This clip is one of my favorites.  It's absolutely ridiculous, but there are all kinds of things in this clip that actually happen in martial art schools today.  If you visit a school and you see any of these you should know it is probably not a good dojo ( Read more... )

Morio Higaonna
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Gogen Yamaguchi
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Our last post we talked a little about the Gi martial artists wear. Now we are going to talk a little about the belt that holds it all together.

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#8's advent is going to be a little bit about the clothes many martial artists wear. In Japanese, it is called a "keikogi".

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#7 Akiyama Shirobei Yoshitoki ( Read more... )

Today's topic of focus is ninjutsu. All three are modern ninjutsu practitioners. Two of the three are the heads of their styles. Their arts are relativity similar, but they focus on different aspects. The third is another bizarre character trying to pass of his "unique" ideas as part of mystical ninjutsu ( Read more... )

Today's post(or yesterday's really) is on a defferent spectrum that the last 2. He's a modern Martial artist by the name of George Dillman.


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For some reason Livejournal won't let me upload a photo so here's a link to follow. I hope this works.
Yesterday's and today's posts are tied together a bit. Kanyro Higashiona's student Chojun Miyagi is today's spotlight. Miyagi was born in 1888 in Naha Okinawa. At age 14 he met Master Higashiona and soon after became a "uchi Deshi". This means he ( Read more... )

I'm going to give this another try this year and hopefully be more consistent than last year.
This year I'm going to do little profiles on Martial art people both good and bad, and some techniques as well. It will mostly consist of people and techniques from the styles I study. I got the idea from my mom( elle_cosette ) and my sister (tishoo ) who did something ( Read more... )