Location & Schedule

The Sho-In Dojo is located in Crystal Lake, IL near the intersection of Randall & Alexandra roads

Sunday: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Friday: 7:00 - 8:30pm

Instructors

What Kind of Skills are Taught?

This training is for real world situations that apply to the average American. Fight scenarios are explored, and effective techniques are taught to allow you to get through those scenarios alive.

Examples of skills include:

• strikes, kicks, joint locks, throws, chokes, and pins
• weapon usage and disarms (knife / staff / sword / rope / handguns)
• rolling, falling, and basic acrobatic tumbling skills
• defense from multiple assailants
• working with teammates to neutralize opponents

How is Taijutsu unique?

Budo Taijutsu holds survival and effectiveness as the first priority. At the very least, you must be able to get out of an altercation alive! All else is secondary.

In a dynamic self-defense situation, you'll often be smaller, weaker, and slower than your opponent. Thus, instead of strength and speed, we stress positioning, timing, rhythm of the fight, balance, and psychology. You will ALWAYS have some control of these things. Regardless of who is stronger and faster, whoever is able to better utilize these elements will win.

Our training includes examining various scenarios - for example, fending off attacks while carrying a backpack, while holding a baby, or while seated in a chair.  In addition to traditional martial arts weapons (such as swords, staffs, and knives), our training also considers the use of improvised weapons such as pens, cell phones, wallet chains, clothing and other such impromptu tools.