two people can sleep in one house.

Have you had a cheaper and more exciting vacation? We don’t believe You!
– departure from Skopje on 04.08.2025 at 09.00 o’clock (arrival at 10.00)
– leaving for Skopje on 12.08.2025 at 18.00 o’clock (arrival at 19.00)

Limited space, so we follow the principle: First come, first served or „the early bird catches the worm“. Apply on time or you will have to go and roast on some sunny sea beach.

Summer 2025 – Train like a man! Only our dojo is open even in August.

Topic for 2025: Bugei Juhappan (Eighteen Kinds Of Martial Arts)

e-mail: daito_macedonia@yahoo.com
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Here is a summary of the topics that were taught during the seminar over the years:
2009 – Koto ryu Koppojutsu / Kenjutsu Kihon DaiSho
2010 – Shinden Fudo ryu Dakentaijutsu / Ono ha Itto ryu Kenjutsu (Takeda den)
2011 – Gyokko ryu Koshijutsu / Togakure ryu Bikenjutsu
2012 – Togakure ryu Ninpo Taijutsu / Togakure ryu Shurikenjutsu
2013 – Kukishinden ryu Dakentaijutsu/ Kukishinden ryu Biken no Ho
2014 – Asayama Ichiden ryu Taijutsu / Koto ryu Ken
2015 – Shinden Fudo ryu Jutaijutsu I / Kukamishin ryu Bojutsu
2016 – Takagi Yoshin ryu Jutaijutsu I / Katori Shinto ryu Kenjutsu
2017 – Takagi Yoshin ryu Jutaijutsu II / Togakure ryu Ninja Biken
2018 – Daito ryu Aikijujutsu / Kukishinden ryu Naginata
2019 – Gyokko ryu Koshijutsu / Kusari fundo
2020 – Takagi Yoshin ryu Jutaijutsu III / Kukishinden ryu Bojutsu
2021 – Shiden Fudo ryu Jutaijutsu II / Kusari Gama
2022 – Kukishin ryu Dakentaijutsu / Kukishin ryu Bojutsu
2023 – Shinden Fudo ryu Dakentaijutsu / Kukishin ryu Jojutsu
2024 – Togakure ryu Ninpo Taijutsu / Togakure ryu Toami and Fukiya
1025 – Bugei Juhappan

Koryu Camp

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After six years in a row we persistently build the image of our “Summer Ninja Camp”, in 2015 we decided for the first time to also organize an international Summer Koryu Camp with an instructor from abroad.

For that purpose, we invited our friend from Russia, Sergey Babkin, representative and master of the art of Kukamishin ryu Hyoho, during the camp to teach together with the instructor Igor Dovezenski.

At the end of the event, the students of Bujinkan Macedonia grew assured that the quality training in our dojo enables them to quickly adjust to the training in other martial arts that come from the Land of the Rising Sun. After the end of the camp, the majority of members openly stated that the participation of an instructor from the side was to them a great experience, but that they would rather have the old format of Camp where they study the schools of Toshitsugu Takamatsu exclusively from their Teacher. They made a point that they will support the organization of another international Koryu Camp with a quality instructor from abroad, but not every year, better once every few years.

Because the summer camp is organized exclusively for the students of the Organization „Taiyou e no Michi“, the instructor Dovezenski accepted their suggestion, and so in this very moment already a strategy and a plan are being formulated for the organization of the next Summer Koryu Camp.


Topic of the Koryu Summer Camp 2015 was: Shinden Fudo ryu Jutaijutsu / Kukamishin ryu Hyoho

International

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The membership and participation in the most respected organizations for classical Japanese martial arts, allows us to organize international seminars with the best and most respected koryu masters.

Several times so far we’ve been hosts to Svenerik Bogsater (Bujinkan), Antonino Cherta (European Daito Organization), Erik Louw (Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto ryu), Mario De Mol (Jinenkan), as well as many other known experts for koryu and budo.

In the past, we’ve organized up to three international seminars during the year, but in the last years their number decreased to twice a year.

Our dedication to the martial arts promise many more international events in our country. You can follow the announcements for the seminars —> here

Feats

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Survival in Nature®
 
Shidoshi Igor Dovezenski often said that anyone can practice martial arts anywhere. He said that the safety the atmosphere in the dojo offers doesn’t make one call himself a warrior. And most importantly, Dovezenski always claimed that ninjutsu can be trained only with a close contact with nature and with testing the endurance.

In 2007, Igor Dovezenski for the first time organized a seminar titled „Survival in Nature“, where the members of Bujinkan Macedonia could test the limits of their will power and endurance. As the years passed, the standards and the challenges were greater, but that made the event to gain almost cult like status amongst the members of the dojo. On the last two-three seminars, only a small group remained consistent and fearlessly entered this dangerous adventure. Because of that, shidoshi Dovezenski in 2013 decided, seven years after the first seminar, to organize the last „Survival in Nature“.

To understand what event this is, it is enough to read the announcement for the seminars that were put on three weeks before:

For the brave, for the dignified.

Two hellish days, far from civilization, without food and only liter and a half water, without additional clothing and hygienic means. Two days training, meditation and bare survival.

Location: S’mkneno (26 km. to the nearest town and hospital / desert-like conditions)

Date: last weekend of July

Application until 18th of July, with purpose to avoid the calculation of the weather conditions.

Start: 07.00 hours (Saturday)

Return: 16.00 hours (as long as you survive, otherwise Your equipment will be shared among us)

Read carefully and think!!!

Macedonia is known for the hellish summer temperatures caused by the so called „African waves“. It is hottest in the last days of July, when the temperature rises above 45 Celsius, and the UV index is on its maximum.

Before the seminar, every participant on his own should make appropriate medical examinations and to get an oral or written confirmation from the doctor that he is psycho-physical healthy and completely ready for a two-day extreme effort (under the hot summer sun), without food and water, followed by a hard training and a three hours of sleep.

Allowed equipment: sleeping bag, ground cover, army uniform (pants and a shirt), one t-shirt, hat, one pair of underwear (loose), one pair of socks, rope, knife and a bottle of a liter and a half (empty).

Important: the seminar is meant only for tough guys and girls. The training conditions will be extremely hard with an iron discipline. Those who do not feel psycho-physically ready to „enter the hell“ and who are not ready to kill their own ego, we ask them not to apply to this seminar. Bear in mind that the temperature might rise above 45 degrees Celsius. Sitting is forbidden during the seminar (on the two days) and supporting on all four limbs at the same time. Only three hours of sleep, the rest of the time – training.

Whining, excuses and crying are forbidden during the seminar.

Clarification: Allowed quantity of water for drinking during the two days: 1.5 liters.

Several times until now we’ve heard „when a liter and a half of water is allowed, it’s not that bad“. We ought to clarify to You, that quantity of water, during the hot sun is lost in the first few hours of the training. The fluids in Your body evaporate through sweating, breathing and talking. You during those two days will constantly have activities that cause you to sweat, and at the same time you mustn’t sit even for a moment and rest. There will be no shadows, no additional quantities of water. Think well!!!

We see each other soon in the „hole“.

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The Path of Shugenja®

This feat was also instituted by Igor Dovezenski in 2007, so that the warriors of Bujinkan Macedonia could test their will power and endurance. This spiritual journey, as it was called by the founder, traditionally was held at the last week of the month September. After seven years of the first march, shidoshi Dovezenski decided that it is time this event to go in the „history“ and to join the other feats that Bujinkan Macedonia is famous for.

What exactly this is about, you can see from the announcement that was put on three weeks before the seminar:

The warriors from the dojo for traditional Japanese martial arts Bujinkan Macedonia this year again will depart on the spiritual journey called „The Path of Shugenja“.

Twenty days before this event, instructor Dovezenski lays out a geographic map of Macedonia on the ground, and then with tied eyes points to a specific place. Then with a ruler a direction is drawn from the start to the finish point. Afterwards the participants on the seminar follow that route, regardless of the terrain conditions. On average, the route that is walked is 60 kilometers, and the record was set in 2009, when the members of Bujinkan Macedonia walked 80 kilometers in 15 hours and 40 minutes.

Shugendo is an ancient Japanese method that researches the relation between the man and nature. Shugendo means a „Path through training and testing“, in other words it’s an ascetic discipline that has the purpose to achieve self-improvement through retreat in a mountain, meditation under waterfalls and cold rivers, breathing exercises on unreachable terrain, everything to achieve incredible feats through testing the physical and mental endurance. Those who practice this method are known under the name of Shugenja, and the teaching is practiced in Japan to this day.

As the founder of the teaching is considered En no Gyoja, who lived near Kyoto in the 7th century a.d. The other name that these followers are known for, is Yamabushi or Mountain Warriors. They cruised the mountains visiting and protecting the many shrines. Some scholars believe that exactly these people, joined with the deserted Chinese generals after the fall of the dynasty Tang, are considered to be the founders of the art Ninjutsu.

Subject: The Path of Shugenja / Spiritual Journey

Date: the last week of September

Location: Lipac – Kokino (for 2009, although every year we choose difference route)

Program: 

07.00 hours – departure from Skopje
08.00 hours – arrival and start of the march
Return – only God knows!

Equipment: Take whatever you want. Everything is on Your responsibility and conscience.

P.S. Encounter with wild animals, rain, storm and other unforeseen things are not excluded. Everyone comes at his own risk. Before you apply, check the information on the website from the previous years.

Outdoor

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The seminars in nature are trademark of the Dojo for classical Japanese martial arts Bujinkan Macedonia and the Organization Taiyou e no Michi. No one can claim that has more experience than us, for the fact that so far we’ve had organized more than 300 events of this type.

The outdoor seminars are a great opportunity for the students to enrich and test their knowledge, as well as to increase their psycho-physical condition. Among other things, they allow the students an interaction with the five natural elements (godai), as well as reaching harmony with nature.

The benefits we get from nature should be mentioned, such as: clean air, natural humidity and sunshine. The open space, far from the city surroundings, allows sharpening of the senses, improving the health condition, purification of the body from the toxins…

With participation in an outdoor seminar, at least one day you will forget the free radicals, positive ions and negative emissions, caused by the urban everyday life and electronic devices.

(To follow the outdoor seminar announcements, visit our website frequently: http://www.bujinkan.org.mk/index.php?lang=eng)

Intensive

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The Intensive seminars are held every weekend in the Hombu Dojo of Taiyou e no Michi. They are meant for the serious koryu practitioners because they offer deep research of the kata and intensive training for the tiniest details of the arts. In case you want to learn all the essential values of one ryu-ha, the intensive training are the best way to achieve that.

During two days it is practiced for 10 hours, on a subject given ahead. The training is most often about some of the Japanese martial arts that are taught in our organization (taijutsu) or some traditional Japanese weapon (bukijutsu). For all participants a free accommodation is provided in the dojo.

Timetable during the Intensive Seminars:

Saturday:

– first training; 10.30 – 12.30
– second training: 14.30 – 15.30
– third training: 18.30 – 20.30

Sunday:

– first training; 09.30 – 11.30
– second training: 11.30 – 12.30
– third training: 15.30 – 17.30

The members of Taiyou e no Michi receive the list of subjects for the Intensive Seminars ahead of time every month. If you are not a member of our organization, and you want to participate on these seminars, send a request by our official e-mail: daito_macedonia@yahoo.com.