Genbukan Ireland Shihan Martin O'Raghaillaigh

Genbukan Shihan Martin O'Raghaillaigh is a personal student of Grandmaster Shoto Tanemura for over 30 years. He has travelled to Japan every year and sometimes twice a year to train in these most exquisite traditional Martial Arts. 

 The martial wind is a feeling and with it a knowledge that transcends the physical and becomes part of you. The early days in the old Honbu Japan was tough with one thousand basics morning and evening but amid the aches and bruises, constantly getting up off the floor there was a graceful placing of knowledge that only a true Grandmaster can give. This knowledge is Genbukan Ninpo Bugei 

In March 2024 Shihan Martin O'Raghaillaigh was awarded the Japanese name Kenshin by his teacher. It means 'sword heart, sword spirit'.

The power of a sword is in its cut and ultimately in one who wields it well, but Its strength, when realised, is not one of warfare it is of the forging of a more disciplined mind.

Shihan Martin O’Raghaillaigh Kenshin