I took up cycling to work (over the past two years) that has done wonders for my knee pain. Must work different muscles than from doing kenjutsu/taijutsu
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I took up cycling to work (over the past two years) that has done wonders for my knee pain. Must work different muscles than from doing kenjutsu/taijutsu
Actually, I have already translated them. I just have to transfer my written translation to the computer and add in the images....which takes almost as long as translating it...:cry:
Yeah, it totally sucks compared to lulu.com but it makes it available to a much wider audience.
The books still come out looking great, just the upload user interface is kinda low tech
http://jinenkanhonbu.blogspot.jp/2014/04/the-complete-martial-arts-of-japan_5.html
The above link goes to my blog post about this project. Originally published in 1898. Fully illustrated, the ...
If you are training alone probably the Jinenryu Biken Iai no Maki DVD is what i would recommend.
Five techniques that cover a pretty wide variety of Jissen sword. Doesnt take a long time to learn...
As in stopping it as to not over-swing.
News from Japan:
A teenage girl was jogging last night (Oct 3rd) when some kook jumped out knocked her down and stabbed her and then started kissing her and feeling her up. To facilitate the...
They have a bunch of three foot long metal bars that the track and field team hold when they do lunges, they vary from 1-3 inches in diameter and i use those for suburi practice. The bigger they get...
Sorry not yet. Access to pre war newspapers is limited as well so not sure when i will be able to get hold of Gingtetsu Itoh's newspaper articles.
The follow up to Ninjutsu no Gokui is also done!
Gendaijin no Ninjutsu:nin:
The leg exercises used by Sumo wrestlers can be effective. Sumo Shiko (相撲四股) You can find videos of it on you tube and whatnot.
Good luck!
Re: The last bit of the Miyamoto Musashi quote. I wonder if its the following expression in Japanese?
生兵法は大怪我の基 A little learning is a dangerous thing
Any video clips of the proceedings?
Did you get a chance to check it out? I would like to hear what some people thought of it.
There is a digitized version of the book here
http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/898160/1
That's the first even partial translation of his work that ive seen other than bits of chapter titles.
All on digital archive to boot! Volume 7 has stuff on Foreigners as well 和漢三才図会. 巻之7異国人物,外夷人物
That would be very interesting indeed. Itoh Sensei also wrote the definition of Ninjutsu for the Japanese Encyclopedia.
A lot of that seems to be taken from the book in some kind of wacky out of order summary. Clearly Itoh Sensei's discussion on those points is more fluid and complete. Still that is the first time I...
Hi I recently completed a translation of Nijutsu no Gokui. I posted on it on the blog but I wasnt able to send a mail to the address you listed for some reason.
How can I go about getting it...
Translation of Ninjutsu no Gokui by Gingetsu Itoh is complete and available at
http://www.lulu.com/shop/gingetsu-itoh/ninjutsu-no-gokui/paperback/product-20279917.html
Ninjutsu no Gokui...
A stable master beat a young trainee to death two years ago, a couple of Rikishi 力士got busted for pot, they found out that a lot of the prime seats were going to Yakuzaヤクザ dudes and my favorite, they...
Not a whole lot of spectators at this Basho. Seems many people have become more than a bit sick of all the scandals and 八百長yaocho and whatnot.
eric