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Just looked through it, I don't see any burning house, only a shed that is being "smoked out" but anyway that demonstartion seems to have happened.



That was what I was thinking, but James...

I was in the Bujinkan for six years and I never heard that one. Is it recent? Maybe there was this big House-Burning-Demo that I missed last year.
I mean, I heard all kinds of stories which are...

Hi,

Thank you all very much for the information.

Dr. Friday's post made me think that maybe my lack of proficiency with the English language has led to a misunderstanding.

I was looking for...

Hi!

I'm writing a short paper for a history class about Miyamoto Musashi as an example/contrast of/to the code of conduct and prinicple of honour among sixteenth century Samurai.

Right now, I'm...

I completely agree. Marc MacYoung put it quite similar, when saying (quoted from memory) "Its better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. Yeah, but only if you're prepared to be raped by 5 in the...

Hi Gregory,


It's just a <b>first try</b> for a reliable definition. But I don't see why not. It's meant as a universal definition for "good" SD-techniques, whether they use weapons/tools or not....

Hi John,


Yes. What I wanted to say by this is that too many "black belts" teach techniques that may be very easy for them (having years of experience and training). The same techniques might be...

Since there is no pure Self Defense Forum on e-budo, I'm putting this here.


I've seen too many self styled "experts" teaching "self defense"-techniques that would get the defender hurt or killed...

So, which of the "new tools" taught in the Bujinkan do you use for self defense in the dangerous streets of modern Amsterdam? The shinobigatana, tachi, kamayari, naginata, kussari-gama,...

The guy's talking about PANGEA, right? Now some nut from Ninjutsu claims it to be 300 MILLION years old?

That even tops

or


Now ninjutsu does no longer only claim seniority over all...

You obviously had me confused with Achim Steigert, the thread starter, from Belgium there. :-)
I just pointed out that the weapon is in one of Hatsumis books and that he calls it an "oh-gama".


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There are two photos on page 139 of "Ninjutsu, History and Tradition", showing Hatsumi with what is described in the text as an "oh-gama".

I haven't studied Krav Maga, but I have their videos. Their basic work looks alot like Muay Thai. They just add a very straigtfoward block for punches and knife attacks that one obviously wouldn't...

Finally somebody answered! Thank you!

I looked through all of the historical literature in english and german and most of the japanese history books at our university institute, but was unable to...

Hi!

I'm looking for the original kamon (family crest) of the Uesugi Family, before Kenshin. Did they use the same as Kenshin later did (The kanji "Bi" from "Bishamonten") ?

Any help would be...

So learning the basics of Japanese Kenjutsu would already help? So you would be able to decide whether you want to make the Journey to Leer or Frankfurt now and then?
Then you might want to try the...

Hi Jörg!

If you don't mind me asking, what are you training in now?

You can find some information about Sojutsu at http://koryu.com/guide/sojutsu.html

There also is an article about Owari Kan Ryu Sojutsu at
http://koryu.com/library/harmstrong1.html

HTH

Hi!

This semester, I'm supposed to do a short oral presentation and a short paper on "Uesugi Kenshin & Takeda Shingen", for what's essentially a "Japanese History 101". For this I'm still loking...

Thank you for the offer. After reading your post, I started to really look around the Internet for different models. I'm still not able to decide so if anyone else has any experience with different...

Hi everybody!

I'm thinking about buying something in the line of the Canon Wordtank. Does anybody around here have any experience with it or - even better - do you know of any alternatives? On the...

Yes. Its the Kanji KA. It means "pleasing", "beautiful", "skilled", etc. It's also the Kanji for ii/yoi, which means "good" (although the Japanese today write this in Hiragana).

OFF TOPIC!



Are you serious? You do know the name Takeda Shingen, do you? Do you also happen to know the name Kousaka Danjou Masanobu? He is widely believed to have been a little bit more than...

A good protrayal of the spirit of the japnese martial arts can be found in the movie "Tampopo" (dandelion).
It's about a female owner of a ramen-resaturant (ramen = japnese noodle soup) who learns...

I'm soooo stupid. :) I was trying to cut and paste JIS encoded text here. Nevermind. Do you still need the Kanji for Tenshin Shin'yo ryu?

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