o.k. intro to martial arts series

[sceptre1067]

NHK did about 4 of these...

First part on Iaido (my wednesday night thing...)

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and the first part on Yoshinkan Aikido (which I do an off shoot of on Saturdays w/ the daughters...)

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Though the english speaking presenter is being directed to act like a new guy, he does get in some good questions... the other two parts of the series are on Kyudo and

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[yuusui]

There is a fifth one now. I think it was about kyobudo, but I may have that spelling wrong. It was about more ancient fighting techniques largely weapon based.

[sceptre1067]

cool... I'll have to see if/when it gets posted as sometimes our NHK feed goes out. Looking up his blog, he did one on Sumo too. Which should be funny. :-)