The development of MMA probably feels like a period of huge change for people involved in it, but from the outside it looks like swings of...
Only comment I would make is there are at least 2 sorts of hidden teaching embedded in koryu pedagogy - there were the literally hiden / secret...
Nope - not ZNKR, and the chiburi & noto actually looks somewhat dangerous to the practitioner, but not knowing the lineage I am willing to be...
Ok - not nihon take, possibly also not tatami omote - the threads make me think its beach mat (another very common test cutting material prepared...
By nihondake I am guessing you were cutting actual bamboo (maybe green bamboo, to be honest that construction of nihon-take is not one I am...
団結している刃物 I would roughly parse as unity from the blade....
Excellent, always good to see footage of another school doing jojutsu... especially the kids at 3:24.
My vote goes to video 3, Tekubi-Giri (wrist cut) - but its a close run thing.....
Final Fantasy fans need to have suitable accessories for Comic-Con! Though usually they have wooden or foam mock ups of that one, the true...
From Howard Clark's L6 Bainite swords that have been around a bit over a decade now - then down through powdered swedish steel / dozens of...
Coming late to this - for me there was a disturbing element in some of the patterns in that I could not really visualise where the opponent was......
Looks like the jodo is the Yushinkan remix of the SMR jodo curriculum done by Hakudo Sensei, so probably MSR iai.
First reason was right one - do it cause its cool! Well it isn't but have to say something to get people to try it and find how addictive it...
Most bokken saya are just ovoid tubes of plastic, often with the kurikata incorrectly placed - if your implement is non standard (like my jodo...
Indeed - assuming the spearman is as skilled as the swordsman all the odds are in their favour if out in the open - reach matters and the answers...
Seems perfectly sensible - practicing a koryu that has spun off modern versions for over a century - SMR spawned Uchida Ryu tanjo in the 1890s,...
fred123 I think since the school in question do not do koryu sword and have Toyama as their iai core (looking at their website) you might have...
I really like the one with the old car? in the background... Lots of cultures used a range of points for war - even in my own collection (and...
If that is the same Paul Guerillot that was one of the founders of Australian kendo he would be rolling in his grave at the shinai play.....
Only a slight exageration - thats why the technique is called Sutemi - which literally means something like self abandonment / at the risk of ones...
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