Try and sit in the correct zazen posture to meditate for any achievement. If you cant do it simply roll a cushion or hard foam pad to sit on. as...
Cutting is pretty easy. Cutting with the correct technique is as hard as any Budo and takes years of practice. I don't like beach mats. Too many...
Well I've been out of it for 8 years with no internet in a mountain jungle. Just 30 klm round trips check email and moderate another forum. Where...
Nice one Scott. 66 today! I guess if I still did Iaido I my knees would have given up by now. Practicing outside standing up has it's advantages...
P.S. You are not going to find anything on wikipedia anyway. It's a nice concept but the fact of the matter is "anybody" can edit it. I put up...
I think you will find the KSR has no connection whatsoever to HNIR save that of intense dislike. When Musashi wrote of avoiding displays of...
I was going to add something about that. Japanese had very little in that day and age of anything. Just finished five hours...
Twenty million speak Cebuano commonly called Bisaya further South. More than Tagalog before they decide on it as a national language as it is used...
I use Sagi ashi on a rising cut from tate hiza. I was tuaght it was used to generate more power throwing the full body into the waza. Kageryu...
I clear mountain jungle a few times a week. Looking at yours I dont think it will last very long. Does not look well sharpened either. That poor...
The thing is a lot of Budo bunka comes from old Japanese methods of agriculture. One step forward one back, plant the rice etc. The word 'keiko'...
Well I don't make things up. Just write what I have bee told. This information was given to me some twenty years ago by a friend who is a well...
Please dont buy an Iaito. Wait until you have practiced and ask your instructor for advice. I know Sekiguchi Sensei personaly . Thats what he...
Sure lots of bamboo. I would guess quite cumbersome and heavy like the armour. They did have very fine chain mail. Also the basic principal of...
A simple but easy answer. They dont have and have never had a large commodity of metal
Just choose a colour in a material you can keep clean to show that you look after your weapon. Japanese colours are usually rather sombre for men
Hello nice to hear from you. Did you go to Finland? A lot of new people who I hope will continue, some from USA and a lot of progress with the...
I am there now for an HNIR seminar http://seidokai.ca/iai-nitenseminar.html I was told that the new homepage was put up yesterday. I will...
Well for around 40 years I have been using normal size shinken to rather long one. http://www.hyoho.com/longsw.jpg I have been hacking down...
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