My Bujinkan video exploring my own personal kuden during the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. That attack brought the United States into World War II. Then my own Grandfather was drafted fought against the Japanese in the Pacific.
Now that everyone was sick of me breaking and pinning them, we looked at 義鑑流 Gikan Ryū 其の六 Sono Roku. Luckily it was more breaking and pinning! In the basic form you bring your opponent down and pin with both knees. Then you lift his leg backwards to break the hip joint.
We jumped right in with 括飛 kappi. The Japanese text says 飛び退き、which means we leap away after the second strike. But I also included a tobi leading into the first strike. This makes everything very dynamic and makes for good warmup. Each 手刀 shutō strikes 雨戸 amado AKA uko. But you must hide the attack...
We warmed up with the 半棒術 hanbōjutsu kihon 合わせ投げ awase nage. First we reviewed what we studied last time. Then I added the cross grip version. This kihon has many lessons for weapon retention and taijutsu in general. I began class with 抑込 osae komi. This 坐型 suwari gata is a great intro to ground...
We warmed up with the 半棒術 hanbōjutsu kihon 合わせ投げ awase nage. We worked limiting the use of the upper body to achieve the result with positioning. And I shared a henka that skips to trap the opponent with his own grip. I began class with the 坐型 suwari gata 一激 ichigeki. This starts from 不動坐...
We warmed up with 手解 tehodoki. I shared some more advanced approaches using the lessons from Hatsumi Sensei that I am able to share. I began class with a continuation of our study of 破術九法 hajutsu kyūhō with 拳砕 ken kudaki. Crushing or destroying the fist. This is not a block… you attack the opponent’s...
We warmed up with 八方蹴り happō geri. We continue our study of 破術九法 hajutsu kyūhō with 蹴砕 keri kudaki. There are four basic forms to this kihon. The first is a 蹴り打ち keri uchi against a punch. It is important that after you kill the punch this way, you fill the vacuum this creates in...
We continue our study of 破術九法 hajutsu kyūhō with 八方蹴り happō geri. In Japanese the word happō should not always be taken literally to mean 8 ways. Hatsumi Sensei told us to turn the 8 on it’s side because happō really means infinite. In this kihon, we start with a basic set of kicks and...
We warmed up with 五行の型 gogyō no kata. Then I showed variations using hanbō 三心の構 sanshin no kamae. My training partners were very surprised by the henka I did with 無念無想の構 munen muso no kamae for 空の型 kū no kata. We continue our study of 破術九法 hajutsu kyūhō with 腰砕き koshi kudaki. This means breaking...