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About Our Instructor
Jessy James Amblo of the Bujinkan Kongoshin Dojo is the
scion of many generations whose progenitors arrived in the
New World as Royal Archers nearly 400 years ago with Samuel
de Champlain.
Jessy's journey to his current awareness of the meaning of
Bushido - the evolution of the term from "one who serves" to
"the way of the warrior" has been no less varied than his
family's journey through the history of America. As a youth,
exploring martial arts books in an Oriental paraphernalia
store, he was handed a copy of Soke's History and Tradition
and knew immediately that that was his calling.
The next two decades were a journey to authenticity.
Raising a daughter and training with a variety of
genuine and not-so-genuine teachers all combined to help him
learn and understand his priorities. Realizing, after
winning two full-contact international mixed martial arts
tournaments, that his task was not to celebrate the ego but
to train until it receded into nothingness helped him to
begin to understand that the purpose of Bushido is beauty,
true strength and insightful awareness and the ability to
help others. A decade of training without any teacher, he
now realizes, was not only a test of will but an invaluable
training tool - a window into his soul that he could not
have found in any other way.
His promotion to 10th dan was vetted by some of the highest
ranking most respected Shihan in the Bujinkan and he has
trained repeatedly with Soke himself.
All of these experiences have combined to underscore a
central, incontrovertible and essential theme: If he can
think it he can do it and if he wants to do it he will
discipline his mind to create what has to be done. It is
this awareness, insight, discipline and the associated
skills that are the foundation of the Bujinkan Kongoshin
Dojo.
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