Does anyone know about a style of Aikijujutsu called Geki Ryu? http://gekiryu.blogspot.com/ Is it genuine?
Are kids classes good for the Takamatsuden arts? I'm talking about things like "Li'l Ninjas" or "Kid Ninjas" that are run by X-kan instructors....
How many people have received 5th dan in the Jinenkan ..... and how long did it take them to go from white belt to 5th dan? (I'm not asking...
Ok most of us are aware that the 11-15 dan are actually sublevels within 10th dan ....... nothing new there. But here is someone (one of the...
Is it true that Soke knows Katori Shinto Ryu? Apparently he used to say that he knew the ryuha better than the members of the Katori Shinto...
Not too long ago, there were no 15th dans. When a few did get it, Soke said that the 15th dan was a "True Shihan". It sounded like a big deal....
It seems to me that the koryu arts that have decided to spread outside of Japan are doing so in two ways. A) The first way is with a branch...
Howcome the katana has received so much attention and veneration in the Japanese martial arts? What was the big deal about that weapon in...
In today's world there is an attraction to martial arts with long and romantic histories. This is a selling point for many classical arts .......
According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To*****ugu_Takamatsu and a LOT of other websites ..... Takamatsu Sensei was the...
Is it true that gaijin actually outrank Ishizuka nowdays? If so ................ BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
we hear a lot about how certain "classical techniques" won't work in today's world because "people don't attack like that anymore" .... is this...
Remember back in the 1980s how a green belt in ninjutsu could ..... and did .... pwn high dan grades from other martial arts. Loads of people quit...
A common theme in the Bujinkan is that "spoonfeeding" students is bad .... but what exactly do you define as "spoonfeeding"? Does having a...
On another thread, I commented that I didn't see a problem with sucker punches such as hitting someone from behind. How about you? Given that...
okay, I keep hearing about how all you need is contained in kihon happo and sanshin ....... even hear about people working on sanshin for decades....
Is this place Bujinkan? http://www.secretstobetterkids.com/woodard/ The uniforms look a bit different.
Doug Wilson's latest blog (http://henka.wordpress.com/) has an interesting statement about Hatsumi Sensei giving a godan test.... There was a...
Anyone noticed how when poor teaching and ranking practices in the Bujinkan are criticized there are apologists who claim that these are "T3h...
Why didn't all individual koryu evolve between 1600 and 1868? ok ... this is a bit tricky for me to phrase so please bear with me. I'm curious...
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