If you’ll be joining us for class, you’ll need your hanbo (‘half-staff’) or jo (‘3/4 staff’), a bokken (‘wooden, etc. training sword), and training knife as we’ll be continuing our work with the short staff weapons both for promotion to Nidan (2nd degree Black Belt) and more advanced work for upper-level students.

If you’ll be joining us for class, you’ll need your hanbo (‘half-staff’) or jo (‘3/4 staff’), and a bokken (‘wooden, etc. training sword) as we’ll be focusing on one of the “tricky ninja tactics” that protects the weapon as well as you during an attack scenario.