Jindokai (norsk og engelsk)

Jindokai sitt emblem

 

Jindokai sitt emblem er en stilisert Fønix. Navnet består av tre stavelser som i denne sammenheng har følgende betydning:

Jin – «å gjøre gode handlinger»
Do – «veien»
Kai – «samfunn/organisasjon/klubb»

På engelsk kan det oversettes til “Society of the Way of Benevolence”. Jindokai sitt motto er «If you hit hard, repair the damage twice over. If you do good in the first place, you won’t have to hit hard.

Stilartene/kampkunstene som er representert under Jindokai er:

• Shorin Ryu (karatestilart fra Okinawa og vår stilart)
• Goju Ryu (karatestilart fra Okinawa)
• Shotokan (karatestilart fra Japan)
• Goshin Jutsu (en moderne kampkunst basert på Japansk jujutsu som inneholder forsvar mot både bevæpnet og ubevæpnet angriper)
• Aiki-Jutsu (en gammel japansk kampkunst som blant annet har gitt opphav til moderne japansk Jujutsu og Aikido)
• Iaido (sverdkunst)
• Kobudo (bruk av redskap/våpen i karate hvorav de åtte mest vanlige er (Bo, Sai, Tonfa, Nunchaku, Kama, Tekko, Timbe og Rochin, Surujin)

Jindokai ledes av Hanshi Stephen Chan, 10. Dan. Se www.stephen-chan.com.

Jindokai – International Martial Arts Association

Hanshi Stephen Chan

Stephen Chan began his martial arts training in his family’s adopted homeland, New Zealand. A martial tradition ran through the family, reaching back to the high Tang dynasty. His grandmother was a trained swordswoman who participated in the bloody warlord and brigands era of early 20^th century China. Stephen’s first formal teacher was Karl Sargent, the winner of several championships in the Pacific and Asia. He became Karl’s deputy instructor at his headquarters dojo. Assistant instructors included the legendary John Dickson, who had fought with Chairman Mao in the struggle for China. Stephen’s flowing dark hair and John’s flowing white hair were features at outdoor training sessions in the Waitakere rain forest mountains.

Stephen moved to London in the 1970s, he stayed till 1980 when he left for Africa, and returned in the late 1980s. He trained or taught at the legendary dojos in Marshall Street, the Cut, the Budokwai, the Tokei, Earlham Street, Philbeach Gardens and Judd Street. From 1980, Stephen lived and travelled throughout Africa for several years and established a huge public service project of teaching karate to all, including young people from impoverished areas. This project continues today.

Stephen has trained eight times in Okinawa and other parts of East Asia (Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung and Tainan in Taiwan) and been awarded senior grades and titles by Shian Toma, Seiki Toma, and Roy Hobbs. He trained also with Kozo Mita in Tokyo, Seikichi Odo in Okinawa, Boulahfa Mimoun and Kinei Nakasone in Salamanca, Spain, and many other masters around the world. With Wayne Otto as player/coach, he instructed the University of Kent karate club which became the UK’s most successful university club for 9 consecutive years. He helped Roy Hobbs establish the Worldwide Dentokan and worked with him for 30 years.

In 2012, Stephen established his own Jindokai organisation with dojos and 1000 students in several countries. ‘Jin’ is a Confucian value to do with ‘benevolence’, and expresses Stephen’s commitment to the martial arts as a form of outreach and sharing. ‘Jin’ is a Confucian equivalent of Aristotle’s idea of happiness being the performance of public good. In both traditions, the educated person has an obligation to be benevolent. Through ‘Jin’, Stephen seeks to combine the impulses of both his academic and martial lives. The Jindokai is a consultative organisation in which all instructors have a voice without pompous hierarchies. Stephen has fought all his life in many countries for transparent constitutional rule. He seeks that also in his martial life.

JINDOKAI Protocol
The Jindokai is an inclusive and consultative organisation which values creativity within its core characteristics.

1. The emblem of the Jindokai is a stylised phoenix, symbolising both rebirth and benevolence. Provided the stylisation of the phoenix is observed, member dojos, member associations, or member countries may apply their own colour schemes, lettering, or frames. In this way the emblem will exemplify diversity within unity.
2. Dan grading certificates will be prepared and use traditional Japanese border design of twin phoenixes in gold. An Association Mon, or stamp, will be cut in Taiwan, expressing the Jindokai name artistically, and all dojo heads are encouraged to have their own stamps cut.
3. The Jindokai encourages training and association with other groups, and with styles not taught as core arts within the Jindokai. It recognises grades attained in other styles or awarded by other bona fide organisations. It does not impose restrictions on membership within other styles and associations, but does expect dojo heads to regard Jindokai as their primary affiliation.
4. The Jindokai seeks links with respected persons and organisations in Okinawa, Japan, and other parts of East Asia, and also seeks recognition within the World Karate Federation (WKF) framework.
5. The aims of the Jindokai may be expressed simply: to propagate both traditional Okinawan and Japanese martial arts and their modern competitive expressions; to recognise and propagate the arts for community benefit and within the spirit of benevolence.
6. The core arts to be taught within the Jindokai are Karate and Kobudo, Aiki Jutsu and Goshin Jutsu, Iaido and Iai Jutsu. Each of these arts may offer traditional grades to demarcate progress and status, as well as the honorific titles of Shihan, Kyoshi, and Hanshi. Grades will be awarded by properly constituted panels (at least three members of the style concerned, two being at least the grade being attempted, and a Chair with a higher grade than that being attempted), and titles by election within an electoral college of all Godans and above internationally. Aiki and Iai details will follow. The various Karate and Kobudo divisions, in outline, are as follows:

SHORIN RYU
The core karate style of Jindokai is Shorin Ryu. Its antecedent form is as Shorin Ryu was practised in the Seidokan dojo of Shian Toma in Okinawa. Just as Shian Toma and his deputies have themselves, over the years, developed variations in practice, the Jindokai recognises that the style is not static. It therefore accepts variation but does so within a core rendition of the traditional kata, which may be said to emanate from kata practice within Toma-dojo in the mid to late-1980s. Promotion within Shorin Ryu is possible to 9 dan.

GOJU RYU
Goju Ryu is a subsidiary style taught within the Jindokai. It may be practised according to four recognised templates – Miyazato, Toguchi, Shito Naha, and (up to 2012) WKF Goju. However, practitioners should not mix kata from these templates, i.e. the kata have to belong consistently to one of these templates as taught by a recognised Goju school of longstanding. However, the hombu style of Goju will be derived from the Miyazato template as expressed by the Jundokan of Okinawa. Promotion within Goju Ryu is possible to 4 dan.

SHOTOKAN
Shotokan is a subsidiary style taught within the Jindokai for both traditional and competition purposes. Accordingly, its kata performance criteria are drawn from any bona fide descendant group of the JKA for traditional practice and the JKF for competition practice. Promotion within Shotokan is possible to 4 dan.

KOBUDO
The weapons taught within Jindokai are reflective of Okinawan practice as found in Toma-dojo in the 1980s, and in the dojo of Seikichi Odo in the 1990s and early 2000s. The major weapons are taught, with at least two kata per weapon being available for tuition. Further kata may be taught utilising bo, as a weapon with universal characteristics and historical utility. Competence with weapons forms part of the Shorin Ryu syllabus and grading requirements. Otherwise, Kobudo is an elective. However, the Jindokai will not offer specialised Kobudo gradings.