San Francisco Zen Budokai Aiki Jujitsu
This is a short section on the origins of Zen Budokai, excerpted from the document 20th Century Ju-Jitsu, By Russ St. Hilaire.
What Makes SF Zen Budokai Different
San Francisco Zen Budokai has a lot of things going for it. Our
instructors are above all else, great teachers. Many of them, and
indeed many of our students are
degreed martial artists in other arts. This brings a lot of different
influences and viewpoints to the instruction, which makes our practice
both realistic and interesting.
This isn't a rigid or boring class; we have a lot of fun here, and we
promote an environment of safety and mutual respect. In addition, our
membership has grown mostly by word-of-mouth, so the class sizes are
(intentionally) small and the quality of both instructors and students
is excellent.
Instructors
Professor Tim Delgman, 9th Degree
Sensei Tim Lichtenwald, 5th Degree
Sensei Doug Haight, 5th Degree
Sensei JT Taylor, 5th Degree
Sensei Bill Anderson, 4th Degree
Sensei Nader (Ned) Shatara, 4th Degree
Sensei Clint Lemay, 4th Degree
Sensei Irving Lee, 3rd Degree
Sensei Marcel Giraud, 3rd Degree
Sensei Ross Bernheim, 2nd Degree
Sensei Scott Moresi, 2nd Degree
Sensei Manuel Polanco, 2nd Degree
Sensei Thomas Burkholder, 1st Degree
Sensei Ryan Lee, 1st Degree
Sensei Gregory Perieff, 1st Degree
Contacts
Head Instructor: Professor Tim Delgman, 925-687-6520
Dojo: (415) 864-4827. Leave message or call during practice hours.
Questions or suggestions about this page:
Thomas K. Burkholder
Location
San Francisoco Zen Budokai works out at:
Academy of Tae Kwon Do
988 Oak Street
San Francisco CA, 94117
(415) 864-4827
Hours
Wednesday and Friday evenings, 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Saturday, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Sunday, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Fees
Fees are a flat rate of $95/month.
Technical terms from jujitsu, judo, karate, and aikido defined and explained. Work in Progress.
The complete Zen Budokai Aiki Ju Jitsu syllabus of techniques, by
board and by rank. Over time, each technique will acquire it's own
page of step-by-step instructions and possibly mpeg videos as well.
My thanks to these people for their help with putting together the website.
Zen Budokai Links
Stanford's Zen Budokai page Lots of good information, including a reasonably complete tree of instructors and students.
Professor Daniel Ustie's Aiki Budokai School (Danubury, Connecticut).
The Aiki Budokai Fall Street Dojo (Houston)
Sensei St. Hilaire's Kobukai Ju-jitsu (Hartford, Connecticut)
Zen Budokai South, contact Marcel at giraud01@yahoo.com or phone 949-701-1856
Duke Moore, Hanshi An article on Duke Moore, Zen Budokai's founder.
20th Century Jujutsu I found this page to be particularly informative. It is reproduced here by permission of the author. The origins of Zen Budokai are explained in the last section.
Danny Abramovitch's "Martial Arts Sites On The Web", Aiki-Ju Jitsu section. (Anyone have a current link for Danny's site? All links I've found recently are dead [burkhold])
LWC Books "Your Source For Action Books"
Pinewood Karate School's World Wide Web Site Index Features lots of good research, documents, and links.
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