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Chief Instructor
The chief instructor at Budokai South is Sensei Barry. Sensei Barry has trained under several prominent instructors including, Sensei Dan Ustie, Russ St Hilaire, and Donn Schucker as well as many other instructors in various arts from his travels to different training camps and seminars over the years. Sensei Barry started his training in the mid 1980s in Kempo Karate. Even after completing some advanced training, he needed to defend himself against an attack, and learned quickly he was not properly trained to handle self-defense, as most of the Karate training was purely sport and kata, and not very street effective. After healing from his injuries, he visited all of the martial arts schools in the surrounding areas, finding only one school that taught realistic self-defense techniques. The school was Aiki Budokai Aiki Jujitsu in Danbury, CT. Sensei Barry has been learning and teaching Jujitsu and Aiki Jujitsu ever since. Over his 20 year martial arts career, Sensei Barry has studied many Jujitsu systems, such as Zen Budo Ryu, Danzan Ryu, Daito Ryu, Gracie Jujitsu, and Judo. In addition he has seriously studied Okinawa te Karate. He also has taught many seminars, including women’s self-defense, law enforcement arresting and restraining, ground fighting, and different specific Jujitsu technique seminars. Throughout his career, everything he has learned, evaluated, practiced, and taught has been for the sole purpose of self-defense. Techniques that were not effective in real combat were discarded and replaced with techniques of high, realistic combat value. Barry Sensei holds the following ranks at the time of this writing. Rokudan
(Sixth Degree)
Minami Budo Ryu Aiki Jujitsu
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