Southside Dojo

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Shobudo Bujitsu Jujitsu

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Phone – 269-329-9879

Email – ssdjujitsu@gmail.com

Head Instructor

Sensei Keith Nelson

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• Rokudan (6th degree), Shobudo Bujitsu Jujitsu

• Instructor certification, Shobudo Bujitsu Jujitsu

• Sandan(3rd degree), USJA Jujutsu

• Shodan(1st degree), Toyama-ryu Battodo

• Scolaire Saor, Cumann Bhata (Irish Stick Fighting)

I started Shobudo Bujitsu Jujitsu 30 years ago, in Lansing, Michigan, under Sensei Nathan Banks, and have taught classes in Colorado, Oregon and Michigan since 1998.  I have promoted several individuals to shodan and nidan ranks in that time, as well as helped organize and instruct the Shobudo Instructor’s Course.  I emphasize learning the basics of Shobudo in the same manner in which I learned them, by application of multiple techniques within a core principle or concept, thereby requiring exposure to a wide variety of related techniques, each of which reveal another facet of the core principle.

In addition to Shobudo, I have learned, taught at various times, and continue to train in various martial arts, including the Japanese sword styles of Toyama-ryu and Nakamura-ryu battodo through Katsumi Niikura sensei, medieval Italian fighting in the style of Fiore dei Liberi as interpreted and taught by Bob Charron, and Irish stickfighting through Ken Pfrenger’s  Cumann Bhata.   My other significant martial arts experience and training includes judo, tae kwon do, aikido, boxing, Danzan ryu jujitsu, Hungarian axe, and Maasai stick, spear, and sword use.

Assistant Instructors

Andy Gorham, sandan

Ricky Wells, nidan

John Beavers, nidan