Umm, the most recent post on your website refers to the honden as 'Otake-ha'... this is not wholly appropriate.
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Umm, the most recent post on your website refers to the honden as 'Otake-ha'... this is not wholly appropriate.
Be well,
Jigme
Once you get past the overt dissonance (which can be painful to those of us trained in the western musical tradition) they can be rather... tolerable...ish (though as a friend who has been...
Things may be a bit slow on the new posts front, but there is tons of material to be had!
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Jigme
Interesting (/Joe Yang)
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It was some (ninjitsu if memory serves) site that spoke about training in, or maybe preparing to fight in, the'swampest places'... dang, that was rather a long time ago.
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While not true, I can't help but find the thought of a spindly 17 year-old sandan in Go having to register rather pleasing in a perverse way...:laugh:
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In this case, it would be implied (meant to suggest) as opposed to inferred (drew from an implication).
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Folks who buy those... er... garments also purchase anime DVDs. Could be that something like those appear in manga and folks just don't know the difference.:cry:
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It sounds like chigiriki from at least one ha of Kiraku-ryu (the school that I have seen seems to favor a kusari that is 1.5x longer than the jo/habu, which is itself sized to the zyphoid process of...
Different regional/dialectical pronounciations of the same name (White Eyebrow), so yes, same from the Shaw Brothers' movies.
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Jigme
At least four other times,
this one is the longest . HTH.
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Jigme
This assumes that kata is merely a performance of rote drills. While that must certainly be the case at the beginning, it is the prerogative (and duty, to some extent) of the uchidachi to not allow...
Not so much with the connection based on that clip.
Floating or did you mean uke:(?
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Jigme
Did you mean to put it that way? Seeding (or ceding) sokedokey-ness to the next generation :laugh:?
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Jigme
Wow- life has been busy lately, so I haven't been checking E-budo that frequently- the news hits hard.
Though we never met in person, Mark was unfailingly generous via E-mail and PM... we have...
There is a thread in the Lounge... you can be legally recognized as a 10th dan in googleryu :D
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Jigme
If you (and your friends) don't have background in sword arts, 'sparring' is a bad idea for at least a couple of reasons:
The safety factor (doing it with bokuto is kinda dumb).
If you do have...
The is footage available of folks from the Wakayama dojo (under Tomoyosei [sp?] sensei) doing kata. There are marked differences between them and nearly everyone else in Uechiryu... some folks have...
Those two videos are... certainly... and 'Choson Ninja'... wow, look at the time...
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Jigme
Should I take it that this is meant for me? Ah well, it would appear that your queries are not genuine (your cup is full, neh?)- no need to go further.
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Jigme
It would appear that you have invested some energy (and research?) into this topic, and don't wish to be swayed from your held beliefs. If you are soliciting geniune reaction, the fact that there is...
Many folks here have a fairly broad range of experience and could not only tell you what 'branch' of the tree, but who the specific instructor of the demonstrator was... the 'aiki' world isn't so...
FWIW- Much of what folks put across as legitimate external expressions of 'qi' are works... of course, there are some extraordinary individuals out there, but be wary of hokum salespeople on your...
from the front row and he is something else.
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Jigme
One of the early (then called) Aiki News Aiki Friendship Festivals featured Inoue Sensei. IIRC, there is also some interview footage of him floating about...
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Jigme