Greetings to anyone who might answer this question. I train in and teach Yoseikan Budo. This last week, our grand master taught naginata v. Bokken in France. Now that I am home, I am having a devil...
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Greetings to anyone who might answer this question. I train in and teach Yoseikan Budo. This last week, our grand master taught naginata v. Bokken in France. Now that I am home, I am having a devil...
We still practice both of these kata regularly. I think I might even have a video of it somewhere. Let me see what I can do about getting or making one for you. Myself and my two teachers taught the...
My experience at aiki dojo is that if a pin is used at the end of a technique, it is essentially symbolic as described above and not intended to actually hold a person in that particular position.
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I agree with David, I have never heard of any tanto kata or work with the tanto, other than defenses against it in Minoru Sensei's work. In Yoseikan budo, as David noted, the core teaching is Tanto...
I wanted to add just a piece of information to what David said above. Being from the U.S., I too had limited knowledge of Minoru Sensei's other students because of our being descended from Col....
Thanks for the attentive reading of my post and excellent questions. At this time, Yoseikan Budo is one art. Six years ago there were different sections within the art, karate, aiki, jiujutsu, etc....
Your notation of Yoseikan Karate is interesting but not quite accurate. In 1931 Minoru Mochizuki started the Yoseikan in Shizuoka, Japan. He was a student of Kano, Ueshiba, and Funikoshi, but...
Shihan Mochizuki switched to the blue and white uniforms and blue and white belts many years ago. In general, there was no significant reaction from his direct students. Shihan made that change...
My instructor, Dr. Glenn Pack, began Yoseikan with Colonel Demizu in 1968 when Demizu Sensei was at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Pack, during the ensuing years, made regular...
It was indeed Hiori no kata that was demonstrated at the Daito Ryu Friendship Demonstrate in 1992. I have been in contact with a daito ryu practitioner in Tokyo who was at that demonstration and it...
It is my understanding that the event did indeed occur. These sorts of things happened to Minoru Mochizuki as well. When he went to Europe in 1951, Minoru Sensei went many places and had friendly (as...
John,
Just as a quick aside, Hiroo Mochizuki was responsible for introducing shotokan to Europe many years ago, as his father before him introduced aikido to Europe in the early 50's. When he...
The previous posts have offered excellent Yoseikan information. The roots of Yoseikan lie in judo, jiujitsu (as noted above), karate (shotokan and wado ryu), katori shinto ryu (as Minoru Mochizuki...
Actually the more interesting issue is that you will never know who you are training with that might have an infectious disease, be it HIV or Hep C or something else. You train with people who don't...
I am a Yoseikan Budo instructor so let me get that part of the atemi question out of the way. Minoru Sensei's Yoseikan did indeed have happo ken kata as an atemi kata and keri yon ho as the four...
yoshinkan is traditionally considered a harder aiki style as is the yoseikan that I practice. It depends on what you really want to study aiki for. With a good karate background, you need a martial...
God,
Thanks so much for that one. I made sure I wasn't drinking anything around my keyboard. If that gets you to e-budo hell, then I will be laughing my a#$ off right behind you. Nice, very nice,...
I can tell you one reason for such confusion. Minoru Mochizuki was very much involved with Daito Ryu when he was still alive and living in Japan. He was often called on to consult with the Daito Ryu...
As long as you comment on their website and factual statements or discuss their information, they have no grounds for a lawsuit. Course, with these folks, that is not a deterrent but in general just...
Thank you David,
This was pretty much my point, the folks "busting myths" referred to hundreds of years before the Meiji period and that was one place I was going, for all their talk, they...
Along with the obvious myth busting mistakes on this site, it is an interesting side note that this group considers itself to be a Christian group. Hmmmm, in the days they are refering to, I don't...
I am a Ph.D. in clinical social work and a certified HIV counselor and certified supervisor of HIV counselors. I ran an HIV/AIDS program for two years, chaired a 51 county planning body, and was on...
Sorry for the little pun. The latest research indicates that in saliva, the acids of the mouth render the virus inert and there is simply not a danger from tears, kissing, etc. At one time,...
It has been several days since I revisited this thread. I am sorry but I cannot just say "okay, that's the way you feel" to the good doctor above. I could say that if you could take the MD off of...
In reply to Michael, yes the first lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Tennessee was dismissed on June 12, 2006 due to jurisdictional issues. On July 31, 2006 it was refiled in State Court in...