Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu is a highly effective martial art that focuses on natural body leverage and distancing over strength and speed. The art is comprised of 9 traditional Japanese martial arts that each have a different focus in combat. Striking, grappling, weapons, or stealth, each art specializes in a different form of combat to create a complete art where the sum is greater than its parts. Rather than training for competition our arts primary goal is well rounded training for real life conflict while carrying on traditions rooted hundreds of years in the past to the next generation. Some of the benefits to our training include, self defense, discipline, confidence, health, fitness, flexibility, stamina, awareness, and mental focus. If you can move your body, you can do this art regardless of gender, age, weight or size.

The Saint Louis Bujinkan Dojo has been St. Louis’s premier training facility since 2005 for the arts of Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu. As a center for learning the traditional martial arts of Japan we are fully licensed and certified through the Bujinkan Shidoshi-kai (instructors guild) based in Noda-shi, Japan. Our head instructor Shidoshi Jason Kratz has been training in the art since 1998 and received his 5th Dan and full teaching certification in 2008 under Soke Masaaki Hatsumi. Under his guidance our dojo has trained hundreds of students to improve their lives and the community through the martial arts.

Martial arts training can be dangerous. In keeping safety a top priority our training is limited to adults ages 18 and older who can exercise patience, self-control and dedication. No one with a criminal record or mental health issues will be allowed to join. The training is taught in a friendly, non-competitive atmosphere. We accept new students year-round and are committed to providing the highest quality and most accurate representation of the training that can be found in Japan.