AKBAN

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AKBAN (光番) is an international

The school was founded in 1986 in Jerusalem by Yossi Sheriff, senior instructor of Doron Navon, the first non Japanese Shihan in Bujinkan Ninjutsu school. Navon started teaching as a Bujinkan Shidoshi in a rural area at 1977. In 1992, in conjunction with Bujinkan Israel, the school wrote and directed the first state sanctioned Ninjutsu instructor's course.^[3][4] In 1995 the AKBAN School parted ways from Bujinkan Israel while maintaining presence in Hatsumi's Bujinkan events.

Functions

The AKBAN Institute offers classes for those who want to master Martial arts. The program is authorized as a non-competitive martial arts school by the Israeli ministry of Science Culture and Sports.^[5] The AKBAN School also issues ranks. The relatively long time span for belt exams stems from the large syllabus learnt. In AKBAN, there are seven distinct grades that structure the progression of skills and responsibilities. The first five levels focus on skill acquisition, culminating in the black belt level, which is the final stage requiring a formal exam. The sixth level is characterized by consistent practice in a dojo, emphasizing the importance of ongoing training and dedication. The seventh and highest level represents a deeper commitment and responsibility towards the AKBAN community, typically involving roles such as participation in the AKBAN think tank or serving as an instructor.

AKBAN-wiki encyclopedia

General background

The AKBAN documentation project is a non commercial, creative commons, effort to collect, create and freely spread knowledge about martial arts and related fitness programs.^[6] Its main features reside in the main website of the school. The chief feature of the Akban project is a community online encyclopedia. The main lines explored in the encyclopedia are martial arts, emotion regulation and fitness.

Description of the AKBAN-wiki

The AKBAN-wiki has several thousands of articles and videos. It started in 1998 when two AKBAN veterans started organizing the vast Koryu syllabus into a computerized database. The methodical backbone of this project was a system for allocating different stages of learning in martial fields called The Methodical Pyramid. ^[7] Many fields have benefited from the sharing and distribution of safe knowledge and training methods. The huge amount of material practiced in the necessitated means to organize and validate the techniques used. In 2005, the work on the database shifted toward a mash-up of user generated media. The AKBAN project organized the materials in a semantic web in a Wikimedia platform. This was achieved by installing a Semantic wiki and starting to apply interrelations between the techniques of same and different martial arts. The focus of work now has moved toward using a self aligned [Large language model|LLM] as a better way to gather insights and teaching methods.

International seminars and events

The AKBAN School organizes international seminars for veteran students. These seminars expand the Bujinkan syllabus practiced in the dojo and bring to Israel internationally acclaimed martial arts teachers in various disciplines. Notable teachers in AKBAN seminars are

Notes

External links

• The website of the AKBAN School.
• The AKBAN wiki