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Hi Michael, just out of curiosity, what style of Kobudo do you or have you practiced? I know you are gathering information to write a book on the subject and have been doing a little research. If...

Hi Tim, my name is Robby Bray and I am a student of Tamayose Hidemi and Donald Shapland. First off I would like to say it is a pleasure to talk with you and hope we can keep talking in the future. ...

Donald Shapland Sensei makes very nice Timbe and Rochin sets. He will even hand script the Timbe with what ever you would like to say on it.

Just out of curiousty, which kobudo styles use empty hand kata? Mine does not, so I am just wondering which do. Our tekko kata is very similar to an empty hand kata but not the same.

In retrospect, I think that a person trained in kobudo who understands the mechanics of ryukyu kobudo only amplifies his or her karate on a scale that only the individual truley understands. These...

I too agree. To practice an empty hand kata might be interesting to have a sai or another form of weapon in your hand and see how the kata works, but we can not be confused with the fact that the...

I have many of there weapons and our group has spent several thousands of dollars with them over the past few years and have been completely happy with all of them until recently. In one week I have...

Thanks for the information. I have that same list that is on the Hozon SHinko Kai's site. What I am trying to find however would be the where Yabiku Moden learned the kata from or who passed the...

Who was Yabiku Moden's Bojutsu most influenced by? Tawata Pechin or Chinen Sanda? Or perhaps someone else? Thanks for any info.

Here is a pic of the Timbe that Shapland Sensei sent me. It is very very nice. Well worth the price.

Robby

Well said David.

Well said Doug.

Yes, we too are training pretty hard in Ryu Kyu Kobudo. We are under Tamayose Hidemi Sensei, a student of Akamine Sensei. We train more often with his most Senior student Donald Shapland Sensei in...

Hey Tim, that is a nice website. All that hip looks a lot like my Ryu Kyu Kobudo that we practice under Tamayose Sensei on Okinawa. Do you live close to Vancouver? If you get a chance email me at...

Hey Tim. How are you? I was wondering since you have trained with the Hozon Shinko Kai in Okinawa if you knew Sensei Tamayose Hidemi?

Like so many other 10 Dans in the U.S., you must have mastered yet another art. Engineering has turned into such a generic term nowadays. Kinda like technicians. The original point of this thread was...

Not sure what happened there. BUt anyway this is the exact reason that Gene was wondering why no is responding to these threads anymore. Too many people that don't have a clue as to what they are...

Hey Mark, your comments really don't surprise me. It sounds like you did a whole lot of research over the web, but still aren't even sure what you even said. It's kinda like everything else in the...

Stay true to yourself and what you believe. Five or six training the right way is far more rewarding than babysitting a hundred.

I have to disagree with you on that one. The key is if it is welded. The blades are not welded anywhere and if hardened after being sharpened it will hold its edge. They chose a 330 stainless...

I agree with you about the American problem with the vowels being pronounced incorrectly. There's another problem here too though. Everyone likes to lump the Okinawans/Japanese together, but when...

Most likely. Remember, don't sweat the small stuff.

I'm with Crane Mountain also. I've been ordering their stuff for about four years now and have not had a complaint about anything. Bo, Tonfa, Ekku, Nunchaku ... thumbs up to all.

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Is it a machete like tool, or a Rochin with a machete like blade attached to it? Lots of different Rochin blades out there. The fact that there are only a few Okinawan Rochin Kata out there, and...

Sorry David. Didn't mean to sound so harsh. What I meant to say was that I think you may have read it wrong, or your source may not have been as accurate as you thought.