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Wall Kake

From Paart Budo Buki by Mats "Toryu" Hjelm

something for your weapons and equipment,





 some more versions,


below is sample how it look with bokken and jo, butit could be for Katana or something else


some measurements and colors of stand, are adjustable, you just say what you need
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Wall Kake

From Paart Budo Buki by Mats "Toryu" Hjelm

something for your weapons and equipment,





 some more versions,


below is sample how it look with bokken and jo, butit could be for Katana or something else


some measurements and colors of stand, are adjustable, you just say what you need
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Rare Look at the Vital Connections of 殺気 Sakki

From Bujinkan Santa Monica by Michael

Mirror entrance of Kannon-ji (観音寺), Tokyo, Taito, Yanaka photo by MIchael Glenn
Understanding connection is a survival tactic of the Bujinkan. Even a mystery like Sakki Nage 殺気投 appears from 繋がり tsunagari or vital connections learned in our basics. But to actually do this we must also throw it away. So for students hoping to learn the mysteries of our art, many find contradictions in this concept of connection. These contradictions lead to deadly mistakes. In one class I heard Hatsumi Sensei say,
"Everything is let go, but at the same time is connected. You have to be able to do this. Otherwise you won't become capable budoka."
How do you let go yet stay connected? One answer to this leads to martial abilities that appear supernatural and many people don't accept. Yet I know they exist through my own experience with them.

The thing to remember is that an ability like sakki nage grows from basic kamae and taijutsu in a natural way. To explain, let's consider a mistake many students make when doing a standard nage:

You forget to expand your attention as you do a technique or a throw. You lock your mind and spirit up with the throw. This exposes suki and you aren't even aware of it. Deadly.

So one fix is to go ahead, throw away the self. This is an aspect of sakki nage. This is the flip side of the godan test. Sakki in the Godan test is about sensing the killing intention written by Hatsumi Sensei as 察気.

Once you learn to throw away the self and the ego (which allows you to pass the godan test), then you may develop the ability to emit or mask sakki 殺気, the killing intent. In that order. People often find it easier to emit this intent than to mask it.

But what is even more fascinating is what comes next. Being able to project it! With this ability you can give the Godan test effectively. But also project this ki as an attack!

There we have Sakki Nage. There are 2 ways to consider this:

One is Throwing an opponent with your ki. I've witnessed it. I've done it. People who don't believe it probably haven't learned the steps before: sensing sakki; emitting sakki; masking sakki.

Second is throwing it away! Discarding sakki is and tossing it aside is an amazing defense. Which leads us back to the basic mistake of exposing suki.

What does this have to do with a connection to your surroundings and suki? Well all of these mysterious skills come from basic understanding of kamae and knowing that good kamae only exists through connection. When you are able to connect at the level of sakki nage, your suki will have disappeared.

Let me ask you this: where do you think they go?…

Tessen, bokusen, mokusen

From Paart Budo Buki by Mats "Toryu" Hjelm

Helo Buyu's,

this is something that almost all know as Tessen, some say Bokusen, other  say  Mokusen, which is probably same thing, as boku and moku is same

until I find real name for this I will call it, wooden tessen

so below you could see my new there basic shape of tesen, Sensu gata, Gunsen gata, and Maiohgi gata.

Again I try to make something authentic, but functional, not only for training but it could be good also for self-defense.

soon more info and pics,



inyo tessen, padouk wood  and hornbeam wood,







some older versions


Gunsen gata Tessen, made of ipe and hornbeam


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Tessen, bokusen, mokusen

From Paart Budo Buki by Mats "Toryu" Hjelm

Helo Buyu's,

this is something that almost all know as Tessen, some say Bokusen, other  say  Mokusen, which is probably same thing, as boku and moku is same

until I find real name for this I will call it, wooden tessen

so below you could see my new there basic shape of tesen, Sensu gata, Gunsen gata, and Maiohgi gata.

Again I try to make something authentic, but functional, not only for training but it could be good also for self-defense.

soon more info and pics,



inyo tessen, padouk wood  and hornbeam wood,







some older versions


Gunsen gata Tessen, made of ipe and hornbeam


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Bujinkan Dojo Hanbo

From Paart Budo Buki by Mats "Toryu" Hjelm

Dear Budo friends,
 
In the beginning of the New 2013. year,  something to start with, 
 
Hanbo is first weapon in Buki waza and every beginners start  Buki training with this tool.
 
The hanbo can easily find, create or adapt from some handle,
however most practitioners want, quality hanbo that shows their membership to Bujinkan or any other organization or martial art.



this Hanbo was made from hornbeam wood, with straight texture, which will guarantee that the cane will not break, the structure hornbeam and compactness without large porosity makes it durable
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Bujinkan Dojo Hanbo

From Paart Budo Buki by Mats "Toryu" Hjelm

Dear Budo friends,
 
In the beginning of the New 2013. year,  something to start with, 
 
Hanbo is first weapon in Buki waza and every beginners start  Buki training with this tool.
 
The hanbo can easily find, create or adapt from some handle,
however most practitioners want, quality hanbo that shows their membership to Bujinkan or any other organization or martial art.



this Hanbo was made from hornbeam wood, with straight texture, which will guarantee that the cane will not break, the structure hornbeam and compactness without large porosity makes it durable
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2012 in review

From Shiro Kuma's Weblog by kumablog

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 74,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Saya with KAERITSUNO

From Paart Budo Buki by Mats "Toryu" Hjelm

Dear Buyu's,

due to constant improvement, here's another novelty from my little workshop
 
 The aim of kaeritsuno is to catch the obi(belt) when you pull out the blade so that saya won't come off at the same time

If you look at the professional literature about Nihonto, or look offer of antique Nihonto, you will see that Kaeritsuno most commonly appear on Kodachi and Tanto koshirae 

more about this kodachi you could find on my   Koryu Buki blog (here)

  
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Saya with KAERITSUNO

From Paart Budo Buki by Mats "Toryu" Hjelm

Dear Buyu's,

due to constant improvement, here's another novelty from my little workshop
 
 The aim of kaeritsuno is to catch the obi(belt) when you pull out the blade so that saya won't come off at the same time

If you look at the professional literature about Nihonto, or look offer of antique Nihonto, you will see that Kaeritsuno most commonly appear on Kodachi and Tanto koshirae 

more about this kodachi you could find on my   Koryu Buki blog (here)

  
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