Sounds like judo is what you're looking for. It'll be an intense workout, help you ensure an upright posture, and give you a good sense of balance...
To be fair, "Jitsu" foundation isn't just poor karate and poor aikido; it layers those on a strong foundation of bad judo. One might even call it...
Tangentially related, it looks like Toei has now put Jiraiya on YouTube: [MEDIA]
A necro-post of sorts, but the great Sonny Chiba passed away a few days ago, having caught COVID and pneumonia.
This might seem off-topic at first, but bear with me. With the growth in popularity of BJJ in recent decades, Kanners can now easily find good...
Come on, the subforum is largely dormant and we can have a laugh thinking about old times, especially those of us who've embarrassingly enough...
The news got me looking back at old discussions, and I found the one in which a fanboy on MAP was insisting that this guy was more skilled than...
Yesterday I was reminded of the all-time best post on this forum, which I'll quote for everyone's entertainment. Bonus, in the same post, Chris...
My somewhat-outsider read (which I don't think is particularly controversial) of the Bujinkan schools has for a long time been that not all of the...
Spot on, although I do think the latter rumour came about as a sort of comeback to the (rampant on Kutaki, MAP, and other places) claim that...
I haven't been on MAP, or in this world really, for ages, but I stumbled across the news recently of the succession to the ryu-ha, and I thought...
I have no dog in this fight, but I have seen videos like that from Bujinkan people as well. (Yes, I agree that that video you linked to is...
Didn't look like hacked account messages and the tone/writing style is totally congruent with his post history here, so I don't think so.
Haha, that made me think of of Ichikawa Raizo, the star of Shinobi no Mono (a jidaigeki film for which Takamatsu sensei was apparently the martial...
Came across this thread on MAP. Looks like he gave himself Menkyo Kaiden in Daito Ryu :D
Those are of the original dissertation, a revised version of which is in the first Skoss Koryu trilogy book. The published book has a couple of...
Another book well worth looking at is The Buddhist Goddess Marishiten: A Study of the Evolution and Impact of Her Cult on the Japanese Warrior....
From the outfit I'm fairly certain he thought it was going to be a conventional interview studio. I wonder what went through his mind when he came in.
[IMG] Guns continued to be popular in the Edo period, but martial arts as a whole certainly declined. Swords became more elements of the...
Have you written to Master Ashida Kim yet about his book?
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