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Iv'e had over the last few years many comments regarding my blog. All have been very positive. Thank you. People have also asked me. “Why do you write pages and not posts? Well, from my experience training in Budo, nothing comes to you ...…From Kabutoshimen by Toryu
On the left is still my favourite so far, Yona Yona Ale from Karuizawa Nagano.
On the right was an alcohol free beer from Kirin. Pretty lame compared too good alcohol free beer like Jever and Klausthalle. It had some weird taste which reminded me of sweatty shoes.
The middle one is with alcohol 5%, Sparkling Hop from Kirin breweries. It has hops from New Zealand. This beer is also without bite 
. It taste almost like all their other beers. Kirin have thousands of different beers and they are all the same more or less. What a boring brewery! That is why I didn’t include them in the earlier tests.
It will probably take some time before I write about Kirin again. Same goes for Asahi and Sapporo. It seems to be as difficult to introduce dark bread as ales in this country. It will change, I know!…
From Kabutoshimen by Toryu
I learned these stages of development a few years ago from my TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) teacher. He taught it as four levels of development in becoming a TCM master, but it goes with any trade or area of study.
The first stage is when you are in an incompetent awareness stage. When you start learning someting new you know that you are a beginner. You are humble and like a sponge, you absorb and learn everything new.
After some years of studying you are entering the incompetent unawareness state. The stage where you think you know it all. Be careful, many people get stuck in this level forever because of their ignorance. People say you are good, it is getting difficult to teach you because teaching can only go to a certain level, next you need experience and guidance. Maybe you heard about the “invisible training”? The more experienced you get the more transparent the teaching will be. Be careful that you don’t stop growing here or feed the ego to much. I’m sure you seen a few people that have some experience in other martial arts and after a few weeks or months they think they know Bujinkan.
When you get competent awared you have passed all the illusions and start seeing clearer. You know what you can do and can’t do. This is the stage when you are skilled in what you do, but hang on you’re not a master of the style yet. You need to always be aware of what you do to do it right.
The fourth level is when you are competent and unaware. In Bujinkan we often say it is the zero state. The art is so deep within us that we don’t need to think or remember any techniques at all. This is the level most people in Bujinkan is talking about. But I strongly believe you need to pass all levels. If you think you are at this level you could still very well be unaware of your incompitence.
You don’t need to think about this and try to figure out what level you are in. It’s no point doing that. Besides I remember Soke answering a question of what the highest level (in mikkyou, I think); he simply said there is no highest level. No matter how far you go you will never reach the end. This is also the 道 DOU, the path you have chosen to walk. …
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kent you win the prize!…
Last week Sensei spoke again of the importance of connection, using the examples of the joints in the body. The body has many joints which both connect all the parts together and allow it to move smoothly. The fewer joints, or connections, we have, the less smooth our movement will be. Demonstrating a technique, he said that he could do it this way because he was using all of the joints in his spine together, as if it were a rope.From The Magick & The Mundane » Bujinkan by Shawn Gray
The reason I can do the technique this way is that I’m using my spine as if it were a rope.
– Hatsumi Sensei
Last week Sensei spoke again of the importance of connection, using the examples of the joints in the body. The body has many joints which both connect all the parts together and allow it to move smoothly. The fewer joints, or connections, we have, the less smooth our movement will be. Demonstrating a technique, he said that he could do it this way because he was using all of the joints in his spine together, as if it were a rope.
The rope is an important tool in this years’ training theme as it demonstrates the connectedness of things. Sensei also mentioned that the rope is like one big joint working as a whole – it has no links or joints in it, such as a chain does for example, so it can be used in a supple and fluid manner. Perhaps another way of looking at it is viewing the rope as being composed of a billion tiny joints which have been amalgamated into one thing which works as a single unit. All of the separate parts have been united to create a new thing – and the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, as they say.
The word for joint in Japanese is ‘kansetsu’ (関節), and it is also interesting that the word for ‘indirectness’ is also pronounced ‘kansetsu’ (官設). I certainly felt both aspects of this when he allowed me to feel the technique. He was controlling me so lightly that it felt like I was being held in place by a single sheet of paper. It was the indirect manner in which he responded to my punch that allowed him to do it.
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Back after a long hiatus!From blogurl:henka.wordpress.com inpostauthor:ariesbudo - Google Blog Search by ariesbudo
The Kihon of martial arts is not technique and there is a distinct difference between Kihon and Kihon waza. If you do not have solid Kihon then the Kihon waza will result in nothing. The Kihon of Martial Arts is: Distance, Angles and Timing ...…From blogurl:henka.wordpress.com inpostauthor:ariesbudo - Google Blog Search by ariesbudo
The Kihon of martial arts is not technique and there is a distinct difference between Kihon and Kihon waza. If you do not have solid Kihon then the Kihon waza will result in nothing. The Kihon of Martial Arts is: Distance, Angles and Timing ...…From New Products from Budo Shop Store by New Products from Budo Shop Store
 | Title: Keiko26 - Kukan no Nawa (Taijutsu / Nawa / Kenjutsu /Bojutsu)
Instructors: Lauri Jokinen, Mariette v.d. Vliet, Mats Hjelm
Theme: Kukan no Nawa (Taijutsu / Nawa / Kenjutsu /Bojutsu)
Recorded: Recorded in Stockholm May 1-3th 2009
The instruction is in English
Format: NTSC, AAC Stereo, DVD/R- (it might not work on older DVD players! check your manual first!) approximately 120 Minutes playing time.
Lauri, Mariette and Mats are all known and respected Bujinkan teachers in their own country and also internationally. Here they taught individually and together at the end of they day.
Lauri from Finland taught Taijutsu with the feeling of rope, both with and without the actual rope.
Mariette from the Netherlands taught Bojutsu against sword, Taijutsu and Self defence against knife attacks.
Mats from Sweden taught Iainuki (drawing the sword), Kenjutsu, Bofuri (spinning with the long staff) and Taijutsu.
Watch the Trailer at the Budo Shop Community
About the instructosLauri - http:/www.shinden.fi Mariette - http://www.bujinkanbudokai.nl Mats - http://www.kesshi.com Note! The instructions is in English and there is no sub titles on this DVD
Skr239.00
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