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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e154_Destroying_The_Grasp_And_Poison_of_Anger

During tonight’s class, we’ll be continuing our look at the Shinden-Fudo Ryu through one of the Shoden no Maki Kata and a few of it’s variations.

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04-04-2023 – Shinden-Fudo Ryu

We’ll be training with some of the points and concepts regarding fighting with Yawara sticks and alternatives, as I covered during this week’s Warrior’s Whiteboard Wednesday session! You can watch it here for reference before class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS84GfqWVPo

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03-31-2023 – Yawara Sticks & Alternatives