In Shindenkan Denmark, we train the multi-track martial arts system Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do according to our motto: There is room for everyone - The elite as the exerciser. Shindenkan Denmark today consists of approx. 1,400 members in 17 member schools distributed throughout Zealand and Shindenkan Denmark have been registered as a special association under DGI Kampsport since 2009.

We are very proud of what we have achieved, our value set and level of competence in Shindenkan Denmark.

Because when you are a member of Shindenkan Denmark, you are part of a structured martial arts space where there is room for everyone who wants to train multi-track karate regardless of age and gender. A traditional multi-track world of martial arts based on 1000 years of history and experience - A world far from the competitive world that characterizes sports today.

In the spirit of Shindenkan

You meet Shindenkan's spirit when you enter Shindenkan's Dojo (training hall). Because it is our goal that you will always be received by well-prepared and skilled Chief Instructors and Instructors who will use all their abilities to create a Dojo and atmosphere with mutual respect and acceptance of each other, with room for everyone - adults and children. With a strong common set of values and very high skills in traditional multi-track martial arts.

We meet you where you are and take you on a journey in traditional multi-track martial arts, through holistic thinking, based on the unique martial arts system - Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do and a 100% structured curriculum manual.

What Shindenkan Denmark wants and expects from all members is that they have an open mind, that they want to learn Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do and that they follow Shindenkan's Dojo-kun at all times. Last but not least, that we all strive to live up to Shindenkan's set of values.

Because it is Shindenkan's value set that binds us together.

In Shindenkan Denmark we have a common set of values and it is this common set of values that binds us as well as a federation of member schools and members, as people and martial artists who share a common passion.

In Shindenkan Denmark, we live by a set of values that make room for everyone – the elite as the exerciser, Shindenkan Denmark always thinks first and foremost of the students in the local school. We believe in the people who are in Shindenkan Denmark and that the people who make a difference in the local associations as leaders and chief instructors work for the community and democracy.

Therefore, Shindenkan Denmark also has the rule that we never fail a Chief Instructor or a national contributor, so we always do the best we can to help each other, we always support from the association and provide the best resources we have, we always keep our agreements - we don't let those who need us down!

Because it is Shindenkan's values that bind us together and in Shindenkan Denmark we always help a friend!

Because it's the right thing to do... Don't you agree?

There is great dependence on scarce resources…

In all unique martial arts systems, it's the case that you can't just find Chief Instructors or Instructors out on the street or in the nearest town or even just bring them in from outside. It takes at least 10-15 years to build the necessary multi-track level of competence in Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do. In comparison to other single-track martial arts systems, usually just 3-5 years.

We know that Yakami Shinsei-ryu is mainly for those who want and are challenged more by the true Japanese samurai heritage. This compared to the relatively simple single-track martial arts systems, which are precisely designed to be - relatively simple, easy to access and therefore 3-5 times faster graduation progression in "belts".

But the competence gap is quite large!. That is why we continuously experience over the last 30 years that single-track brown and black belt instructors apply to Shindenkan to obtain Yakami Shinsei-ryu multi-track competences with a hidden financial aim of later establishing their own system in a small provincial town. A provincial town in which they most often grew up and therefore know "the village community and the often special mentality 100 %, where everyone knows everyone and knows everything about everyone".

Most often, the prices are doubled, the level of competence and requirements are lowered considerably, and there are board or own graduations of the new local system founder from 1st dan up to 5-7th dan, black belt, within a relatively few years and without further acquisition of professional development skills .

But surprisingly enough, the majority in the local community think it is completely normal and OK, as it is THEIR local "Karate Master".

It has taken us many years to recognize this greater difference in mentality, understated but significant perception of territory and belonging, and to understand that it makes Denmark significantly greater in terms of local mentality and attitude, and here we are not just talking about the stereotypical difference between "Jews, Copenhageners and Bornholmers".

This had never happened in a major Danish city, as all major Danish cities or metropolitan areas have a national as well as an international perspective and experience, and therefore have a completely different diversity, attitude and mentality.

Reality and experience show that therefore Shindenkan's target and student group is mainly concentrated here, but everyone is of course welcome, - Space for everyone, the Elite as the exerciser.

Shindenkan has involuntarily contributed to the realization of hidden personal dreams, inferiority, and created a number of local "Soke Karate Masters with their own martial arts system" in the local provincial town they were raised in, for the past 30 years. Some find it humorous that this is a compliment, but we are not particularly proud of this problem, as we feel it is "a lie and deception, a hoax and scam" towards other people.

In Shindenkan, the Chief Instructors are often the most important local resources in the running of a Shindenkan school.

It is the Head Instructor who has the main responsibility for development in the local school, just as it is the Head Instructor who has the license from Shindenkan honbu to teach Yakami Shinsei-Ryu Karate-do. It is also the Head Instructor who is the top local value-based role model who has the experience, commitment and drive and, not least, the Multi-track Competence which is the very foundation of the school's existence.

Therefore, both Shindenkan honbu dojo and Shindenkan Denmark also use a great deal of resources to train the Chief Instructor's leadership skills and to maintain and increase the level of competence in Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do for the benefit of both the Chief Instructor and members of the local school.

It doesn't always go as planned!

In Shindenkan Denmark, we have an open communication policy and we already know the tactics, because we have seen it many times before. It always starts with the head instructor, deputy head instructor or team instructor having reached the top and not wanting to develop any further – and that they don't want to admit it themselves!

But what do we do in Shindenkan Denmark when a Chief Instructor starts to fail and this affects the students so that they both dump the graduations and take a tangent away from Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do.

For the sake of the students and members, we mobilize help for the local school as soon as possible in the form of the best federation resources, tools and support - We of course stand up for each other and make mutual agreements between the Head Instructor, the board and Shindenkan Denmark.

The entire network is getting started - This is Shindenkan Denmark's value set!

But the great dependence on the Chief Instructor sometimes also leads to very inflated egos where the Chief Instructor forgets Shindenkan Denmark's value set and disregards the local association's purpose clause as well as his own humility in relation to local members and students - forgetting to be a role model!

All just to preserve the local image that Chief Instructors create of themselves!

So, in order for this not to be discovered by the members of the local school, the local chief instructors build up illusions with themselves as heroes - without telling the truth to the people who help because they basically don't care, as long as they achieve what they have planned - that is fairly cynical.

The consumption of aid resources increases and increases under the pretense that it is for the good of all, only to eventually be exposed as pure deception aimed at covering up a hidden agenda.

It's always the same… and why? Shindenkan honbu and Shindenkan Denmark have trained them and then suddenly they get other priorities!

And no matter how much support and help you give and offer, you discover that they have another agenda.

It is unsustainable in the long run to use many resources to help Chief Instructors and managers who fundamentally do not want to be helped. But in Shindenkan Denmark, we have no choice partly because we share a common set of values.

But we can reduce the risk by "Downsize - reduce & consolidate" for those who really want to, which was already published and started in relation to “Steps 1-5 of Strat21”, November 2015 and adopted by national and local general assemblies 2015 and 2016. It has already given good results and some significant bluffs have been exposed and exposed, as human baseness is often without limits, not very pretty , but step 5 – More Fun! Is a great success!.

How about honesty!

As chairman of the federation, I call for honesty - why is it so difficult to just admit it when we have reached our limit? Where are we going into big dramas and deceptions.

The world is not deception - the world is the world, deception and self-deception are created by people with low self-esteem.

Human nature is that they will at all times please themselves and avoid taking responsibility for themselves and their choices or the consequences that come with their choices. World history shows it!

World history also shows that the world does not stand still and the world was not created to satisfy our individual egos or for us to cultivate our own special interests - the world moves on despite our choice to stand still.

So why not just say goodbye peacefully, why does there always have to be a big drama out of it, why not just agree on a good plan for handover and then step back quietly and say thank you for the time you have been a part of something bigger than yourself!

Well, when the ego is hurt, the value set crumbles, when the ego is hurt, the mutual respect and acceptance disappears!

But who loses in the end - the members do and THAT is not right.