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Kobudo Korner: April 2012
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Friday, 20 April 2012. 8216;Furious 5’ International Seminar, Bolton 2012. I have been lucky enough in my short time in the arts to have trained. H some of the best instructors around and I have also taught at. Many small courses / seminars all over the UK but when I was invited. By Sensei Andrew Wilshaw, head of the Nippon Traditional Kobudo. Association, to teach at the annual seminar I was slightly nervous but. Honoured to do so. Last year the event brought well over 250. Being for cadets and Sunday f...
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Street Edge: Realistic training & some tips!
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Tuesday, 20 December 2011. Realistic training and some tips! Getting back to the point, most martial arts systems teach how to defend against attacks, usually in the manner of “the attacker grabs you, you do this defence”, “when the attacker punches, you do this”. Now if we relate this to a sandwich all we are getting here is the filling. Remember we are trying to control the whole situation, not just the physical attack. Your physical response. How have you controlled your attacker? If you have used an ...
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Core Reality: The Basics of Verbal De-escalation
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Saturday, 1 September 2012. The Basics of Verbal De-escalation. Then I notice a third party come into that conversation and get a little too close to NFN1. His head is moving like a woodpecker or some kind of hen pecking at something and he looked at NFN1 and said," You pulled a gun on his dad? A teacher disciplining a student;. A parent with a problem child;. A stewardess with an angry passenger;. A manager with a disgruntled employee. To me this is always better than physical force. Physical force ...
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Reality Bites: March 2011
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011. The Virtues of Bushido. As an instructor whom trains with the Japanese katana I have often been asked my thoughts on the code of bushido. Whilst I have great interest in all things Japanese especially feudal fighting techniques I make no claim to fully understand the spiritual development of the fighting men of Japan. After all I am not Japanese and I am certainly not a samurai. The general feeling is one of friendship and the pursuit of correct knowledge. People, but from yourself.
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Reality Bites: August 2011
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Sunday, 14 August 2011. From Nothing to Something. Ivory towers and soap boxes, the two worst problems in my opinion in the martial arts world today; or to put it another way: politics. Respect also seems to be another value that’s missing lately, not just from the martial arts but from all areas of society and what is even worse than this is those that demand respect, they seem to forget respect has to be earned. Of course it could be that I’ve been having a lot of bad experiences lately. In modern time...
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Reality Check: Just how realistic and fit for purpose is your self-protection training?
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Monday, 14 November 2011. Just how realistic and fit for purpose is your self-protection training? The thing is, I'm fully aware that these are indeed nothing more than harmless daydreams, we can all choose to have them at times; it's nothing more than harmless escapism. The problem begins when people choose to have these hugely delusional thoughts in areas of their daily life that really should be approached with reasonable rationality and a basic cognitive thought process. A few months ago I had the pl...
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Reality Check: The Sensei under pressure...
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Monday, 5 September 2011. The Sensei under pressure. How many of you (me included) did or still do believe that the black belt 10th Dan in some mystical martial art from the mountains of Japan is force to be reckoned with outside the kebab shop at 3:30am this Saturday morning? What nine times out of 10 we are missing here is our old friend adrenalin, all the screaming kyaa! And all other Bruce Lee/Chuck Norris expletives in the world are not making the situation live in training. But wait no knockout!
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Street Edge: The Healing Arts
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Friday, 11 November 2011. Well I missed the last submission date for my blog due to having quite a large workload from University, but hopefully this won’t happen that often. I have decided to make this blog tie in with what I am studying at Uni and my martial arts as I feel they are two sides of the same coin. I am currently in my 2. If we briefly look at traditional arts then we know that Tai Chi and Chi Kung are popular arts that emphasise health; other arts also include healing methods as part of the...
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Kobudo Korner: Doki Doki Festival, Manchester 2011
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Tuesday, 20 December 2011. Doki Doki Festival, Manchester 2011. Guest post by John David. After receiving a welcoming invite to attend and demonstrate at the Manchester Japanese Doki Doki Festival, martial artists from the Bukido Dojo and other martial arts dojos were about to embark upon something that is different from a traditional demonstration. Now captivated, onlookers were treated to displays between students from the Shōsha dojo and Bukido dojo, in which the bo, hanbo, naginata, katana, tanto, nu...
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Reality Bites: October 2012
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012. Ancient arts, modern world – are they fit for purpose? This blog no doubt will upset the. Traditional practitioners but the content of the blog does have a serious point to it and that point is do old bugei martial arts systems have real practical use in a modern world? Now I am not condoning violence as something to be proud of or that these techniques are an answer to all threats of violence; believe me, I have been on the receiving end of a good kicking so nobody is infallible.
