With a nod back to the thrusting triangle, it is important to remember that tsuki – the thrust – can be delivered on any line. The doce pares count is a mnemonic for you to learn that every line (slash) can be a point (thrust). We continue to play the highline. Why? Because it is arguably theContinue reading “JODAN TSUKI (Highline Thrust)”
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THE TRUE TIMES
In our lineage, weapons training derives from Kazuo Chiba Sensei (February 5, 1940 – June 5, 2015) who learned the systematized forms from Morihiro Saito Sensei (March 31, 1928 – May 13, 2002) at Iwama (see below). The details of the connections are better kept as kadensho, but suffice to note that others have influenced theContinue reading “THE TRUE TIMES”