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There were indeed many designs specifically attributed to the Yagyu school, but about all I can do is pass this excerpt from Autumn Lighting along:
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That was the right answer. The sweat from your hands, and the pressure of your grip will break it in soon enough, through daily use.

Like a lot of beginning students, you attacked him wrong...

Heh - I'll be satisfied if I was able to just get someone to wheel my swordcase through Tokyo Station, come October. Now that's a workout... :p

First off, thanks to everyone who has responded; I have been using ice when I can, and have used some of the hand stretches that our aikido folks at the dojo use, to some effect. And I also have...

I've been training for close to five years now, but over the last few months I've been cursed by a repeated muscle strain that I feel across the back of my left hand. It's not a bother in any other...

Don't really care for it; buttons look kinda sickly. Thought my monitor was going out this morning. I'm sure I'll get used to it, but liked it more before the change...

Try this: http://www.declan-software.com/japanese/

I've used the hiragana and katakana programs quite a bit, and although I never delved into the kanji one that far, it looks just as useful. In...

When I first started iai about four years ago, I tried to practice at least something in my apartment every night. It varied between noto, suburi or even full kata (with the stated considerations...

Who here has advocated removing guards for such reasons? I think you are the one exaggerating. I think everyone understands the reasonable distinction between a trained (and uniformed) security...

All I'll say is that he does illustrate why you should never do a formal bow with your sword in your obi...

Bushi no Ichibun was pretty good although more of a period drama than anything else. Been waiting for Semi Shigure to come out in the States - I've gotten mixed quality results buying bootlegs...

As long as there aren't 50 new navigational options in the dropdown list - that would be hard to deal with, as it's the way I usually browse through the site...

Have you asked them yet? As that seems to be more or less a "stock" cover that budovideos displays for some of their titles, and there is no description on their site, my first inclination would be...

She's like 21 now...! :) Still, good form. Makes me wish I'd kept up with karate myself; I still remember a lot of those strikes from ten years ago...

Perhaps. Even swinging around a sub-two-pound iaito with one hand may be taxing after an hour or so, though. Good luck with your explorations, at any rate. Just realize that Japanese...

Chris, I can't recall what training you have offhand, but have you ever swung a katana one-handed for any length of time? I think the limitations of doing so would present themselves rather quickly;...

Ouch. Very ouch...

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Um, "what" Iraqi soldiers were captured here? Please quote your sources, because if anything like that had actually been proven to have taken place, it would've certainly been crowed about by the...

We have one in our dojo, although I've only used it a couple of times. As I was taught, they are used to train the hara, and not the arms. You slowly swing the (furibo?) straight down from jodan. ...

I think, at the very least, some photos of the quality issues that were raised could be helpful, even if sent only via PM...

"Uh huh, uh huh. That's whatever-you-were-talking-about for you..."

That's odd - I had no prob, Dave. At each inspection (both before entering the terminal, and at ticket counter), they had me unlock it so they could run the magnet over it, but did allow me to lock...

If you have to consistently polish your blade to keep it shiny, you need to take better care of maintaining it. There are traditional methods of cleaning a Japanese-style blade (search this site, or...