Isshin - Concentration the Art

From my study of the Sutrisno Aikido series, practiced against straight punches, technique number 9 parallels the Defense against the knife ...

To begin to talk about the study of knife in any form it first helps to get a real strong dose of reality. Before you go further watch the e...

If you’re going to really talk about ‘kobudo’ eventually you come around to blades of all sorts. Swords, Naginata, Kama, Knives. The Japan...

A long time ago in a different world……… The Burmese fighter was in the middle of melee, friend and foe mixing it shoulder to shoulder when h...

Before long in any internet discussion on kobudo the discussion often turns to which style of study is best, who’s doing the ‘real’ kobudo, ...

I don’t speak for all Isshinryu, only my own practice from my instructors training. It has been sufficient to keep me training over 30 years...

When we think about Kobudo today perhaps we imagine a day when that weapon in our hand had an actual purpose, either in sudden attack or sin...