Bushido C.R.T
Combat Reality Training.
The Bushido CRT grading is the black belt grading were prospective black belts are tested in the three elements of Bukido Kai, Mind, Body and Spirit. The Bushido CRT training camp is held over the long weekend in October. Bushido CRT participants are told to be ready for anything, react and overcome whatever is thrown at them during the course of the CRT weekend.
Bushido CRT is not for the faint hearted. Bushido CRT is designed to test the elite core of those who train with Bukido Kai. Bushido CRT is not only a grading test but also a test of fitness, character and determination.
Bushido CRT is run along disciplined military lines and is the hardest test that you will find outside the military or para-military. This page contains a description of a typical Bushido CRT camp and photographs of Bushido CRT camps. A Bushido CRT camp has been run each year since 2002.
As you read this page you may wonder WHY would anyone want to put themselves through this?
For each person the answer will be different but on the whole it is the challenge. Most people in their daily lives do not face a challenge that will test them to the limit physically, mentally and emotionally, Bushido CRT will do this. At the completion of a Bushido all those who attend are stronger in many ways and have an enormous sense of achievement.
A typical timetable for a Bushido CRT training camp is:
Friday:
Training: 7pm to 2am.
Saturday: Training 5am to 2am.
Sunday: Training 5am to midnight.
Monday: Training 6am to 4pm.
All CRT participants carry the following equipment at all times, a back pack containing all their training equipment & sparring equipment, weapons training equipment, 1 strike shield, water and anything else they would need for hard physical exercise.
During the course of the camp participants train on average 56 hours from Friday night to Monday afternoon (Including meal breaks). There are limited facilities, (no showers), they sleep in tents and prepare their own food. On the Saturday training from 8am to 4pm is conducted at the Colo river, in addition to their training equipment participants carry food and water supplies for the day.
Below setting up camp 7pm Friday evening.
Below: 10pm Training through the night, Friday.
(11pm Practicing kicking technique, Weight training using 2 litre
bottles filled with water)
Below: Just after midnight, 500 push ups, 500 Ab crunches, 500 dips.
Below: 1am Technique and drill training until the early hours of Saturday morning.
Below 1.30am more hard physical training
Below, It's 2am and we just want to go to bed
Below Saturday morning, just after sunrise warming up, then off to the Colo River
Below: Water training 6am Saturday Morning in the Colo River.
Below: Team work is a major component of CRT.
Below: After a long day at the river it's back to training after dinner, 1000 groin kicks or right 5000 for someone grading for 2nd Dan.
Below Day 3: Sunday
Below Day 4: Monday
Below 30 minutes of full power bag striking with hammer fists
The physical training never stops
Weapons training
Below: Participants of Bushido
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Below: click on any of the photo for a larger version.
Hard physical training in conducted regardless of adverse weather conditions.
Weapons training, bag work and technique work are all a part of CRT.
CRT consists of hard physical training.
