This episode of Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday focuses on Battojutsu; specifically, the drawing and resheathing of the Katana for actual combat. In it, Dai-Shihan Miller outlines several critical pieces of the skill needed to beat another accomplished swordsman… NOT a mere amateur who thinks he knows how to use a sword!

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Battojutsu – Drawing and Resheathing the Katana for Combat

Tonight’s class will be looking at several training drills and exercises I learned and further developed along the way – all designed to help us develop important skills sets for handling the 4 attacker types I covered during last week’s Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday. If you haven’t seen or don’t remember that Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday you

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11-01-2022 Dealing with 4 Attacker Types

Here’s your chance to decide the topic(s), flow, and focus of this week’s episode! That means that I’ll be answering the questions that come in, both leading up to as well as during, this episode. So, if you haven’t done already done so…get those questions in so we have something to discuss…otherwise, this will be

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e132 – KUDEN! – Your Questions – My Answers! Part 2
10-28-2022 Friday Ninpo Masterclass

Adding to our look at how to beat the 4 different fighter types we looked at last episode, we’ll look at matching our 4 strategic defense modes to each as a primary and secondary approach to winning.

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Beating Different Fighter Types Pt 2

One of the things that I had to understand on my journey from ‘poor’ student to where I am now, is in mastering the problem-solving process. In this episode we’ll be looking at this with an eye on solving one of the major problems for a lot of students and those who want to be

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e131 – KUDEN! – The “Problem” of ‘Getting’ Training

Tonight’s class will focus on some of the sword (katana) skills contained within the training curriculum for those moving from Nidan to Sandan in the Warrior Concepts Mastery Program (about 8th to 10th dan in the Bujinkan / Japanese ranking system).

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10-25-2022 Sword (Katana) Skills for Nidan-Sandan
10-21-2022 Friday Ninpo Mastermind

Tonight’s class will focus on using single-edge knife (tantojutsu) skills, including the 10 kamae inherited from the Musashi Ryu-ha, as-well-as intermediate cutting and weapon maneuvering skills. This is an aspect in the training curriculum for those moving from Nidan to Sandan in the Warrior Concepts Mastery Program (about 8th to 10th dan in the Bujinkan / Japanese ranking system).

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10-18-2022 Tantojutsu