Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Morning
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION: 10.00am
Prof. Jaimie Lee-Barron, President of the IMAS
"Accredited Prior Experience and Learning (APEL) in the Martial Arts and
Sciences"
This paper will explore the APEL system in use in many of today’s educational
establishments and explore how it can be applied to the martial arts. It will demonstrate
how applying this process can help us in identifying the nature and depth of a student’s
transferable skills and abilities, and how these might be efficiently integrated into our
own particular martial art systems. Thus enabling us to fairly assess and evaluate
students from other styles and systems into our clubs by accepting their past learning
and achievements, so not forcing or expecting them to learn the same material all over
again.
It will show how APEL should be adopted as good practice and how it can prove beneficial
from the perspectives of both the instructors and students.
Reverend Toby Humphry MA FIMAS
"The social and physiological benefits of martial arts training in the police
service"
This paper will explore the origins of modern Police training from ancient systems used
by the guardians of older civilisations and show how the needs and requirements of
modern day officers differ today from those of centuries ago. It will also demonstrate the
positive effects martial arts training can have upon young Officers in modern society. It
will show how regular training can increase not only the physical health and fitness of
student officers, but also help in enhancing their levels of confidence, self esteem,
discipline, and vital abilities in interpersonal skills, team-working and conflict resolution.
"The martial science of boxing and its contribution to military close combat"
This paper will examine the more obscure aspects of Boxing as a martial science. It will
illustrate that the martial history, tradition and virtue of boxing is an undeniable fact,
even if one that is rarely recognised or acknowledged. It will concentrate upon the
military applications rather than the modern sporting aspects, demonstrating how it has
been an integral part of the training of a warrior since ancient times.
It will explore how it was used to develop “fighting spirit” and" how it has continued in
contributing to the origins and development of modern military close-combat techniques
in much the same way as some of the oriental martial arts.
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
Afternoon
"The origins and development of the Daito Ryu Bu Jutsu"
This paper will trace the beginnings of what have come to be known as the “Aiki Bu” art,
examining its origins as a closely guarded “military secret” of the Minamoto, through the
bloody testing-ground of the “Sengoku Jidai” (warring-states period) and the terrible
costs of the Gempei war, which saw the ascension of the powerful and warlike Takeda
family. It will show how this art continued to develop throughout the Shugunate period
and into the Meiji restoration. It will show how one of the last great warriors, Minamoto
Sokaku Takeda, witnessed the futile Satsuma rebellion and, with it, the twilight of the
Samurai, and managed to bring this deceptively beautiful martial arts into the “modern”
world.
Every single day, martial arts instructors across the country are unknowingly putting
themselves at risk of prosecution through pure ignorance. This paper has been written in
order to help raise awareness regarding the urgent need for instructors to undergo
relevant training in the protection of children and vulnerable adults. It will also stress the
importance of having correct policy in place for martial arts clubs and associations.
It will outline the basic legal requirements for safe-guarding these groups, providing the
information needed to implement these in the correct manner and, by so doing,
protecting all parties involved, martial arts instructors included.
"The martial arts and sciences as a tool for modifying attitudes and behaviours
in the classroom"
PRESENTATIONS
CONCLUSION
ENDS: 16.00
PLEASE NOTE: There will be a short faculty meeting taking place post
conference.
IMAS would like to express the sincerest gratitude to Shaun Roberts BSc
MIMAS and Nomad Training, who helped make this event possible.