Question on a group at Purdue Univ.

[fred_c]

Hiya all. Been lurking around the boards for a short while, mainly just reading the posts and whatnot. Just a guy that's been dearly wanting to learn a sword art (the names, specifics of styles, all that escape me at the time). Anyways, I'm going to be attending Purdue Univ. next year and saw a group there called "Aiki Jujutsu", with its website

http://expert.ics.purdue.edu/~jujutsu/

I was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about this group; if it's legitimate, what styles of what are actively practiced there, personal opinions about it, etc. Thanks for your time, and once again, a good ol' hello to everyone out there :-)

-Frederick Chu [in case I didn't put it in the signature]

[IZA]

Question: why is the tachi mounted to his right side? is he left handed? :)

[Walker]

Who knows what the hell they are doing based on that web site. To think this is at a university and that’s the best they can come up with. PhD = BFD

Grade - F
Recommendation: remedial communication

[Charlie Kondek]

You may get more info on this at the aiki-jutsu forum here at e-budo. Ask if anyone's heard of these folks.

[Ron Tisdale]

uhg. That last picture is priceless.

Notice that they don't mention anything about who the instructor learned from. I'd give this a pass if I were you.

Ron

[Don Cunningham]

Sounds like a spinoff from the Juko-Kai group.

[fred_c]

Thank you very much, everyone. Seems that this place is far from reputable. I guess I will be tossing the idea of attending this club out the window.
On a lighter note, does anyone know of an iaido dojo that is open to the general public, hopefully near West Lafayette, Indiana? I don't know if the hoki ryu iaido club at Indiana Univ. is open to the public.
Thank you all once again.

-Fred Chu.

[Walker]

Fred, by all means stop by and check them out. If nothing else it could add some levity to your day. You could tell them that we all think their web site sucks. That should win you some friends.

Then come back and let us know all the details ;)

[fred_c]

Heh heh, I suppose I will stop by to try that out :-)

[Charlie Kondek]

Fred, there's a kendo club at Purdue. I'm sure they would have some iaido knowledge (knowledge of who teaches it if they don't practice it themselves).

[gendzwil]

Contact the Purdue Kendo Club, they should know if anything's about. See http://www.kendo-usa.org/statedojolist.htm#IN

[DCPan]

http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~kendo/

[Charles Mahan]

Originally posted by IZA
Question: why is the tachi mounted to his right side? is he left handed? :)

This one looks pretty obvious. If you notice there are two images, one on the left one on the right. The image on the right is a mirror image of the one on the left. So obviously the webmaster took the original image, the one on the right and flipped it so that he'd have to images of samurai staring at each other from opposite sides of the page. Unforunately this left the image on the left wearing his tachi on the wrong side.

I'm by no means coming to the defense of this group. Just answering the particular question above.

[Soulend]

Tanto, Japanese knives, are taught singly or in pairs.

[IZA]

I see. Thank you.
as for tanto knife taught singly and pairs? two tanto when fighting, like Musashi? But Musashi used two swords not knife neh!