One thing I forgot to add. It is undoubtedly difficult to deliver strong strikes with that posture and using primarily the forearms. That's also...
I'll tell what I see in that clip that makes me appreciate it, even it doesn't follow the same precise technical paradigm as the school I...
There's a lot to like. Very nice control, excellent use of maai, full of spirit. In any ryuha you're going to see some stylization in the...
As a practitioner of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu I can say definitely that Kamiizumi Nobutsuna learned Kage-ryu, also known as Aisu Kage-ryu, from Aisu...
Haven't seen the movie, don't know the choreographer, and suspect that even if it was meant to be done realistically there was still a bit of...
In archaic Japanese, verbs undertaken by a plural subject were often preceded by the prefix "ai-" (written 相). So a single subject sentence might...
Yeah, I fixed that. :)
Sumai no sechie predates koryu by a number of centuries, being a product of the Nara and Heian periods. One thing to keep in mind is that "sumo"...
I don't think shame or unmanliness of shields was really a factor. The foot soldiers did have shields to protect them from arrows, and during the...
Samurai started training in childhood, as young as 5 or 6. They were often called to battle, and in some cases to lead men, at the age of 15 or...
Separate names with a comma.