Due to the Corona Pan epidemic, it has not been possible to complete Yakami Shinsei-Ryu brown and black belt graduations since the summer of 2019 – 3 years.
The reason for this is the 1000-year-old cultural heritage's requirement for multi-track system competences through stop tests over typically 4-5 weeks. Therefore, there is a preparation time from setting of 6-12 months. The single-track competencies (I-IV) are shown discreetly through a stop test; OBC Competence Mark certifications, which take place every year, so the level of competence is kept at a nationally standardized minimum. The OBC Competence marks constantly reflect the present. This means that members cannot "rest on their laurels and live on the merits of the past", but invest their time in maintaining and developing their multi-track competences.
Yakami Shinsei-Ryu (YSK) is a multi-track cultural historical martial arts system with more than 1,000 years of history. There are therefore special requirements for a graduation course to brown and black belt competence level. In Shindenkan, we call this a stop test course, typically over 5 weeks, with a dedicated preparation time of at least one season.
It is a completely voluntary course, where of course special emphasis is placed on the YSK skills, but also on the human confirmation and development aspects with the building of lasting benefits for self-esteem and self-confidence, which can be used outside Shindenkan; School, high school, university, work, social life, family, etc.
The first basic stop tests are structured according to two purposes;
- A stop test course over which the graduate in question has 100 % control, as long as he meets the same minimum requirements applicable to everyone. This part requires self-discipline, planning, prioritization and stamina typically over 6-12 months, depending on level of ambition and option/opt-out.
- A Stop test course, which 100 % follows the graduation handbook applicable to everyone, and where the number of requirements for stop tests depends on the degree the graduate in question must reach.
The first part where the graduate in question has 100 % control is; AYAME
The AYAME mark – physical tests which ensure that the graduate can, in terms of health, complete a graduation course, physically, psychologically, mentally, with a risk-minimized and safe completion for himself and others. Basically, this is physical training at different levels. But since this is a cultural historical martial arts system, this part is of course 100 % optimized for the task in Shindenkan. In addition to fitness tests, which are typically running, cycling, rowing, swimming, there are health-promoting elements completely unique to Shindenkan; KataFIT and SKK – Stretch Ki Kata. Unique elements that train and fine-tune both the exterior and interior of a person with more than 1,000 years of Eastern and Western knowledge skills behind them.
The two optional options, which the graduate must consider before tests and cannot change afterwards, are;
- The normal chosen physical requirement pack is Ayame Kuroi – Black. It consists of two stop tests which are usually taken within a week. The first has the main focus on fitness and self-control. The second has the main focus on optimal energy balance between correct use of breath and body, mind, spirit, through functional full-body training at different levels.
- Precisely the local as national training in; KataFIT and SKK – Stretch Ki Kata, which are gradually raised in skill level and understanding every year, are completely unique Shindenkan tools. But at the same time, copying is also made more difficult, as the multi-track Yakami Shinsei system has always been and is a very favorite object for this. The gradual release of competence knowledge also means that 90+ % of the members do not need to do strength and conditioning training in a gym at all. This saves both time and money, as the gym quota can be saved.
- The requirement for Ayame Kuroi is a health score from high to very high, depending on degree requirements and data from the Scandinavian age group. The same applies to KataFIT level and type. SKK is the same.
- Can everyone pass Ayame Kuroi? Yes, they can if they want to and make the effort to do so. It has 50+ years of history shown, and it's both teenagers, girls, boys, men, women, Old boys & Girls, Wonder boys & girls. You get guidance, help and optimization advice along the way. But you can't bluff your way through.
- Everyone must pass the same thing and must go through the same thing. It's the same rules for everyone. Those who often fail do not want or have not understood these rules and facts. Most often, it is muscular or intellectually well-articulated boys and men who often appear confident, who look cool or have been very cool, say those who most often have to report. It's a great shame as they could easily pass if they just sat down and listened. Those who do this survive, and fortunately the vast majority do!
- AYAME GOLD – GOLD IRIS, are the absolute highest physical, psychological and mental demands according to the Scandinavian population for the world's elite. This applies especially to health statistics. You must select and complete Ayame GOLD in advance. It's all or nothing. Either you pass or you don't. Attempt. For AYAME Kuroi you have two attempts.
- 9 out of 10 who proclaim their choice of AYAME GOLD this season are men. But the facts are out of approx. 42,000 since 1965-67, there are only three who have passed AYAME GOLD during a YSK graduation course. All three are slender girls in the group; JokoTeens, Adult, Old Girl or Wonder Girl. They made a plan, followed it and carried it out without any major problems and in high spirits. Many boys and men have tried. But never completed or skipped shortly before the graduation process started. We still encourage boys and men to also pass an AYAME GOLD. Shindenkan celebrates diversity and balance – both ways, all ways.
- After a graduate under formalized national graduation courses has passed AYAME twice, the graduate is given a role model AYAME KUROI or AYAME GOLD, which is sewn onto the gi. In this way, other graduates in spe can always distinguish between advisers who have an opinion and those who have actually made a fact-based difference and completed AYAME - twice. Even the absolute coolest Superman or woman will fail the AYAME stop tests without optimal technical preparation. They can take the fitness part, but not the KataFIT part from TG4+ onwards. Here, 99.9% will "die from lack of oxygen" due to the energy, physiology and respiratory balance to which all humans are subject. Advice is most often free and non-binding, but the consequences of wrong or "I was cool once" advice is that the graduate in spe dumps after a preparation period which often extends over 6-12 months.
The next stop tests are more traditional according to the syllabus handbook last updated in 2009. Here is the full overview of all the stop tests.
Multi-track brown belt degrees (3rd Kyu – 1st Kyu) and multi-track black belts;
- AYAME Stop test 1 – Physical dynamic fitness test – Fitness test high to very high for world elite + short physical dynamic strength test KataFIT 5S
- AYAME Stop test 2 – Physical dynamic strength test – KataFIT 8S, 10S, 12S or 15S – fitness, whole-body strength, and self-discipline over 6-12 months.
- Stop test 3 – Ryugi test in writing – theoretical test 20 questions – the degree obliges to impart knowledge
- Stop test 4 – Ryugi test oral preparedness – theoretical test – the degree obliges knowledge dissemination, also under stress
- Stop test 5 – Ryuha test – Syllabus practical & technical from 10.kyu and up to the degree.
- Stop test 6 – OBC KM annual certification – multi-track of the single-track competencies for the degree – discrete.
- Stop test 7 – Shiai from 2.kyu onwards – free fight without weight, age, sex, classes, full contact, floor fight and minimum rules. Reflects and prepares – if reality is unfortunate.
- Stop test 8 – Stamina test. Test of willpower, attitude and stamina after a 5-week graduation course
- Stop test 9 – Role models worthy of the degree during at least the last three joint events. Humility to the task and holistic results orientation
Additionally for multi-track Yakami Shinsei-Ryu black belts (1st Dan – 3rd Dan) and higher;
- Stop Test 10 – Bunbu Ichi – Thesis – Independent personal written assignment which is deeply confidential much to the chagrin of many
- Stop test 11 – Summer meeting – basic teaching test completed satisfactorily. Role model & instructor when you are totally exhausted after 5 weeks of graduation. Besides own nose tip.
- Stop test 12 – The rising extraordinary to highly unusual as a role model; Katsu-Jin (50/55/60+ years), Kohaku-jin (Documented Physiological Minority Percentage of min. 8/12/15/18/30 %), AYAME GOLD and others.
It is hereby confirmed that the below mentioned member of the Shindenkan, on Saturday June 18, 2022 has been appointed and graduated by Yamana-Itotani Sensei after passing all 12 of 12 stop tests in the graduation process lasting 5 weeks for TG5.
DENSHO Black Belt Graduation;
Anette Katrine Bjarkmann
- Densho; THE SHODEN
- 2. Dan, Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do (the multi-track martial arts system)
- 3rd Dan, Bujutsu Kodosoku-kai Jikitai Karate-do (Originally gl. Original Okinawa Karate-do)
- 4. Dan, Bujutsu Kodosokukai sports karate-do (Gensei-Ryu legacy from 1965-67 and comparable degree to Shotokan, Goju-ryu, Taekwondo, Judo, Jujutsu, Kendo, etc.)
- Title; Anette + Shishu
Special unique to very special role model remarks;
- Katsu-Jin 56 years, 62 kg, trained actively since 2007. Cont. Competition dancer, kickboxer, Cross Fit, runner.
- Kohaku-Jin with documented medical total negative percentage of resp. 12% and 18 % on each knee.
- Ayame GOLD (Gold Iris). Number 2! as the only one ever out of approx. 40,000 since 1965-67, and the only one in both the Old Girls (age 50) and Wonder Women class (over 55).
- Passed the first Ayame Gold together with her youngest daughter in 2018 and got the Shindenkan record of 16½ minutes during the endurance test. Anette and her two daughters, Viktoria, 21 years, 1.dan YSK, medical student, Elisabet, 27 years, SHODEN, Attorney at Law are the only ones who have passed the GOLD Ayame since 1965-67. It is currently ONLY girls who have pre-selected and completed Gold Ayame, as the first two stop tests during a graduation course, from 2nd kyu, Brown belt YSK. We hope that during Strat25 we also achieve diversity with boys and men who choose, train and actually trust themselves so much that they can pass the world elite requirements for their age group; GOLD AYAME.
- Anette's requirements for a very high fitness score for her age group, AYAME KUROI is 42+. The world elite minimum requirement is 50 and the top 72. The men's is correspondingly 60 to 90. Anette got 60+ in Fitness, i.e. quite warm in the middle of the women's world elite fitness score for all age groups.
- Anette, passed all other stop tests with at least 95+% to 100 %, just like in 2018.
- Background; Cand.Merc., HR Business Partner, Married (1994), two children aged 21 and 27.
It is hereby confirmed that the below mentioned members of the Shindenkan, on Saturday June 18, 2022 have been appointed and graduated by Yamana-Itotani Sensei after passing all 9 of 9 stop tests in the graduation process lasting 5 weeks for TG3.
Yakami Shinsei-Ryu brown belt graduations;
Helene Grønfeldt
Lea Norsgaard
Mads Villadsen
William Grønfeldt
- 3.kyu, Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do (the multi-track martial arts system)
- 2.kyu, Bujutsu Kodosoku-kai Jikitai Karate-do (Original gl. Original Okinawa Karate-do)
- 2.kyu, Bujutsu Kodosokukai sports karate-do (Gensei-Ryu legacy from 1965-67 and comparable degree to Shotokan, Goju-ryu, Taekwondo, Judo, Jujutsu, Kendo, etc.)
- OBC KM3 year certified 2022-2023.
Special role model remarks;
- All passed Ayame Kuroi the first time with health scores high for their age group (Conditions 42 to 61).
- All graduates passed without problems all other stop tests with very high cut from 85% to 100 %, were very convincing and had mega good attitude, which is quite special and unusual after 5 weeks
- Mads is dyslexic and was helped by his club mate Pia for several months for the Ryugi stop tests (Theory) and passed the written and oral Ryugi test without any problems. Super life-affirming process!
- Lea went to the university's bachelor's exams at the same time as the graduation process at a very high level of competence, and will soon go to Canada to improve her skills by studying abroad for ½ year.
- Mother and eldest son, Helene and William supported each other 100 % with cheerful but active backup from younger brother, Jonathan and moral support from Scottish husband, Ian. A super life-affirming family project!
- Helene Grønfeldt, 46 years old, Kondital 42, Master of Laws, Data Protection Officer
- Lea Norsgaard, 21 years, Kondital 45, Cand.Scient.Bac.Stud KU
- Mads Villadsen, 17 years old, Kondital 58, high school student
- William Grønfeldt, 15 years, Kondital 61, High school student.
Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do 4. Kyu graduations
Niels Sejer Schnedler-Sørensen
Mads Emil Legind Hansen
- 4. Kyu, Yakami Shinsei-ryu Karate-do (the multi-track martial arts system)
- 3. Kyu, Bujutsu Kodosoku-kai Jikitai Karate-do (Originally gl. Original Okinawa Karate-do)
- 3. Kyu, Bujutsu Kodosoku-kai sports karate-do (Gensei-Ryu legacy from 1965-67 and comparable degree to Shotokan, Goju-ryu, Taekwondo, Judo, Jujutsu, Kendo, etc.)
- Niels Sejer Schnedler-Sørensen, 62 years old, Master of Laws, Ministry of Food.
- Mads Emil Legind Hansen, 16 years old, high school student
The official dump percentage since the process started in August 2021, after two humanly very hard and challenging Corona years: Up to black; 90 % and up to brown; 80 %.
Shindenkan Honbu dojo wishes everyone hearty congratulations on graduations/appointments, which you have rightly earned through great continuous effort.
Competence graduations
- Kotachi Pack 1; all participants on the floor; all passed. Congratulations.
- Jojutsu Pack 1; all the participants on the floor; all passed. Congratulations
Also congratulations to the 57 other Shindenkaners who passed their graduations.
Best regards,
Yamana-Itotani Sensei
Jokokan International and Bujutsu Kodosokukai Sodenke
Kaicho Shindenkan and Kaidenkan
Explanations to the reader;
We salute our heroes and heroines!
Katsu-Jin and Kohaku-Jin – with room for everyone;
Concepts were adopted during the 2017 general assembly, following pilot testing and development by Shindenkan's Competence and Development Center (SKUC). The concept is based on facts, statistics and practically applied medicine. Shindenkan's motto is "Space for everyone, the elite as the exerciser". It has included everyone so far, but Strat20 and Strat25 "Fill the ranks out, higher, wider and longer" has meant that several have gained the skills to graduate to TG3, TG4 and TG5. Nothing stands still in reality – development is needed.
It is a great success, but does not include everyone. It takes an average of 9-12 years to become a 1st dan in the multi-track system, Yakami Shinsei-Ryu. A lot can happen in the course of 9-12 years with physical injuries, illness and operations. But physical injuries do not mean that you do not carry the will in your heart, mind and brain and with the right attitude for development and progression! This is especially true the older you get. It is a natural physical development that is most often founded BEFORE you became a member of Shindenkan.
With the concepts of Kohaku-Jin (recognized mén degree over 8 %) and Katsu-Jin (Age over 50/55/60+ years) it has been taken into account that we pay tribute to our heroes and heroines and you are NEVER too old to learn, develop, train and be good to yourself - and others.
We know from experience that it is not at all good for yourself or others if you have stalled in your development and progression as a person for too many years. This is especially true for Yakami Shinsei-Ryu brown and black belts with child and youth drive anchors.
But until 2017, we had not had a sustainable concept, where graduates in spe, must pass physical stop tests with "One size fits all - same rules apply to all", - but who are simply semi-disabled and therefore either cannot or as a consequence will end up completely disabled. But they can from 2017 and now! The core of the concept is that anyone can take KataFIT - if they train regularly and do it technically correctly. It is not always optimal in terms of health to take fitness tests with running, cycling, swimming, rowing, IF you have a recognized AES minus percentage more than approx. 12+ % on e.g. knees, hips. We have successfully tested gentle elliptical cross-trainers as an alternative for multiple injury percentages - multiple body parts. But there are still a few who cannot do this properly. The same applies to Shiai – the freestyle test, where fast fluid movements and uncontrollable floor fights are the norm. Age also plays a role here, statistically speaking especially after the age of 45. There is, of course, individual specialist medical assessment on each individual graduate in spe. But the last and decisive word has Yamana-Itotani Sensei, as supreme responsible grading judge.
To meet the same conditions as everyone else, KataFIT can be significantly increased in number. KataFIT not only provides good health, strength and well-being on several levels, but also really good fitness.
We know that statistically for more than 90 % of all KataFIT exercisers, KataFIT 12S gives at least a high fitness index and KataFIT 15S very high fitness index according to the average for the Scandinavian population. In this way, the fitness figure can be compensated and stimulated. We have called this AYAME CHAIRO.
Grading of illness and injury;
Illness and injury graduation can take place if there are at least three graduands in spe who will be healthy enough, within three months of the season, to go up to an illness and injury graduation, if there are resources for this.
The prerequisite is that all graduates in spe have been formally appointed and are documented injured within the process leading up to formal summer graduation. That is they HAVE started the training course according to formal setting no. 2 and formal setting no. 3.
To avoid speculation, different heights have also been taken for this, which are assessed from person to person. Track record is the starting point. Sickness injuries are usually acute serious physical injuries, such as serious medically documented; 3+ months of fiber ruptures, sprains to broken limbs, over surgeries, brain tumors to long term serious illnesses.
Influenza, colds, etc. are not considered within the accepted disease area.
KATAFIT and SKK – Stretch Ki Kata
KataFIT is a holistic health and health training on several levels, which uses the latest new research, so the training is as effective, injury-preventing and training, stress-reducing and quality-of-life-promoting, in the shortest possible time. KataFIT is trained without aids and can therefore be performed anywhere and at any time. KataFIT forms a bridge between eastern and western research, but according to the KISS principle, just like with the POMW project; Keep IT Simple & Safe. KataFIT has already produced spectacular results that have been noted internationally.
SKK – Stretch Ki Kata is in optimal and clean execution "Moving meditation". Like KataFIT, SKK is scalable for everyone – from beginner white belt to the first real martial art denshograd; MENKYO – Master of all the Martial arts. The toolbox comes from 1,000 years of essential knowledge systematized through Yakami Shinsei-Ryu. It is quite unique and tailor-made for Shindenkan's purpose.
Where KataFIT works both on the inner and outer lines on several levels, KataFIT can be seen especially on the outer lines – a healthy visible and marked functionally trained body and attitude. So in short – Shindenkaners – they just look good! 🙂 . SKK trains the inner lines more. Stretching of the body, muscles, ligaments, nerve pathways, etc. But also the body's electrical median pathways and energy nodes - we call it "knocking the rust off the water pipes". In addition, Ki – energy explosions are trained, when an extra amount has to be cleaned and the energy pressure is increased in the water pipes. Together, KataFIT and SKK – IN/YO – Ying/Yang provide extra focus on body, emotional, psychological, mental and spiritual awareness and attention training. It is also one of Shindenkan's purpose clauses – to make a difference in modern society, both for the individual and for everyone, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, education, social status and starting point. "We meet you where you are and take you on a journey".
Practical – what is KataFIT? What can you directly compare it to? Most people are happy with the whole-body oriented "Plank exercise" and 1-2 minutes in it. All of the above grads take anywhere from 2 to over 6+ minutes without issue. Which is very good. But when you then add that the Plank is dynamic and requires coordination and movement, at the same time as you have constant whole-body cross muscle tension, then the KataFIT version is usually described as the better dynamic plank form.
Okay, most people say it's very impressive, but there are many others who can also do it with training. Yes, that is absolutely correct. But before this "element", the KataFIT practitioner has already performed two other full-body "exercise elements", such as where you stand in a normal technically correct plank and take slow arm stretches, each lasting approx. 4-12 seconds depending on the three KataFIT version steps, all with correct and optimal breathing, as otherwise the body's energy processes cannot produce enough energy for you to complete this exercise element, especially up to and after KataFIT 8S.
KataFIT is a Kata – i.e. figure exercises that are performed beautifully and fluently non-stop, as a Budo Kata should be performed - there is basically no difference. A KataFIT 5S, which is the standard starting point in all Shindenkan schools, lasts approx. 22.5 minutes and usually burns between 200-300 KCAL. A KataFIT 12S lasts approx. 38.5 minutes, and a KataFIT 15 takes approx. 46.5 minutes.
Since KataFIT is both full-body strength training and cardio training, all KataFIT practitioners will achieve a significant improvement in both parts. The above graduates have a conservative fitness score measured by traditional recognized tests of 42 to 61. All without exception reached or were close to their maximum heart rate during the KataFIT 8S and 15S. The maximum heart rate is the absolute highest pulse value that your heart can achieve. If your maximum heart rate is 180, this means that your heart has the capacity to beat 180 times a minute when it is under maximum pressure.
Now many may think that "I will never be able to do this!" and it's only for "the big strong muscle boys". But here the answer is that you can do much more than you and others tell you!
And by the way, it's only three slender girls out of approx. 40,000 which has passed the highest stop test test mark; AYAME GOLD. All the "big strong muscle boys" gave up before or could not complete.
The above are completely ordinary Danes who also felt the same as you might be thinking, until they found out that they could do much more than they thought! In addition, it is far from certain that just because you LOOK strong, that you are, since true strength comes from within. Reality has shown that most people in traditional really good shape have not been able to complete a KataFIT 5S without proper technical and long-term training and instruction. Remember KataFIT and SKK are in their highest form "Moving Meditation".
Many really good strength trainers, after a while in frustration, have abandoned KataFIT around the 8S, and gone back to the gym's more traditional and simple training methods. The main reason is that KataFIT uses both aerobic and anaerobic training methodologies, and the higher the KataFIT number, the more you need oxygen and correctly synchronized breathing between movement and breathing. Otherwise, the body's energy production simply does not work optimally, and therefore even the strongest man or woman in the world comes to a standstill if this is not in place. It is very logical and simple. But some feel it like a straitjacket when you are constantly "training along the edge of the cliff", even though it is quite natural and physiologically conditioned and has been so ever since the origin of man.
KataFIT can be trained by everyone without exception, shape, injuries, without injuries and goals. The KataFIT train takes you on a journey, and even KataFIT 1S, which everyone in Shindenkan starts with, will with 99% make a positive contribution to your quality of life and your life. You are welcome!
KataFIT, which belongs to the 5-year Shindenkan SHIELD KISS project, which replaced the POMW project ( www.pomwproject.com ), you can read more about here; ( www.shieldkiss.com ).
