Education & Expertise

I was born under the Chinese astrological sign of the Wood Dragon. I am first of all a French expert in martial arts. In 1972, following the media legend of Bruce Lee like many children and adolescents of my generation in the Marseille region, I began to be interested in training in martial arts such as Judo, Karate, Aikido, Aido and Kung Fu. Then, at 20 in 1984-1985, I rehearsed the French military combat method during my Commando military service in Lyon (France). After that, I did advanced training in Karate, Full Contact, Boxing, Muay Thai and Kick Boxing. In 1987, while continuing the practice of Shotokan Karate, I started Ninjutsu (the art of Ninja) in Paris with Sylvain Guintard and Katori Shinto-Ryu style Iaido with Michel Coquet. Then, in 1988/89 I spent an academic year in Japan, becoming a direct student of Dr. Hatsumi Masaaki and his Shihan students who introduced me to real ninjutsu! I was one of the rare first French students of Bujinkan France to have gone to Japan alone to follow the direct teachings of Master Hatsumi. After one year of complete master class training (1988/89), in November 1989, I opened my first ninjutsu club in Nice and began my teaching career. Then, I travel regularly to Japan for 25 years several months a year to improve my skills in Ninjutsu with master Hatsumi and his Shihan and I take the opportunity to practice other Japanese martial arts. At the same time, I study Japanese language and culture. I also experiment with an ethnological approach in isolated mountainous regions of Japan various esoteric practices and asceticisms of Buddhism, Shintoism and Shugendo linked to the history of esoteric Ninjutsu to better understand their meaning. So I meet masters, shamans and hermits, Buddhist or Shinto monks who are learning and explaining their approaches to me. In the 1990s, it was still possible to have these kinds of mystical encounters. I have visited almost all of Japan's sacred sites and historic Ninjutsu places. I quickly deduce that modern Ninjutsu, like most other martial arts, has little or nothing in common with all this folklore. Any modernization implies a rationalization of beliefs and religions and it is so much better that true science without any prejudice invests in these areas to raise awareness and better consciousness. It is in this perspective that I place myself as a researcher of truth even if I am aware that we rarely achieve it.

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Today, I found the Nindo concept as a method and technique of modern martial arts based on my deep experiences as a practitioner, teacher, and researcher of body-mind techniques in martial arts especially in the art of the Ninja. I was taught and given lectures on martial arts as the subject of research and teaching in diverse universities around the world (France, Europe, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). I am the author of several research papers in scientific peers’ reviews. My doctoral thesis book on the evolution of Japanese Ninjutsu as an ancient Chinese martial art (University of Nice, France) was published in 2011 in France. At the start of the development of Nindo in the year 2000 in France, I founded first my style of Ninjutsu called Nindo-kan in 2005, then refinement my knowledge during my doctoral thesis research book on the evolution of Ninjutsu from 2006 to 2011. Finally, the official launch was in 2024 in Hong Kong with my private school called "Universal Nindo Institute Ltd". Thus, I propose to coach you in my courses with my anthropological vision of the Nindo "tree" which finds its roots and scientific trunk in the Ninpo which expressed itself and still expresses itself in the artistic and technical richness of the "branches, flowers" or styles of Ninjutsu. From ancient China through medieval Japan then through the contemporary West including France and finally returning to China via Hong Kong in our era of postmodernity, it is an entire spiritual and martial or mystical and scientific tradition that is transmitted secretly through hermeticism. Note that although Nindo is universal as a substantial form and not limited by cultural names, before arriving in modern France and Western countries, the ninja art came from modern Japan and formed during medieval history well known as Ninjutsu or Genjutsu. It therefore comes fundamentally from the esoteric and military knowledge of ancient China. According to ancient Chinese and Japanese texts, Nindo (although not named) is revered as the path of perseverance created by the unity of the will energy of the sword and the compassion energy of the heart to become a mysterious human being well known in history as the Ninja or Shinobi (the spy).

As a teacher of modern Nindo, I agree to reunify my part of darkness (yin) and luminosity (yang) to become ONE and express all my primordial divine essence. This is the goal of the true Ninja of the 21st century that I am aiming for. It breaks with the medieval and modern Ninja spy and reconnects with the Ninja as a new persevering or resilient human. In our Aquarian Age, the new Ninja or Nindoka will have to be victorious through the forces of spirit over our dark part. This new ability to channel the spirit into the body in every movement thought and word exists within each of us as the basic cosmic energy to transform us. Learning to work with this puts us firmly on the path to self-awareness and personal growth. Today, you will discover the spirit of combat through body techniques with accessory weapons (stick, chain, rope, etc.), and in addition, you will be trained in anthropological techniques of body perception to strengthen your mastery in situ. I will guide you to learn to use body-mind skills harmoniously according to your goal of well-being or self-confidence in managing the training fight whatever your level and potential.

As aforementioned, I propose a wide range of martial arts courses : 
- Nindo as a modern form of martial art ninjutsu for self-defence, sport, art education, or health purposes.

- Nindo as holistic coaching method for energy potential development purposes.
- Other Chinese internal martial arts and body techniques I learnt such as Taijiquan for wellbeing (style Zheng Man Qing), and Qi-Gong.