A variety of tsuba at good prices: http://www.sdksupplies.com/cat_furtsuba.htm
Because the foremost concern of any martial artist is to look cool and get people excited about their performance, obviously. :rolleyes: Maybe...
IJJO probably means the "Irish JuJutsu Organization" headed by Dominic McCloskey, 4th dan (no mention from where), which seems to teach an art...
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Then I doubt this sword has any art value and that it will gain any as time goes on. Maybe that's just my opinion though, but a sub-$2000...
Or spend a long time trying to sell it because not everyone has the same requirements or taste as you have, perhaps have to deal with the trouble...
Am I the only one that knows about sword polishers? Yes, if you blunt your shinken, it's nearly certain you won't be able to get the edge back...
Yes, that is a good question, isn't it? I have my own answer, and it's not about swordfighting. Talking with others who have been involved in...
Because people who had bad techniques and stupid ideas died from trying them out, and those who had good techniques and good ideas survived. We...
One big, huge problems with "finding what works" and "try to go beyond it" is the fact that we don't fight with swords anymore. So there is no...
It's a hard call to make. If he doesn't claim to teach HNIR, doesn't issue rank in it, but simply teaches kata he stole from the style, well I'm...
Isn't Nihonto more of a term indicating the way the sword was forged (traditional japanese) rather than a sword type? After all, I think katana,...
EDIT: Deleting my post It seems that the Hoshin Ryu website makes no direct claim about Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu, just sells DVDs with the kata on...
We already knew your school didn't have a clue what it was doing when it came to HNIR. Now with this you show you have very little knowledge of...
Fifth, if you combine the kanji for dai/ou and tou/katana, you don't get daikatana, you get daitou, which is just another word for longsword. A...
I don't know what you mean by "named", but that doesn't read right to me. A committe chose the kata. This was headed, AFAIK, by Otani Kazuo. Oe...
Actually, I believe the term means a sword replica, not just a wallhanger. Mogi = replica, tou=sword. I've heard the term used to refer to iaito...
Kenji Tokitsu's book has a nice section on the ryu and its descendants. Other names for the ryu included, I believe, Niten Masana Ryu and Musashi...
There were other blades with the edge on the inside of the curve; witness the indian kukhri, for example. But as far as Japanese blades,...
I don't know, but Karl Friday's writings on the Japanese curved sword and a response of his in a thread on e-budo lead me to believe long swords...
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