“Gyokko Ryū – Legacy and Techniques”

Ishizuka sensei is unique among the disciples of Sōke Hatsumi Masaaki, founder of the Bujinkan. He was there from the beginning in the 1960s as part of a very small group during the roughest years of training under Hatsumi sensei, and he was one of the lucky few to meet the legendary grandmaster Takamatsu Toshitsugu – an event that etched itself into his memory for good and changed his life. Ishizuka sensei has menkyo kaiden in all nine schools of the Bujinkan – an incomparable feat – and inherited the title of Sōke in Gyokko Ryū, the school from which most of the others have sprung from.