Kit,
Agreed, but as we both seem to realize in PMs and here, the really hard thing is how to solve the situation in which training is not relevent? Good koryu training may hint at a way for modern...
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Kit,
Agreed, but as we both seem to realize in PMs and here, the really hard thing is how to solve the situation in which training is not relevent? Good koryu training may hint at a way for modern...
Geez, Kit, next thing you know cops are going to be laden down with standard issue kogusoku, jutte and rope (for hojojutsu), along with their sidearms and tasers!!!
...Interesting article. At...
Kit,
Another example of dangerous "gaming": When I was doing karate, I'd see point tournaments where some folk would deliberately stand against their opponent sidewards crouching, turning their...
Kit,
I think we have a spectrum of possibilities for a range of different people, to cover what they seek in a martial or self-defense system. Not all people are capable of working to top...
Kit,
...What you said.
I continuously stress to my students that in kata-based training, they have to develop first proper body movement, i.e., precision, or at least come close to the proper...
Benny Hill learned some judo ukemi!!! Wow. The guy is an unsung legend!
Among his many philanthropic endeavors, Elvis also helped complete the Arizona Memorial here in Hawaii, to memorialize and...
Yeah, February. That's a hard time here. It rains a bit more. It can get to be cold...maybe 75 degrees F at night. Shiver. I end up wearing a sweater because it's so cold! Ha.
Wayne Muromoto
Jeff,
My wife willing, I'll see you next year!
Wayne Muromoto
Jeff,
In the limited time we had, it was great to have met you. Meik and Dave both pointed you out to me as someone who came all the way from Kentucky to train, a very dedicated individual, all...
Scott,
No problemo. Maybe guys wearing what looks like dresses and waving big sticks are intimidating to people, after all. We're either nuts or Scottish (a Scottish acquaintance of mine might say...
One correction: The kusarigama ryu is Isshin-ryu, not Ikkaku-ryu. Another bonehead mistake by me.
Wayne Muromoto
I put some photos in two Facebook albums. I think you can see these public photos here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=83702&id=1170071417
and here:
...
Scott,
I was one of the presenters. After our embu, we fielded some queries from interested audience members. Usually, before a group did a demo, we introduced ourselves and explained what was...
Ah, hah! Gotcha Neil! I'm clean and sober. I lost my appetite for booze about the time I got out of grad school and beer stopped being cheap by the pitcher. I'm so squeaky clean my wife doesn't...
I think Kim and Josh pretty much put this one to bed. Unless we want to comment more on the OSU! poster, or something.
Wayne Muromoto
David,
No, but this fellow did wear a black karate uwagi with a green and yellow dragon embroidered on its back over a hakama to naginata class. He never took off his dark glasses. I asked him...
All,
We have that in the West, too. The left eye is the evil eye.
Joe: Yep. I never thought of automobile driving. It's us Americans that have it all wrong!
Wayne
Nice one, David. But it still doesn't beat the actual nuttiness of the guy who walked into the dojo one day claiming to have studied under the eight secret monks of Shaolin Temple and Zatoichi, the...
Osu!!!
--Wayne Muromoto
Bill,
Oh. My. God.
Wayne Muromoto
All,
My theory on this is that the cultural restriction on left-handedness might be traced back to the similar reasons why Greek hoplites fought a certain way. The Greek phalanx was based on...
Folks,
Forgive me if this is the wrong venue, but I just posted a new blog in my Classic Budoka site. I haven't been blogging for a while but a recent spate of strange folk coming to watch my...
Love the outfit...!
Wayne Muromoto
At the risk of off-tracking this thread, here's more food for thought, Kit:
In talking to my teacher, he notes that although the Takenouchi-ryu was "founded" by Takeuchi Hisamori, he dug up family...
Kit,
Here's one example of maybe looking at koryu for techniques:
A lot of SD instructors go through judo or aikido training, or subsets thereof. These are good systems; I've done both in my...