Tanren

The original founder of Masaki-ryu Nakajima-ha, Masaki Taro Dayu trained diligently in the martial arts from early
childhood, and at the age of twelve moved an approximately 100kg stone in his garden despite being ill at the time.
With training, it is said he was able to swing an approximately 7.5kg axe 800 times each morning without his
complexion changing. Masaki-sensei engaged in a great amount of conditioning and even conceived and implemented
a range of conditioning methods and training devices.

Masaki-ryu Nakajima-ha includes fundamental techniques and conditioning methods that can also be trained alone,
and we place importance on conditioning and hard-wiring the body for training and combat. Repeated correct practice
every day familiarizes, conditions and strengthens the body, and allows our school’s techniques to naturally permeate.
To this end, students only focused on practicing our fundamental techniques alone, and were not allowed to train
with their senior students for the first year in the old days, although today we teach all students these individual
conditioning techniques/methods along with paired partner training (ura iai).

It’s no overstatement then to say that the more a person likes to copy a correct model and repeatedly correctly
train the movements, the more they will develop.

正木流中島派の元祖・正木太郎太夫は幼少の頃より武術の稽古を怠らず、12歳のとき、病気中にもかかわらず8500斤
（約百キロ）の庭石を動かし、長じると、70斤2貫目(約7.5kg) 以上の鉞を毎朝800回振っても顔色を変えなかったといわれています。

正木先生は鍛錬を重ね様々な鍛錬や相対練習で使われる道具まで考案して実践しました。

当流では基本技や様々な一人稽古でもできる鍛錬方法が伝わっており、体作りとして重要視しています。

毎日正しく繰り返すことにより体を慣らし、丈夫なものにして、当流の技が自然と染み込むようになります。

このため、昔は入門して最初の1年は先輩との稽古が許さず、ひたすら単独練習をさせられて体作りに励んだものですが、
現在はこの単独練習と合わせて相手と組んで行う裏居合の稽古もできるように指導しています。

正しい見本を真似して一人稽古を絶えず正しく繰り返すことが好きな人ほど上達するといっても過言ではないでしょう。