During tonight’s class, we’ll be focusing on a technique or three from the Shoden level of the Koto school. These techniques are especially important to those of you working on your requirements for Nidan (2nd degree black belt).  They will also be helpful to those working through or reviewing Module 3 skills and techniques.

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04-18-2023 – Koto Ryu Shoden no Maki Kata

Are the kata in our (or any) martial art, really usable for real-world self-defense? And, if so, how? Because the stiff, preset, choreographed models – whether done solo or with more than one student – don’t seem to fit what we’ve all seen when it comes to a real fight or self-defense attack. During this

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e156 – KUDEN! – How to REALLY Look at Your Kata!

We’ll be training with a major focus on unarmed defense vs knife attacks as I covered during this week’s Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday session. But, as my theme for the Black Belts and Shinobi-kai students this month is on the concept of ichi-go ichi-e (one moment/one chance), this will play a major factor into this class as well. You can

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04-14-2023 – Muto Dori

During this class, I teach you knife defense basics – the basic “rules” for surviving against an assailant armed with a knife or other edged weapon. (Rule #1 MAY surprise you!)

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Knife Defense Basics 101
04-11-2023

Other than identifying one kata or technique from another, is there anything special about their names? Can a kata’s name help you in mastering the technique or not? I mean, what’s in a name, right? We’re going to be exploring several perspectives on this, and more, during this week’s episode of KUDEN! Radio, the podcast

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e155 Hidden Lessons Within Kata Names?

We’ll be training with a major focus on using the elbows as I covered during this week’s Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday session. But, as my theme for the Black Belts and Shinobi-kai students this month is on both the Sanshin & kihon Happo AND the concept of ichi-go ichi-e (one moment/one chance), this will play a major factor into this class as

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04-07-2023 – Elbows

In the art of Ninjutsu, the use of the elbows for striking is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In this training, we’ll be going beyond striking to look at several uses of this important Ninjutsu body weapon, to add to your arsenal of weapons, as-well-as your ability to dominate a fight to defend

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How to Use Your Elbows in Ninjutsu

We’ve all experience not just the feeling of anger, frustration & even rage; but also suffered from the consequences of our thoughts, words, and actions spawned by that same emotion. During this episode of KUDEN! Radio, we’ll be taking a look at what our philosophical teachings say about the root causes behind anger, but also

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