i'm a former student of aikido (bad knees), not judo, but i can tell you that the term tokui includes the meaning "specialty" or "strong point". therefore, tokui waza is essentially the kind of...
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i'm a former student of aikido (bad knees), not judo, but i can tell you that the term tokui includes the meaning "specialty" or "strong point". therefore, tokui waza is essentially the kind of...
my experience, limited though it may be, with Japanese martial arts, tea, and Zen, suggests that Earl's (much earlier) posts about enjoying each human activity in their "self-so-ness", to borrow a...
Originally posted by Chrono
How do you pronounce Zatoichi? Is it Za-toi-chi or Za-to-ichi?
in fact, there isn't much difference between your two syllabic divisions, since Japanese doesn't have...
Originally posted by Earl Hartman
Jeff:
Are jo techniques from other schools (e.g. Muhi Muteki Ryu) included in the seiteigata, or when the document says "non ryuha specific" are they just...
as promised, i'll give you the quick and messy translation of the document that i have, but sadly it doesn't offer any earth-shattering insights.
according to this, "jodo" (here meaning all the...
i have some information from an official print source tucked away somewhere that describes in brief the history of the Seiteigata (as well as the kihon dousa). i don't recall offhand how much detail...
when looking at their catalogue from a few years back, you'd notice that they offer two constructions (apart from their women's hakama): the difference is in the front panel length. according to...
although i don't recall being told specifically every time we worked on suwari-waza, i do remember several times when nage was reminded to start from seiza. there was one particularly painful...
Originally posted by Tripitaka of AA
Going further into this apparent black hole.... how did they shave it? Are there ancient relics? Highly decorated and prized artifacts that were used in the...
Russ Ebert and i were kicking this one around in another thread, where i joked that it might simply have been a pre-emptive strike against inevitable male pattern baldness!!! i think Russ might have...
Moderator: please remove this double post
Originally posted by PwarYuex
Recently, a Japanese prisoner was released from NKorea- another sign that the Stalinist country is willing to re-enter...
Originally posted by PwarYuex
Recently, a Japanese prisoner was released from NKorea- another sign that the Stalinist country is willing to re-enter civilisation?
diplomatic relations with the...
Originally posted by Jody Holeton
Hey Jeff, how did you get into North Korea? I'm dying to go!
well, your biggest problem might be your citizenship; as far as i know, the DPRK still bars...
Jody,
re: the Triad and Gangsta comments ...
there's a snowball's chance in hell that the tattoos have anything to do with a criminal organization. the political system in the DPRK would never...
i'm more conservative than most when i judge poor use of language (my all-lower-case typing excepted, of course), and i gotta big-!!! bag of pet peeves taken from the "creative English" of...
Originally posted by Liam Cognet
He said ... the jo side of Shinto Muso Ryu kata can be replaced with a boken thus converting all jo kata into kenjutsu kata. Has anyone had any experience with...
i have it on good authority that it may not be so easy to land a university teaching job in Japan with only an undergraduate degree, your CELTA certificate notwithstanding. i've actually returned to...
David,
how much text do you need translated? do you anticipate needing someone to do ongoing translation work? what kind of text(s) do you need translated? there are quite a few members including...
Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibee) is a real gem. it's a study in contrasts to compare it to Last Samurai (a.k.a. "Dances With Samurai"), i think largely because Hollywood and Japanese cinema are...
Kevin,
i have given gifts to teachers of mine after i began training with them, and in some cases, after i'd stopped training because i'd moved to a different geographic location. as Michael says,...
i agree that downplaying the connection between noun, adjective, and verb is kind of silly. however, my point is that amai, the adjective, does have a wide range of possible meanings dependent on...
Cody,
there is a world of difference between amae and amai, even though the ideograph is the same. amae is the nominal form of amaeru ("to be overly dependent on"); the related transitive verb is...
Brian,
here are a couple of shots from the hip. i'll double-check them later when i get home.
amae suggests the sort of dependency shown by a child towards his/her mother; it could also...
Russ,
oh, absolutely, i agree that nicer-lookin' stuff would have been owned by bushi who were wealthy enough and living in an age peaceful enough to afford finery. i also agree with your point...
gentlemen, i never wrote that yakuza and ultranationalists were one and the same thing. the only claim i made is that drivers (not the entire membership of ultranationalist organizations) of the...