Jiu-Jitsu is the all-round fighting system

 Why is that?

At our Bridport based martial arts school "Ichinen Bridport" we train traditional Japanese Jiu-Jitsu. This is not a sport, its a way of life. We focus on self defence skills, physical and mental fitness and well being and trust in friendship with each other. 

Discipline, respect, endurance, hard training and focussing on targets. Set up by yourself and your Sensei.

Jiu-Jitsu is not this fancy dress rolling on the floor around sport, but a way of life in the tradition of the ancient warriors. 

We train continuously our all-round techniques. We do:

Throws

Locks

Chokes and strangling

Nerve grips

All legal natural weapons

All unnatural weapons

Punching

Kicks

Sparring

Boxing

Hold downs

Close combat

Out door training

* and keep on mind: Karate, Aikido and Judo were made from Jiu-Jitsu >>> 

the mother of all Japanese originated martial arts.

Ewan Roe achieved 6th Kyu Jiu-Jitsu in Bridport

12 year old Ewan Roe from Westbay / Bridport passed his first grading on the 8th of February 2024. Ewan joined Ichinen Bridport Jiu-Jitsu for children first in 2019, but than the miraculous Covid scam stopped the whole country to do what everyone wanted to do and consequently Ichinen Bridport Jiu-Jitsu had to stop the children's classes. 

Now Ewan caught up with this long break and did a very good grading with his partner Marlow (5th Kyu). Master Horst Lindenau from Ichinen Bridport Jiu-Jitsu: "Big congratulations my boy! Keep on going!" 

Martial arts is a great way to develop children's abilities, both mental and physical. and on a long term, they learn good self defence skills too.

Master Horst Lindenau earns 4th Dan Jiu-Jitsu

Bridport martial artist Horst Lindenau received his 4th Dan after a waiting time of four years after his last grading in 2019. Master Horst is today the highest decorated martial arts teacher in Bridport with over 40 years of teaching experience, both adults and children.

These are his current qualifications:

6th Dan Anti Terror Combat

6th Dan BlackCombat

4th Dan Jiu-Jitsu

2nd Dan Anti-Terrorkampf (German based style)

Diploma sports teacher

Congratulations Master Horst!

Bridport juniors train traditional Jiu-Jitsu

 Jiu-Jitsu master Horst Lindenau started teaching children in Bridport over 30 years ago. Master Horst came over from Germany, where he was educated in the art of Jiu-Jitsu and under supervision of late Grandmaster Horst Weiland (10th Dan) learned how to run children classes successfully.

Today we train in Bridport at the St.Catherines primary school. Every Thursday at 0546 pm.

If you like to get involved ring or text 07968-235486

 Currently 3 spaces open. 

Life is a fight - if so, you be better prepared!

Here at Ichinen Bridport, meanwhile the oldest martial arts school in Bridport, we take self defence serious. If you study martial arts and there is no effective weapon training involved, you taking a challenge. Today's street violence and domestic abuse calls for professional training and advise. Ichinen Bridport  Jiu-Jitsu every Thursday.

Explore the world through martial arts

If I wouldn't have all my various projects to work on and they need to be completed as planned... honestly another good plan is to travel the world. Just hitch hike in my Gi and visit a worldwide list of martial arts places. Dojos, events, important people and so on. 

Everybody could do so. Come and join Ichinen Bridport Jiu-Jitsu. Learn the basics and off you go!

 

Bridport Jiu-Jitsu master retired

Big change at Ichinen Bridport. Our Master Lewis A. Harris, 2nd Dan Jiu-Jitsu has retired from active training. Lewis trained with us since 2014, after he finished 8 years of Krav Maga training and was a 1st Kyu in Kyukoshin Kai Karate. He achieved the 2nd Dan in BlackCombat. Lewis will be 71 years and has trained active until now. Jiu-Jitsu at Ichinen Bridport keeps young!

He always supported everybody with his experience and great martial arts attitude. And he hardly ever missed a session. Even when he couldn't train he attended the class and watched. Now his membership upgraded to a membership of honour and Lewis will assist the club when required, such as gradings and special occasions. We all miss you on the mat and wish you all well for the future! Thank you Lewis for all your good work!

And now we go altogether to his favourite Indian, the Taj Mahal in Bridport and celebrate a bit. All the very best for the future Master Lewis!

Lewis graduated as 2nd Dan Jiu-Jitsu in 2022. Photo shows Master Horst Lindenau presents his certificate and his grading partners from left Mike Beaumont-Eves, Mark Butt and Paul Blake.

                                                Lewis as a new brown belt Jiu-Jitsu

Lewis receives the "member of the month" certificate from Master Horst Lindenau from Ichinen Bridport Jiu-Jitsu in 2017

As we say at Ichinen Bridport Jiu-Jitsu: No children - no future!

 

 Foto: Young Jago in the center holding his grading certificate. Big congratulations Jago!

 

March 31st Jago Saines (12) from Broadwindsor became a 5th Kyu Jiu-Jitsu at Ichinen Bridport. Young Jago is a member of the Jiu-Jitsu children group and already joined in September 2019. He had to take a long break from his training due to the lockdown and enjoys now every minute at our new Dojo in the St. Catherine's school in Bridport.

January 2020 Jago received his 6th Kyu Jiu-Jitsu from Master Horst Lindenau 3rd Dan.

 

Happy new year to all martial artists all over the world.

 

Just another year is gone with the 2020 and if you are not making any changes to your action 2021 won't be much different.

As the legend master Bruce Lee said:"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of".

I wish you all a happy new year, with lots of training and love and peace!

GDPR Data Protection Legislation - your legal rights and protection

Important, please read and confirm notice

GDPR Data Protection Legislation

Dear Member,

A new data privacy law is being introduced in the UK in May. As a result, we are publishing a new Privacy Notice to make it easier for you to find out how Ichinen Bridport uses and protects your personal data.

The Privacy Notice provides additional information about what we do and sets out your rights in line with the General Data Protection Regulation including information such as:

 your increased rights in relation to the information we hold about you

 the legal basis on which we collect data about you, how we collect it and use it

 how long we retain your data

The Privacy Notice will apply to any services we provide to you and is effective from 25 May 2018. It ensures we continue to comply with privacy law and regulation. There are no changes to your terms and conditions. If we make changes to these, we will let you know.

Confidentiality and GDPR Data Protection

When you share your personal information with us, you have a right to expect that information to be treated with total confidentiality. Therefore, it is our responsibility to manage your personal data that you provide to us with care and in accordance with all data protection legislation and industry best practice.

Whether you have supplied your personal details online, by phone, by email or in a letter, we will never use them without a lawful reason to do so. We will use your personal data for the purposes for which they were initially requested and as fully explained in this Privacy Policy.

All information about you of a sensitive or personal nature will be treated as private and

confidential. We will however use and disclose the information we have about you in the course of arranging, placing and administering your insurance. This may involve passing information about you to insurers, other intermediaries, risk management assessors, uninsured loss recovery agencies and other third parties involved (directly or indirectly) in your insurance. We may with your permission also pass information about you to other Ichinen Bridport Members which are in, or are associated with, our school.

If you do not wish to receive information from them, or for us to disclose information

about you to other parties, please contact us immediately. In the interests of security and to

improve our service, telephone calls may be monitored and/or recorded.

At Ichinen Bridport we take 1st aid serious

To improve the safety of our local Bridport martial art school, we have introduced now the position of a "first aid officer". Our  member Trevor Barton is from now on in that role. Trevor is fully trained and certified and will assist Master Horst Lindenau in the future with any issues they might occur regarding first aid and safety of the school.

Master Horst Lindenau just passed a refresher course for the martial art first aid and as the chief coach of Ichinen Bridport self defence school he will be still fully in charge and responsible anything regarding health and safety of the club and the first aid in general.

Ichinen Bridport Martial Arts with new badge

Looking good our new school emblem on Karate Gi

Meditation is an act of simplicity

Meditation on a rock visiting Vietnam

Meditation is nothing complicated. A retired fisherman who sits at the harbour with a glass of tea and watches the world goes by or an old lady sitting in front of the fire and knits... they both do a kind of meditation. 

It becomes more complicated if you are not one of both. In our today’s fast paced complicated world, being simple has become a lost art I would say. With Ichinen Bridport and Master Horst you can get assistance to learn for yourself to find the way you always had on mind you should go.

Master Horst Lindenau is a trained doorman too

It is already a year ago since I passed my doorman training at the academy in Taunton. To teach Martial Arts  as self defence too as we do at Ichinen Bridport Jiu-Jitsu, it requires a lot of training and several qualifications for the instructors. Next I have to do is the CRB check again. Than soon the 1. aid is due, followed by the renewal seminar as a coach. 

But you as a student don't need to worry about all this. You just concentrate on your path. Growing with Jiu-Jitsu.

Knifing in a town nearby

Update  >>> 

Anti Terror Combat is now called BlackCombat!

Last Sunday a 28 year old man got stabbed five times in the town nearby during a street fight with a 41 year old man.

It all happened late night at about 2.30 am and the trouble started outside a pub and then continued along through three streets, ending with the stabbing.

Again that reminds me to a comment of the local police here, that our town doesn't need seminars,
teaching knife defence. Then I was holding a special knife defence seminar for Bridport door staff.

The younger man has been seriously injured, as to read in the daily paper. Of course, knifes can injure very badly. Interesting what a local councillor commented. He said:” We do have trouble in town centre on different occasions, that’s true. Our biggest problem is the lack of police in the town at night.

My answer to that, better safe than sorry. Get prepared. Times are not getting better unfortunately and the evil crime swoops over from big towns. Learn the art of self defence here at Ichinen Bridport Jiu-Jitsu with Master Horst Lindenau. Former Anti-Terror-Kampf Master (from Germany) and Anti Terror Combat chief instructor. Every Thursday in Bridport. Martial Arts for you! Starts 7.00 pm.

This is a selection of nasty weapons you can get confronted with nowadays in a street fight

What drives someone to commit a violent act?

I have found this in a magazine and think it is quite informative about our stressful, violent or just out of order behavior. Looks like that some of the usual suspects don't have some kind of responsibility, as it is in their genes. Please click on the picture and enlarge it for easy reading.

Very often I am asked, why do you train these techniques to pupils? Doesn't it make people even more aggressive or violent? And my answer is, no it is the opposite. Someone who has got an aggressive touch in himself, can either be retrained on this matter. And if not, believe me, these kind of people don't stay long. Because they haven't got the stamina to keep on going on top of their other bad behavior. So here at Ichinen Bridport you are safe.

Next Jiu-Jitsu session in Bridport will be on Thursday the 29th at 7 pm. See you there!

Good Jiu-Jitsu session last night at Ichinen Bridport

Last night we trained the fortress. It was inspired by Carl Cooper a former Krav Maga instructor and inventor of the Toxic fighting system. Carl run a class in Exeter and one of his students, Lewis Harris, joined the Bridport based self defense class at Ichinen Bridport with Master Horst Lindenau.

Horst:" Lewis is a great added value to our school and I appreciate his knowledge in real self defense." We all enjoyed a good session of martial Arts and learned a lot.

Jiu-Jitsu > the soft Art

Today evening from 7 pm onwards there will be gradings at Ichinen Bridport Jiu-Jitsu. Good luck to all!

Adult Jiu-Jitsu starts at 7.00 pm Thursdays!

My punctuality shows me that your time is as valuable as my own.

Only two places left for Eye Yoga seminar!

On Sunday the 19th of January there will be a seminar at
Ichinen Bridport. 
Title: Your eyes - Eye Yoga
Location: 86 North Allington, Bridport
Time: 10 - 12 am
More Info and booking your place: 01308-459781
Costs: Pound 15,oo pp