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Open Budo Membership Community

Thanks for attending our seminar. You already know we do things a little differently.

Now we’re building the Open Budo Inner Circle — an online community for martial arts instructors and students who care deeply about preserving traditional training while using modern science-backed coaching methods to build real skill.

Whether you’re a school owner, a lifelong practitioner, or a curious coach experimenting with new ideas — you belong here.

Accountability: The Missing Link Between Tradition and Progress

If you've ever felt like you had to choose between:

- Practicing your art the old-school way

- Or switching entirely to modern, competitive methods...

...you’re not alone. But that’s a false choice.

The Open Budo community offers a third path. Unite with a group of other instructors like you, one that honors the scrolls, kata, and cultural lineage — while giving you tools from Ecological Dynamics, CLA, and other skill acquisition models to make your classes (and personal learning) more powerful than ever.

Bridging the Gap: The Missing Link Between Tradition and Performance

For decades, martial artists have stood at a crossroads.

On one side: the rich, disciplined, culturally rooted traditions of old-school Japanese jujutsu—kata, scrolls, lineage, and legacy.

On the other: the highly effective, data-driven training methods found in modern sport combat—drills, sparring, movement science, and measurable progress.

But what if you didn’t have to choose?

What if there was a way to preserve the soul of traditional Budo while embracing the insights of ecological dynamics, constraints-led coaching, and real skill acquisition science?

At Open Budo, we believe that path exists—and that it’s been missing for too long. We’re calling it what it is: The Missing Link.

This is the bridge between “doing the kata” and truly becoming skilled.

It’s the link between traditional schools and modern athletes.

Between techniques handed down through scrolls… and methods that hold up under resistance and pressure.

And we’re here to help you walk that path.

Whether you’re a coach, a school owner, or a lifelong student, our community, courses, and coaching offer the tools to combine the best of both worlds:

• Preserve tradition without becoming a museum.

• Train with realism without losing meaning.

• Teach with clarity using proven learning science.

• Grow your community by helping students stay longer and grow stronger.

Because old-school doesn’t mean outdated—and new-school doesn’t have to mean soulless.

On full launch, the choices will be something like these. (We’d like to get you on pre-launch, fully involved and engaged)

Free Tier

✅ Access to the General Discussion Channel
✅ Kata Teaching Formula Discussion (based on the publicly released info)
✅ Warmups Discussion (based on the publicly released info)

Inner Circle Members

✅ Everything in the Free Tier
✅ Live Monthly Sessions + Recorded Q&A Meetups
✅ Monthly events to ask questions, share insights, and grow with us.
✅ Get support from fellow martial artists and coaches also experimenting with how to teach and train better. Share your wins, your adaptations, and your “a-ha” moments.
✅ Accountability Partners dedicated to constant improvement in coaching and learning theories and practices.
✅ Coaching and community dedicated using constraints to shape perception-action coupling
✅ Coaching and community dedicated to the “how” of implementing Repetition Without Repetition
✅ Designing curriculum through the lens of Shu-Ha-Ri and modern motor learning science
✅ Ask the Open Budo team your questions directly. Get guidance, share clips, and engage with real feedback.

Why a Community Makes All the Difference

You’ve probably read the books. Watched the videos. Maybe even trained for decades.

But here’s the truth: growth doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

Most Takamatsu-den (xKan orgs as we always see online) coaches we talk to are hungry for evolution. They want to teach better, train smarter, and stay rooted in the deep traditions that brought them here in the first place.

But figuring that out alone is tough. We usually fall back on “[so-and-so] Sensei always did it this way when I was in Japan.” And this may work for the strictly lineage information if you’ve found inspiration there. When we’re wondering about effectiveness and skill acquisition based on the contemporary science and actual human studies in that area, many are still wary of adding something to their training and coaching schemas.

That’s why we’re building the Open Budo Inner Circle—a space for instructors, students, and coaches to share methods, solve problems, and get inspired. This is where you can ask questions, test new ideas, and stop feeling like you’re on your own.

Whether you’re fully committed to tradition or just starting to explore Ecological Dynamics and modern skill acquisition, you’ll find insights here that you won’t get anywhere else—and a community that’s doing the same work you are.

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The Inner Circle isn’t just content. It’s connection.

• It’s where ideas get refined through conversation.

• It’s where you finally get feedback on what’s working — and what’s not.

• It’s where you learn from other coaches and practitioners who are also walking this path.

When you have access to others who are thinking like you — mixing tradition with science — everything accelerates.

This community gives you the clarity and confidence to keep evolving… and the support to do it without gatekeepers.

📍 Join the Inner Circle waitlist and let’s build it together.

A Founding Member Membership Unlocks the Missing Link

You already believe in the value of tradition. And you’re smart enough to know modern methods work. But there hasn’t been a clear bridge between the two — until now.

Our Founding Member offer gives you early access to that bridge.

This isn’t just about new drills or better warmups. It’s about helping martial arts teachers and students evolve — by finally integrating time-tested techniques with cutting-edge learning science like Ecological Dynamics and the Constraints-Led Approach.

You’ll still have kata. You’ll still honor your lineage. But now you’ll also have real tools for increasing skill, retention, and student engagement — without abandoning what makes old-school Budo so powerful.

This membership is your chance to grow alongside a new generation of coaches, leaders, and learners who aren’t afraid to explore what actually works.

You’re not just joining early — you’re helping shape what this becomes.

🔓 Founding Member pricing will be a big discount. We have to pay for the platform and all the perks. Let us know now so we can update you with our progress.

Founding Members Also Get:

- Lifetime discounted pricing as long as your account is active.

- Early access to new material

- Influence in shaping the direction of our community

👋 Who Are We?

We’re a small group of budoka, coaches, and educators who have spent years in traditional Japanese martial arts. We've also studied skill acquisition science, Ecological Dynamics, the Constraints-Led Approach, movement design, and curriculum development.

We’ve blended these worlds to help you:

- Keep your art alive and relevant

- Train safer and smarter

- Teach in ways that empower real skill development

Ready?

You don’t need to abandon your art. You just need a better way to pass it on.

This is that way.