Search:

What I am having a hard time finding for decent prices is simply the uchiko. Everyone wants to sell you a nicely boxed set with peg hammer, oil, paper and uchicko. Just sell me a replacement...

I'm afraid that facebook has taken over the universe that used to be web fora, just (as pointed out) web fora took over from usenet newsgroups. One can rail against it, or simply go with the...

Sadly, that's all too true. Most koryu kenjutsu students are in fact enjoined from "teaching" anything. The pyramidal organization commonly found in the martial arts doesn't really exist - there is...

How about electronic publishing? epub or similar formats should make the work not only easier, but essentially "on demand".

I would recommend Mr. Dan DeProspero at http://www.kyudo.com/ as a resource. I would caution that you may not like the answer, since the bow may have been neglected to the point that it is now only...

"Don't kick the floor..." - Well do I remember, John :) I still practice, even here in North Carolina.

They are serious, and are directly authorized (and visited) by Kuroda Tetsuzan sensei. I trained with them for a couple of years while I lived there. Good folks, small dojo.

I have trained with Kuroda sensei during one visits to the San Antonio dojo. Contact info here http://jbull.home.texas.net/index.html

I would suggest Kyudo (Japanese archery) - if by "purity" you include the meanings derived from spirituality. It has no useful purpose other than the cultivation of self via technique, so it is a...

Yes: Harry Cook, myself, quite a few others. As a result, I think our "shotokan" tends to be less exaggerated than perhaps the classical JKA style. We also tend to do a bit of goju and grappling on...

I don't think this is a good translation of "karate ni sente nashi". Perhaps better is "karate has no advantage with the first move (sente)." This says something quite different, in that it does not...

I'm getting a couple of oldish katana, one that seems to be in good shape from the description given me, and another somewhat less so. When I get them I'll post pictures. But I am looking to have...

You had it much easier than I did in the late 70's - I had big incisions on the side of the knees (yep, bilateral, but separated by about 2 years), and the recovery was not without incident. ...

Is there anyway to watch any part of the basho from in the US? Sumo Digest went away from ESPN2, iirc, and I don't know of any internet feeds...

But why does he seem to SLAM the sword back into the scabbard? That seems odd, at the very least. Everything I've ever been taught or heard of insists that there be no sound at the end of noto, and...

Hi Rob

I was trying to think of where Henry was teaching now, but couldn't pull it up. Thanks for the link. BTW - to the original poster, the dojo referred to above is also a good choice for...

The answer will probably depend on what you mean by "traditional" and what you actually want out of the training. I teach a small adult shotokan karate class at the Morrisville Aquatics Center that...

Have you seen this version? http://www.nbkarateclub.it/kata-nando/W.html

They seem to offer only black tabi - is there an equivalent supplier of white tabi?

She's miserable - and knows nothing about kyudo or kyujutsu. Her posture is awful (head thrust forward), her sleeves are not tied up, as noted her draw stinks, and she is using a finger draw instead...

Thanks for the good words - and yes, they ARE somewhat baroque, because I had set as a goal for these kata to have a continuous, sequence- (not single posture- ) based series of applications that...

I can only agree with the above quote. Further:
1) Some training is always better than no training, in my opinion.
2) Even if a student is fickle and trains with me for only 5 sessions at 1 hour...

Isn't this what DNBK and IMAF are doing? For all budo? If you want "transportable" rank, you might go to one of these organizations. OTOH - I have absolutely no idea of the validity of the claims...

I have had sword seminars from both Nishio and one of his seniors (Tazaki). I am comparing their sword to that of Tetsuzan Kuroda, from whom I also have instruction, and to the sword movements from...

Doesn't this make the blade "dead"? but then, I have seen aikido sensei do very strange things with a sword, and if the idea is to improve your aikido, then the reality aspect of the sword isn't as...