The art of the Japanese bayonet
By Nuno Vieira de Almeida After a quick Shinkansen trip (if you are travelling with a lot of luggage, make sure you get a reserved seat or that you get in the right part of the train-car where you can store it behind the seats) I finally got to Nagoya! Right in the train platform... Continue Reading →
By Nuno Vieira de Almeida July 22nd 2018 After an airline delay (thank you, TAP, as efficient as ever) and a night spent at a Frankfurt airport hotel, I am finally on my way to Japan. First stop: Kansai International Airport! On my way to Japan…for real and for the first time. After... Continue Reading →
By Jacek Lipiński What is your budo background? I am a kendo godan, when I started doing jukendo I was a yondan. Why did you start a jukendo training group? I was always interested in jukendo, but it was one of those martial arts, that you knew was there somewhere, but too far... Continue Reading →
Commentary by Simon Larsen Both players open in the same manner. Moving forward but in a circular pattern. To my mind this is a fairly defensive way of testing out an opponent you suspect is going to be good. The first series of strikes all look to be made by confident mindsets and the attacking... Continue Reading →
What is your budo background? I’ve been studying atarashii naginata for over a decade now and acting as instructor for the Victorian Naginata Renmei for about 8 years; I wasn’t yet shodan when I began instructing, it was a case of there was no-one senior to me left to run classes and it was figure... Continue Reading →
Commentary by Simon Larsen With Nodo tsuki your shimei (locked final position of the strike) is even more important than for normal tsuki. If you are not locked and end up pushing against the receiver in normal tsuki it is annoying for them and encourages bad habits. In nodo tsuki the same action can cause... Continue Reading →
Details are yet to be confirmed by the renmei but I believe the following is substantially correct: Jukendo August 4-6 2018 Tankendo August 7-9 2018 15,000 yen covers meals and accomodation 20 students maximum by invite only 5-10 high grade sensei each day Yokosuka, Kanagawa A Grading will be held at the end of the... Continue Reading →
What a ride it had been! I cannot really look at those initial videos. Just the same, I can’t browse through the photos from the first Polish Jukendo seminar . Those clumsy moves, those basic mistakes, and the absolute lack of any clue what I’m doing on my face. Not that I don’t do stupid... Continue Reading →
2017-09-30 (Saturday) As the Tankendo All Japans are looming over for some people, Hisatsune sensei decided that the quantity of the short stick training should prevail over the long one – hence today’s session was held in the Aichi Budokan with a primary and only focus on tankendo. As I have already mentioned multiple times,... Continue Reading →