Mission

American Budokai International's mission is to maintain the traditional standards of the martial arts and provide training of the highest caliber to affiliate instructors and practitioners globally.

• To teach the arts to anyone regardless of age, sex, race, color, religion, beliefs or nationality who is willing to learn and have no motives to defame and/or use the arts for unethical and/or illegal purposes.
  
  To spread the teachings of the arts via the most efficient and economic means, thereby reaching as many willing students as possible.

• To present the martial arts in all aspects. i.e., as a means for self-defense, sport, physical training, philosophy, entertainment, performance, science, health, healing, discipline, meditation, mental development, confidence building, sportsmanship, art, history, culture, etc.

• To cultivate the martial arts as a vehicle for developing friendships, teamwork, communications and cooperation, and not as a means for dominance, suppression, control or undue influence over others. We discourage egotism and aggressive attitudes.
• To present the arts in its most realistic form refraining from trickery, myths, deceptions, and supernatural claims.

• To produce students, instructors and organizations that appreciate and understand the martial arts and who practice and perform to the best of their abilities, while maintaining traditional standards.

• To develop successors through proper teaching, who will carry on the responsibility of continuing and expanding the missions, principles and most important of all, the philosophy and ethics of the arts.

• To continue the betterment of the martial arts taught at the School across the globe via the processes of actual practices and applications of the teachings leading to re-evaluation, discovery, and understanding of the arts.