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Akban
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Location
Tel aviv, Template:FlagiconIsrael
Information
Enrollment	Approximately 700
Faculty	14 instructors
Average class size	10-20
Type	martial arts school
Language	English, Hebrew, Arabic
Nickname	Ha' Irgun
Established	1986
Homepage	http://www.akban.org

Akban is an Israeli educational Hybrid martial arts school. The school's name in Hebrew is an acronym for the Hebrew initials of "Irgun Kvuzot Budo ninjutsu". It is now used out of the acronymial context as a two syllable name. The Akban school was founded in Israel in 1986 as a martial art school. Akban's learning curriculum has diversified from Budo ninjutsu into MMA, Historical European martial arts, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu systems but it is still defines itself as a Seishin Teki Kyoko and koryu based. It is informally abberviated by it's students as simply Irgun or The Organization, and trains students in Martial arts, Meditation, Fitness and outdoor skills^[1]. Akban veterans teach in 12 dojos in Israel, and instruct approximately 700 undergraduates and veteran students. It is defines itself as the martial arts institution demanding the longest time to apply for a black belt exam (12 to 13 years) in Israel.^[2]

History

The school was started in 1986 in Jerusalem by a senior instructor that had shidoshi permit by Doron Navon, the first non Japanese Shihan in Bujinkan Ninjutsu school.

Shihan Navon started instructingJudo and Ninjutsu as a Bujinkan Shidoshi at a village dojo near Tel Aviv at the year of 1977. After teaching and authorizing several instructors Doron stopped teaching at the beggining of the 90's. At 1992, in conjunction with Bujinkan Israel the school wrote and directed the first state sanctioned Ninjutsu/Budo Taijutsu instructor's course ^{[3] [4]} In 1995 the Akban School departed 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. The modernized Kyu system is used and the minimum time in dojo before a black belt exam is 12-14 years. Today, Akban veteran instructors teach in fifteen main dojos (Main, School, International, Women's, Boys), plus a 'veteran' dojo for practitioners who have been training more then 20 years and special technique study uses.

Akban-wiki, The Akban project

General background

The Akban 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 and fitness.

Description of the Akban-wiki

The Akban-wiki has thousands of self produced articles and videos. It started in 1998 when two Akban veterans started organizing the vast X-kan syllabus learnt in Akban 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 on a wikimedia platform. The work has culturally profited from the addition of Kaltura, an online application that allows wiki-like video editing and revisions by the wiki users. The Akban project organizes visual materials in a semantic web. This is achieved by installing a Semantic wiki and starting to apply interrelations between the techniques of same and different martial arts. The videos and articles are tagged with categories and the categories hierarchically nestle inside meta categories using a logical tree. The semantic functions allow the Akban-wiki skilled user to give each article and video attributes and describe the relations between them.

Grade Syllabus

All students study and are tested on an augmented Bujinkan syllabus ^[8] and martial arts theory in addition to Judo, BJJ, Muay Thai and weapon katas from Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū.

International seminars and events

The Akban School organizes international seminars for students of Akban veteran instructors. These seminars expand the Bujinkan syllabus practiced in the dojo and bring to Israel internationally acclaimed martial arts teachers. Notable teachers in Akban seminars are Renzo Gracie^[9], De la Riva ^[10], Alexander Zhelezniak [1] ^[11]and Guro Hernan Cortes [2] ^[12]. Akban veterans and able students are involved in extreme fitness events where sparring is practiced for extended periods of time^[13].

Notes

External links

• The website of the Akban School.
• The Akban Martial arts and fitness wiki
• A short video of the NHK Japanese television about Akban