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Gary, just to be clear, the ground-work is not a part of our curiculum, but is rather a supplemental training that Budd, myself, and a few others engage in on occasion.

We have not yet met,...

Jason, I teach the Wednesday night classes at Itten, and during our open mats we work out fairly hard. For what it is worth, at the beginning, practice is going to be soft, but as you get more...

This will probly only be funny to those of you from Central PA, but what the heck.

Do you know how copper wire was invented?

Somebody gave a penny to two Mennonites.

I picked that up from my...

I'm not a photographer, nor do I play one on T.V., but I have been told that the best way to capture action is by shooting UP at it, e.g. taking your photos whilst lying on the mat, looking up at the...

The PVC pipe and foam weapons are really good for training. We have made several fukuro shinai, and have even made a "fukuro naginata" that is tons of fun.

One thing I have noticed is that when...

Cleary's Japanese Art of War is really good. It does tend to get a little deep at times, and is certainly not a casual read, but I strongly recomend it. The work give a lot of insight into the...

Mark,

We us an obi for junior students, rolling it out a little more after the entire class has gone over, and repeating the process till we reach they're limits(and a little beyond of course :)...

I'm not an instructor, just a senior student, but I often run one of our dojo's warm up "games". It's a great warmup as well as a learning tool.

All the students on the dojo circle up. A senior...