In the past Aikijujutsu was practiced because of its difficult nature and knowledge only by noblemen. There is no certain historical reference about the appearance time or period of the art, because in old Japan they didn’t exercised the writings about practices, letting the knowledge past just among family of the villages. It is said that is originates from the sword art, Kenjutsu, where in the battle there were no other solutions for the defense than Sukima's Concept (emptiness). Sukima represents Aikijujutsu's basic foundation, and it symbolizes preventing opponent (initially having the sword) to reach his goal, using the concepts of the four elements, water, fire, air and land. From this principle arose the first concepts that today is constituted in Aikijujutsu.   It is very old art, based on harmony and utilization of the interior energy, known as Ki. Ki is the principle that governs Aikijujutsu's Universe, focusing in the studies to conduct and direct it. Much used by elderly and women because its wealth and effectiveness of utilizing no-force. Some consider Aikijujutsu as the art of fighting without fighting. It is based on locks, torsions and immobilizations to hinder the enemy body harmony.  The art name can be translated as:  Aiki: Harmony; love   Ki: Energy, vital force  Ju: Flexibility  Jutsu: Art  Since the Minamoto no Yoshimitsu, and even before, there has been lot of distinct ways in Aikijujutsu, that has resulted in different styles, like Daito Ryu Aiki JuJutsu, founded by Sokaku Takeda, and also Aiki JuJutsu studied in Kaze no Ryu, which differs from the others by many influences from the old Shizen people.   Takeda Aikijujutsu comes from the Minamoto's Lineage, who organized the techniques Aiki and founded it somewhere around XV century. The art appear through the circularity, just as in the universe, because the practitioner is a “sun”, that keeps its enemies in his orbit, without never ceasing their illumination. However, always after the day, comes to night, which hides the strongest rigid practice of the war among art, what we call Hidoi.   Because of the complexity of this system, the art is considered as one of the most noble arts. Its difficulty lies in the practitioner's interior harmony, not letting itself to be carried away by any feeling or emotion that would affect his technique.    Because of this, Aikijujutsu has become strategically important practice in Kaze no Ryu Bugei....Readmore

El Bajutsu es el arte de la equitación de Guerra. El antiguo bushi de las altas clases era, por definición, el 'gerrero montado', que iba a las batallas al frente de las tropas. Él, por tanto, dominaba el arte de la equitación en la época feudal, tal como indican las piezas de monturas de hierro y bronce encontradas en los dolmenes japoneses.El Bajutsu es considerado un arte aristocrática tan antigua como el periodo Heian. Mientras tanto, ella perdió mucha de su originalidad cuando la nobleza, modificando las antiguas prácticas de los clanes de guerra para formas más 'civilizadas' de métodos de violencia, tal que se convirtieron ciertas habilidades en artes marciales tan vulgares que, en 1159, un capitan de la guardia del palacio externo ni siquiera montaba un caballo, limitandose a estimular los guardias provinciales a gritar en caso de peligro.Mismamente en los periodos más remotos, la casa del bushi (esto es, la residencia central del clan al cual pertenecía) incluia grandes establos y areas externas donde los caballos eran mantenidos y entrenados, pero no hay como averiguar ni donde ni cuando el caballo fue introducido en Japón.Algunos estudiosos afirman que ese animal fue llevado por conquistadores inmigrantes a Yamato. De cualquier forma, el caballo usado en Japón por el 'guerrero montado' parece ser el típico poney asiático, similar al usado por chinos y coreanos, asi como por los caballeros mongoles, que realmente nacieron y convivieron con caballos. La especia japonesa probablemente es un cruce de varias linajes continentales, ya que esos animales eran frecuentemente citados en listas de regalos intercambiados entre la corte china y el emperador japones.En la época, el cruce de especies fue espcialidad de ciertos clanes, cada cual con su método propio. Los caballos del clan Nambu, particularmente, ganaron notable fama por todo Japón.Esos animales que eran apartentemente menores que las especies europeas o árabes, pero extremandamente fuertes, veloces y capaces de ejecutar maniobras altamente sofisticadas. Eran considerados como 'notoriamente de mal temperamento'; era preciso tener una mano experimentada para domarlos, principalmente en el tumulto de una batalla. El antiguo bushi, tal como el guerrero mongol, tenia mucha habilidad en domar ese animal. Vestía una armadura especial (uma-yoroi) cuando montaba. Era una armadura más ligera y funcional que la desarrollada en el siglo XVII, cuando la armadura se volvió predominantemente decorativa.Era básicamente la misma armadura que usaba cuando iba a pie, pero con la adición de elementos como el colin peculiar (horo), protectores de muslos (sune-ate) y de piernas (haidate), para compensar la desventaja de estar en posición elevada y, consecuentemente, volverse blanco facil de las ...Readmore

 Video Battojutsu documentary 1-2 Vdieo Battojutsu documentary 2-2 El Battojutsu es el arte del corte con espada, y está íntimamente ligada al Iaijutsu y al Kenjutsu. Su creación es atribuida a Hayazashi Jinsuke Shigenobu (1542-1621), que habría recibido una inspiración divina para desarrollarla como arte.  En cuanto el Iaijutsu estudia el desenvaine de la espada a partir de la ‘saya’ (vaina), el Battojutsu consiste en, un movimientos continuo sacar la espada y realizar el corte. La línea que separa esas disciplinas es muy fina. El Batto es entrenado de tres formas: individualmente (suburi), secuencias (Kata) y prueba de corte (tameshigiri). Es un arte que busca la máxima eficiencia, aliada a la velocidad de ejecución. Pero, es necesario resaltar que esta ‘velocidad’ llega naturalmente, después de exhaustivos años de entrenamiento. No se trata de realizar cualquier técnica de manera descuidada. Este es el típico error que tiende a desembocar en técnica pobre y, lo que es peor, en daños físicos. Primeramente, es preciso practicar lenta y cuidadosamente, para que se desarrolle la habilidad de manejo. Por esa razón, el principiante practica con un ‘Bokuto’, la espada de madera.  Varias técnicas de Batto fueron desarrolladas para abordar diversas situaciones en que los samurai se podría encontrar, y que lo llevasen a un enfrentamiento inesperado. En muchos casos, tales enfrentamientos ocurrían lejos de los campos de batalla, dentro del propio castillo de su señor. Tales habilidades eran esenciales al guerrero medieval de Japón....Readmore

The art of utilizing baton or other similar weapon, represent the transition point from not armed combat to the armed one.   The wood, natural or polished in all possible forms, has always served man with the implementation of his fight capacity. It has been one of the first materials used by the man in the manufacture of weapons.   In the sense of Japanese combat, however, the wood was not (at least during the feudal era) a primary material used in the weapon manufacture, but the iron and the steel. However it constituted a fertile, although secondary, dimension whose strategic potentiality was explored, developed and systematized until several methods started to take form.   Because of the fact of they are comparatively less dangerous for the practice than a blade, the staff and several other wooden weapons were usually used during a training in bujutsu schools, where the techniques of long weapons and swords were taught.   With time the relative use of the wooden weapons developed such, that the baton or wooden sword was used by the warriors also in a real combat.   The wooden weapons enabled to minimize lethal results when wished and in cases of exceptional ability, eliminated almost totally this accident by chance.   That fact helps to explain the wooden weapons popularity among members of the social class that detested the idea of blood spilling.   Priests, monks, travelers, common people and even poets used staff or another wooden instrument, many which are used even today with several purposes.   According to the dictionary, baton is an item with wide variety of length.   Specifically inside the military dimension of the Japanese culture, the stick or a similar wooden instrument was used primarily by bushi in training, which in real encounter would involve the use of bladed weapon.   Relation between the stick and the weapon became so intimate that the techniques and the strategy was virtually indistinguishable. Of this form, a skilled swordsman could use the arched baton imitating the sword with the same precision as a blade.   The techniques (jutsu) created to use effectively those wooden weapons, had been substantially the same when employed weapons of iron or steel. However each one was also developed as independent discipline, having its proper legacy and body postures.     The first specialization, naturally is represented within the art of the long stick with bo's thickness - Hasaku-bo or Rokushaku-bo. The second one is represented with art of jo or bo or Han-bo.   One of the particular methods in Jo's or Bo’s use is the one that is practiced also in current days. It is not as much as real art of combat - Jojutsu - but with the disciplines that employs Jodo's forms.   In Kaze no Ryu Bugei both Jo and Bo has its particularity in preservation its initial form, or as part in the war arts practice (jojutsu and b...Readmore

La larga historia y la compleja tradición del arte japonés de combate esta contenida en una gran variedad de formas, métodos y armas, que caracterizan de manera marcada sus especializaciones.  Cada especialización es conocida por el término ‘jutsu’, una palabra que puede ser traducida para nuestro idioma como ‘método’, ‘arte’ o mismamente ‘técnica’. El termino jutsu es un indicativo de que existe una misma manera característica en ese modo de ejecutar la acción que se produce.  Generalmente, se entiende que las prácticas en común descienden de otras artes, y que desarrollan también otras formas de prácticas y de procedimientos característicos de un nuevo jutsu. En el caso del contexto de la forma de combate japonés, sin embargo, una especialización consiste en algo metódico, sistemático y particular en el manejo de un arma.  Es muy común el método de identificar una especialización de combate por el nombre del arma que introduce su práctica. Esto es constatado, por ejemplo, en el Kenjutsu – el arte (jutsu) de la espada (Ken; realmente Ken significa filo, pero así es conocida tradicionalmente). Pero, no es nada raro, sin embargo, verificar que determinadas especializaciones poseen, como nombre de identificación, el significado u objetivo de su práctica, aunque no se utilicen armas, como Aikijujutsu – El arte (jutsu) de la armonía (ai) de la energía (ki) suave, flexible (ju). La suavidad es la manera de conducir la energía del enemigo en la aplicación de una defensa de combate, mismo que con movimientos firmes.  Frecuentemente, una especialización de combate posee sub-especializaciones, muchas de las cuales presentan a lo largo del refinamiento técnico, una variación perceptible y sensible si se compara al origen, acabando por volverse especializaciones y desvinculándose de su arte matriz.  Dentro del Bugei, más aun en el linaje de Kaze no Ryu, esa desvinculación no existe, por el simple motivo de su alteración no esta permitida. Todas las artes de combate de este linaje aun se mantienen fieles a las tradiciones de guerra. Esto explica la gran rigidez exigida al practicante o alumno interno, no siendo permitida la reprobación en la práctica de cualquiera de las materias. La falta en la perduración exacta de la práctica o método de aplicación de las técnicas es considerada grave, y el alumno pasa a ser excluido del arte del Bugei, no poseyendo más la autorización para practicar el arte en cualquiera de las escuelas o instituciones del linaje, ya sea en su país de origen como en el mundo.  Es verdad, entonces, que determinadas artes clásic...Readmore

Querer abandonar las ilusiones y poseer la verdad es también una ilusión. Esto significa que no debemos crear ilusiones o una verdad en nuestro espíritu por nuestra propia voluntad. Afirmar que la pobreza es infelicidad y que la riqueza es felicidad es un error.  Para el niño que acaba de nacer esto no existe y no tiene sentido alguno. Sin ilusiones él no conoce ni Dios, ni fantasmas, ni el infierno. En seguida, los hombres le enseñan el nombre de estas ilusiones del espíritu. Así su espíritu puro queda dañado, destruido. La luna es la luna, la montaña es la montaña, el océano es el océano. El satori, significa no-nacimiento y no-muerte, recompensa de la sabiduría más profunda y más elevada, que penetra inconscientemente en nuestro cuerpo y en nuestro cerebro.  Cuando nuestra respiración es correcta a nuestra postura y justa a nuestra consciencia exacta, y que permanece en nosotros como una semilla, la verdad de cada uno permanece inmutable hasta que este predeterminado el actuar inconsciente delante de los principios implantados. En este momento vivenciamos un momento con Dios y la eternidad del Satori.  El Densho Butsu no Kami antiguo fue fundado por los precursores del O-Chikara en la era Kamakura. Tres de aquellos estilos antiguos fueron mostrados como prueba de amor al prójimo (el arte del desapego). Ellos son llamados de: delicado trayecto, viaje del cielo y expansión de Infinito. Todos los tres estilos pueden ser aprendidos a través de las escuelas tradicionales de Bugei.  El Densho Butsu no Kami es un estilo de movimiento basado en el sistema de meridianos usado en la teoría médica japonesa. La mayoría de las formas de Densho Butsu no Kami es encontrada en la aplicación del raciocinio natural de las energías elementales y tiene por característica su transmisión a través de poemas.  Los poemas originaron los movimientos que componen las 33 formas de Densho Butsu no Kami.  Densho Butsu no Kami, tiene por traducción “Herencia de los Dioses”. Su atribución principal como propósito de la conservación de la salud del cuerpo y del espíritu, se debe después de la Era Tokugawa con la influencia del Ijutsu, o medicina estudiada por la casta mas pobre.  Las formas más populares de Densho Butsu no Kami son las que fueron autorizadas por los maestros de la Aldea del Sol (Tayo) a ser enseñadas. Todos estos estilos fueron llamados de acuerdo con la familia que los originó (Kawazuki, Tayozuki, Yamazuki y Yabuzuki)....Readmore

Inside the Bugei, Heiho means the strategy. It is a discipline that has been a part of the human history since the ancient times. Being crucial for all the nations that have been associated with wars, it has developed different forms, treatments and guidelines for every culture, and during evolution have obtained more efficiency in the results.   In East, there are many famous works about the subject, as "The War Art", from Sun Tzu, and "Go Rin in Sho" (The Book of the Five Rings) from Miyamoto Musashi. In Japan's history, where the wars and conflicts were constant, the strategy had an important role, assisting the military leaders to accomplish their best maneuvers.   Strategy, known as Heiho in Japan, was also called Bohiyako in some schools, that composed principles to handle the enemy's actions in battlefield. Particulary in Kaze no Ryu Bugei, Heiho is one of the most important matters inside the study, being continues part during the development of the student since Uchideshi's Graduation, which will be accomplished in such matter within eight years.   The military formation and the maneuvers that were used had a purpose to dread the opponent. In fact, the strategy permeates all the Bugei's physical disciplines in each applied technique. On the other hand, it is related to larger sphere as-well with the planning of the war tactics, when applied in the battlefield. In present world, where the wars have shifted to the commercial and corporative field, the strategy has remained its important role. In the administration and marketing area, the old war tactics and maneuvers are used even today, however seeing in a new economic reality.   In a simplified manner, strategy would be "what to do" and "why to do" something. It is the determination of using some tactic in a field. Several schools have considered the military strategy as an art of itself. In XVII century, such disciplines were divided as:   Heiho - military strategy;   Senjo Jutsu – tactical maneuvers and maneuvers of troops;   Soren - troops training and preparation (formation, movement etc.);   Gungaku - theory of the military art (study of its nature and principles).   Inside Bujutsus practice, any of the basic strategies of combat differ of the tactics used in the everyday. All of them are exhaustively trained by the practitioners, namely:    Attack – employing a technique before the opponent does it. It bases on initiative, in the element-surprise and in the speed.   Counterattack – applies a technique when the opponent initiates his attack. Bases on timing and the reaction using enemies attack.   Defense - neutralizes opponent's action, preventing him to reach his goal.   All of them have advantages and disadvantages, so in order to be successful, pupil must have detailed study to integrate several fact...Readmore

Hojojutsu es el arte de sujetar y amarrar un prisionero, usando una cuerda. Desarrollada en el Japón feudal por la clase de los samurai. La palabra “hojo” esta formada por los kanji “ho”, que también es pronunciado “tori”, y significa “capturar, sujetar”; y “jo”, que también es pronunciado “nawa”, y significa “cuerda”. La palabra “jutsu” significa “arte, habilidad”.  La principal razón de atar a alguien vino de la necesidad de sujetar, mantener vivo o impedir la fuga de un determinado individuo. Era el caso del periodo feudal en Japón, cuando el enemigo era capturado para obtener informaciones, o ser utilizado como cambio de alguien importante que fuera capturado por el otro bando. Hay varias otras razones por las cuales el hojojutsu era utilizado. Una de ellas era asegurar un prisionero cuando era presentado a alguna autoridad, en un eventual juicio por crímenes cometidos. Así, los japoneses se destacan haber desarrollado un sofisticado sistema del uso de la cuerda para amarrar personas.  El hojojutsu fue incorporado al conocimiento marcial del bushi y usado principalmente en la sangrienta era del ‘Sengoku Jidai’. La clase inferior de los oficiales, llamada de ‘okapiki’, aprendía formas básicas de hojojutsu bajo la supervisión de los oficiales de la clase samurai. La tarea de amarrar al prisionero o sospechoso era relegada a cargos inferiores.  Con la restauración Meiji (1887), el hojojutsu cayó en desuso. Es importante observar que los prisioneros eran amarrados de una manera específica, indicando su status social. Cada método de amarre indicaba la posición social que el prisionero ocupaba y el crimen que había cometido. Hay, dentro del hojojutsu, técnicas especiales para personas con brazos fuertes o capaces de deshacer los nudos, de modo que, cuanto más se movía la persona atada, más se tensaba.  La cuerdas en general eran hechas de lino, seda o cáñamo, En el periodo Edo, los colores de las cuerdas indicaban el crimen o el status de la persona. Por ejemplo, la cuerda blanca era usada para crímenes menores, en cuanto que la cuerda azul era utilizada para crímenes graves. Si la persona fuese alguien importante, era usada la cuerda violeta. Si fuese de clase baja, se usaba la cuerda negra.  Durante ese periodo, ser amarrado con una cuerda pasándola por el cuello era extremadamente humillante. Algunos consideraban peor que la muerte.  Varios tipos de nudos son utilizados, con finalidades que van desde apretar, estrangular o atar un prisionero a otro. El Kaze no Ryu Bugei posee el Hojojutsu en su amplio programa, pero otras escuelas también desarrollaron esta modalidad, como la Kujiwara Ryu, Chokuji Goden Ryu,...Readmore

Iaijutsu is the art of unsheathing the sword. Today it is practiced to forge the self-discipline, to refine the coordination, and to improve the body posture. In the Iaijutsu the exactness of the techniques is a crucial element.   Some versions affirm that the sword arts that we know today started probably with Iizasa Choisai, the founder of Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu. This school included the use of many weapons, like the lance, and the shuriken throwing.   A great part of the arts curriculum consists of the fast drawing and in immediate use of the sword in the self-defense. This section of the study is called Iaijutsu.   Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu (1542-1621) has the reputation of receiveing a divine inspiration, that led into the development of the art called Muso Shinden Jushin Ryu Battojutsu.   Batto just means "cut with the sword". One thing that was common in both schools, as in many other sword schools that predominantly concentrated to the cut with the sword, was that this art was practiced in kata form.   How can a martial art really be effective when it is practiced only through kata, against an imaginary opponent?   This is a much more difficult question than it seems. The problem starts with trying to define meaning 'effective', considering that 'result' that is wished for. Naturally, in kata there is no opportunity to test the technical effectiveness as it is for instance in kenjutsu, because there is simply no opponent to modify your actions.   In the sense of the modern world martial arts, it is easy to treat superficially the traditional sword arts of and to criticize them as ineffective, simply because the times have chaged and sword do not find any usage in present time as it was in the time, when they were created.   The martial artist should avoid the combat. This has been explained thousands of years even in Sun Tzu-s “The Art of War” and later by many strategy masters. The martial artist that train entirely and correctly with a guidance of the sensei, will develop an ability to recognize difficult situations and of avoids them before they transform in a problem. This will minimize the conflict, or keep a body-mind in a state that does not offer opportunities for an aggressor. This is a sense of Iaijutsu.   Kanji (character) ' I ' can also be read as 'itte' and ‘ai' as 'awasu.' In the sentence awasu do ni do kyu do itte do ni de Tsune ' it means: "Wherever you go and whatever you do, be always ready". To be ready doesn’t only mean to have aware state of mind, but if necessary, ability to use decisive technique to conclude a conflict. With a sword, naturally, it would be the mortal cut. Therefore, Kata's Study is very complicated....Readmore

Rekishi no Jo – History of Jo     It is believed that the art of the shorter stick was developed by the great swordsman Muso Gonosuke about four centuries ago, after a defeat in combat by the famous Myamoto Musashi, who used wooden swords (bokken, bokutō).   According to the history, Gonosuke withdrew to a Shinto temple and, after long period of arduous training, purification and meditation, developed a Jo style denominated Shindo Muso Ryu. After this he defied Musashi to a new confrontation. The method created by Gonosuke enabled to penetrate the strong posture of Musashis.   Gonosuke Sensei practiced firmly until he developed 20 basic blows that later were improved and formed to basic forms (Kata).   Jo Jutsu basic katas which later have made part of Jo Do(name adopted by some schools), include the sequences utilization with other weapons, like Bo (long stick), Bokken and Tanto(knife)....Readmore

  Video Jujutsu Torite Documentary Video Jujutsu Mugen Mukeru 1 Video Jujutsu Mugen Mukeru 2   Tal vez esta sea la más popular de todas las artes englobadas en el programa antiguo de Bugei.  El Jujutsu, durante siglos, fue el gran arma secreta del ejército japonés, que la mantuvo en su programa hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial.  Su origen se pierde en el tiempo dejándonos rastro de que haya surgido en la India o mismamente haya venido de los indígenas japoneses.  De una forma u otra, el arte suave o flexible, como es traducido el Jujutsu, difiere mucho de la forma presentada en la época contemporánea.  Tal arte pasó por una reformulación en la era Meiji donde fue incluida en las artes de Gendai Budo o Formas de las Artes Modernas.  El arte creada por Jigoro Kano, denominada Judo – Camino suave, años después, también volvió a ser llamada como Jujutsu.   El Jujutsu tradicional está incluido en el programa de Koryu, que conserva las formas clásicas.El antiguo estaba dirigido a la manutención del pensamiento vivo del bujutsu como propiedad defensiva en campos de batalla. Siendo así, no puede ser considerado deporte ni tampoco moderno.   El jujutsu que el mundo occidental conoció después de la era Meiji es lo que denominamos Gendai Budo.  Referencias directas de los registros de las mayores escuelas de Bujutsu y en las crónicas del antiguo Japón indican que mucho de los métodos de combate sin armas fueron desarrollados y aplicados por los japoneses durante la “larga noche feudal” y un número significativo de estos métodos se volvieron importantes en el entrenamiento del guerrero.  Por definición un método de combate desarmado representa un modo sistemático e ingenioso de aplicar el cuerpo humano como arma.  Este tipo de combate sin la utilización de armas fue adoptado, en primer orden, para la resolución de los problemas de confrontaciones violentas.  Combates armados y desarmados ha coexistido desde el principio de la historia suplementando, integrando, o sustituyendo el uno al otro de acuerdo con la demanda del tiempo, lugar y circunstancias.  De hecho, la observación de que el cuerpo humano podría operar con habilidad en combate como un arma primaria, y que la maestría de sus elementos y funcionalidades sería capaz de hacer que un hombre subyugase otro hombre violentamente, siempre que lo aplicará en defensa propia.  La Ogawa Shizen Kay, que es la progenitora de la Sociedade Brasileira de Bugei y la Europan Bugei Society, es tradicional en la conservación de los Katas iniciales y las formas establecidas de Koryu.  Saburo Ogawa, conocido como gran samurai de rara habilidad, enseño a sus...Readmore

Inside the Bugei study, Kakuto no Bujutsu represents the real form of war.   Kakuto means "to fight, to grab or combat"; and Bujutsu, "war art". Afterwards, it was defined by the masters of this art as : "art aimed towards the reality of war".   At the origin, the war techniques differ from the situations that appear during the practice inside a dojō. Because of this the traditional schools kept inside their "Okuden"  curriculum the real forms and applications aswell.   Kakuto no Bujutsu had its ascension mostly in the Tokugawa era, when the wars and conflicts were more constant.   The psychological formation inside the studies of Kakuto no Bujutsu enable the practitioner to perceive the reality of war, which is differentiated of the practice from a teacher, instructor or master.   The traditional form addressed to war reality, includes the utilization of any object that is available to end a battle. In this way, the war does not have rules or commandments which enable usage of any weapons available.   Among the most famous names related to Kakuto no Bujutsu, is Takuji Sato, who lived at the end of the era Tokugawa, during transition period into Meiji. He restored years later Koryu's Art from transforming them into Gendai Budo.   Bujutsu, in its essence, has always been concerned about the reality inside its teachings, and perhaps this fact could most explained with the creation of so many Ryus, since every day the learning was executed and taught different way from its initial form.   Some schools chose teaching the traditional, unalterable form, and they were afterwards recognized by maintaining the tradition and culture.   Other preferred to teach Kakuto no Bujutsu as a free way.   There are few schools and styles which still have its peculiar forms and characteristics, that indicate their uniqueness and prevent frauds.   No matter how much they have evolved, the applied methodology in Kakuto no Bujutsu have remained the same.   Takuji Sato was a student of Kei Ogawa, who composes the genealogical tree of the SBB and EBS. ...Readmore

This art could be translated literally as "art of enviroment". Taught by the old masters, the art of Kankyo Jutsu aimed to utilization of environment as a weapon.   It emphasized to the specific place and tactics where the encounter took place.   The principle of Kankyo Jutsu occurred due to the need in combats in forests, towns, villages, stables etc.   The age of Tokugawa was marked by the constant evolution of the war.   Several Ryus developed their teachings for the understanding of the space during the conflict moment.   The idea that a warrior should always be ready obliged the samurai class to develop some strategic principles that would be applied in determined place.   Many important victories attributed knowledge that was added to the arts as Heiho, Bajutsu, Kyujutsu among others.   Without a doubt, in a battlefield, won better prepared army.   Such art was very used by the secret personnel who exercised the protection of Ieyasu Tokugawa who used attributes provided by environment, that facilitated the retreat of the leader in case of an unexpected war.   Kankyo Jutsu was the main weapon used by great strategists....Readmore

Este es el primer programa de Kenjutsu de Kaze no Ryu Bugei ICHI BAN NO KEIKO SAISHO NO RENSHU     KAMAE  jodan no kamae   gedan no kamae   gyaku gedan no kamae   shin no kamae   haso no kamae   sokumen jodan no kamae   hidari gedan no kamae   in no kamae   kogasumi no kamae   o-gasumi no kamae  tsubame no kamae  sagi no kamae   yuki ho kamae   gedan yuki no kamae      SAISHO NO RENSHU  ipponme suburi ipponme sotai dosa  ipponme awase   ipponme kumitachi   nihonme kumitachi     KIRI NO RENSHU   kirioroshi   kiri otoshi   makko giri   makko giri gedan  makko giri chudan  makko giri jodan  maki giri  kesa giri  gyaku kesa giri  ichimonji giri  morote giri  kote giri   ude giri   ashi giri   hiza giri     TSUKI NO RENSHU   tsuki chudan   tsuki jodan...Readmore

Here you have some techniques include in the program for the first exam for the pass from kohai (the one who is being under proving time) to Seito. Tai Sabaki Gikoo  Mae Sabaki  Ushiro Sabaki  Irimi Sabaki  Mawari Sabaki   Uchi Gikoo  Te Gikoo  Tsuki  Ushiro Te Tsuki  Mawashi Te Uchi  Tegatana Uchi  Gyaku Te Tsuki   Yubi Gikoo  Go Yubi  Nukite   Hiji Gikoo  Mae Enpi Uchi  Yoko Enpi Uchi  Mawashi Enpi Uchi  Mae Tate Enpi Uchi   Keri Gikoo Mae Geri (Takai, Chukan, Kabu) Mawashi Geri (Takai, Chukan, Kabu) Yoko Geri (Takai, Chukan, Kabu) Kakato Geri (Takai, Chukan, Kabu) Ushiro Geri (Takai, Chukan, Kabu)    Kumi Uchi Gikoo Mae Morote Otoshi (Takai, Chukan) Mae Geri O Soto Gari (Takai, Chukan, Kabu) Mawashi Geri O Soto Gari (Takai, Chukan, Kabu) Yoko Geri O Soto Gari (Takai, Chukan, Kabu)    Kamae Gikoo Ai Hami Gyaku Hami Yoko Hami    Ukemi Gikoo Mae Ukemi Yoko Ukemi  Ushiro Ukemi ...Readmore

El Ketsugo que significa “La unión con el Todo”, forma parte del Seishin no Jutsu, conjuntamente con el Mokuso no Jutsu (arte de la concentración).  Algunos movimientos básicos componen esta práctica que promueve el desarrollo y el direccionamiento del Ki (energía vital), a través de técnicas milenarias de respiración y posturas.  Es de relevante importancia que la lengua este colocada en el paladar superior durante la inspiración para promover el enlace necesario al Ten no Hashi – Puente al cielo – que hace conexión entre la energía del cielo y de la tierra a través del eje de la columna.  En Ketsugo, es esencial hacer relajamientos y ejercicios para liberar la mente de las actividades diarias.  Existen cuatro respiraciones básicas que componen el Ketsugo. Se basan en los cuatro elementos y varían en contracciones y relajaciones dentro de la respiración (iki), aplicados en la inspiración (suikomu) y expiración (haku) durante la práctica de los movimientos.  -         Hi no Iki – Respiración del Fuego, consiste en contraer todo el cuerpo, al maximo posible todos los musculos, durante la inspiración y la expiración.-         Mizu no Iki – Respiración del Agua, consiste en inspirar y expirar manteniendo todo el cuerpo en estado de relajación.-         Kuki no Iki – Respiración del Aire, consiste en inspirar contrayendo el cuerpo y expirar de forma relajada.-         Tsuchi no Iki – Respiración de la Tierra, consiste en inspirar de forma relajada y expirar contrayendo todo el cuerpo....Readmore

El Kobujutsu es un arte que engloba el conjunto de armas estudiadas en las antiguas prácticas de guerra. Conocido actualmente como Kobudo (camino de las armas), por las artes que componen el Gendai Budo, en determinadas regiones era la referencia para todas las armas que no formaban parte de la noble clase de las daisho (cuya traducción literal, a partir de los kanji “ooki” o “dai”, significa “grande” y “sho” o “chisai”, “pequeño”), compuesta por la Katana, Wakizashi, Aikuchi o Tanto.  Así, en algunas regiones el Bo, el Jo, la Yari, la Naginata, el Sai, el Jutte, la Tonga (especie de porra), la Kama (especie de hoz utilizada para cortar arroz) entre otras, estaban clasificadas de la misma forma como parte integrante del Kobujutsu.  En determinada artes, como el aikido, karate-do entre otras, todo lo que se refiere a técnicas que utilizan alguna especie de arma es llamado como kobujutsu, que podría ser traducido por los kanji usados como referencia, como “arte de la guerra antigua”. “Ko” significa viejo, “bu”, guerra y “jutsu”, arte.  Dentro de las artes clásicas que conservan el concepto de Koryu, el Kobujutsu es un término que se refiere a armas de características diferentes de las utilizadas por los samurai.  La mayoría de estas armas fueron heredadas de los agricultores y rebeldes que, en el transcurso del periodo de la prohibición del uso de la espada, improvisaron utensilios agrícolas como armas de defensa, como es el caso de la tonga, nunchaku, etc. Tales armas después pasaron a formar parte del programa de determinadas escuelas.  En la actualidad, las informaciones sobre el Kobujutsu son muy amplias, habiendo varias versiones y análisis que no establecen una verdadera y única.  Algunos afirman que el Kobujutsu surgió en Okinawa; otros, por la propia evolución de las guerras. Otros atribuyen la influencia china. Los libros occidentales que inicialmente trataron del Kobujutsu citan apenas algunas armas, que quedaron conocidas por los occidentales y años después se volvieron protagonistas del Kobujutsu, pero muchas otras fueron utilizadas en el periodo Tokugawa y Meiji.  El tessen, o guisen (abanico de hierro), ono (especie de hacha) y la kiseru (pipa) son algunas de ellas....Readmore

Traducido literalmente como método de los huesos, Koppo es la forma peculiar estudiada en las artes que tratan el ataque a las articulaciones.  Estudiado en la Edad Media por las escuelas más tradicionales, el Koppojutsu, o simplemente Koppo, puede ser traducido en una versión de adaptación para Occidente como ataque a los huesos.  Característico del Aikijujutsu y Jujutsu, el Koppo es, sin duda, una de las materias de mayor eficiencia estudiada dentro del amplio programa del Bujutsu.  Dentro de la actualidad, encontramos Subsumo Motoshima como gran conocedor de las formas tradicionales guardadas en secuencias de formas denominadas como Kata.  Motoshima Subsumo es hijo de Chieko Motoshima, hija de Noriuki Mizumatsu, gran conocedor de la técnica de Koppojutsu.  Mizumatsu fue famoso en su provincia por organizar las formas y determinarlas en una nomenclatura que no existía.  Según Motoshima Sensei, son todo diez katas que se constituyen de diez secuencias cada uno, que corresponden a los ataques más frecuentes de la época.  La European Bugei Society conserva la instrucción de las diez secuencias básicas de Koppojutsu en su grado exigido para exámenes de Shoden.  Ogawa Sensei estableció a Motoshima Sensei como la mayor autoridad aun viva del Koppojutsu.  Ogawa Sensei que siempre conservó las mismas formas de Koppojutsu, permitió que Motoshima Sensei, en su visita a Brasil, reorganizase las formas enseñadas por el Bujutsu en Brasil....Readmore

The word Koryu in Japanese origin could be literally translated as an "old flow", when there are referred to the old schools, styles or traditions and not necessarily only in the war tradition.   Ko - old Ryu - character of Chinese origin which in Japanese is read "nagare", that means to flow. In the same way, it means also Ryu as a style.   There are many versions where koryu is erroneously translated as a form of bujutsu, however its initial form of preservation was directed to the combat itself. Bujutsu is one of the several terms used in describing classical Japanese martial or technical arts.   Unfortunately there is not an exact definition for the classical martial arts. Some define dividing the martial arts between classics and modern starting from 1876, when Japan promulgated the act of prohibiting the swords use (Haitorei). Other prefer to use the term koryu bujutsu only for VI century arts or in older traditions.   The classical traditions were developed in battlefields by bushi- warriors, who who valued the art by it usefulness not by its beauty. All school among Koryu follow a lineage which is represented by a Soke, possessing Menkyo Kaiden, where are named the tradition founder and all the predecessors of the lineage.   However in each school there were variations inside the classical forms in their curriculum, because several followers of old schools formed new styles that arose as refinement forms of already existing ones. In current Japan, there are few schools which still have managed to conserve their original form of execution.   Lots of new styles were created and changed. Such fact remains because of the human natural evolution, that in time, does not adopt the concepts of previous times and because times have changed and there have been a need to adopt techniques according them. In Koryu schools, there is only one master who in each generation chooses a successor. There are also schools that are not worried with this, but just transmit the correct form of the past to present. This way generates a different possibility, that puts subordinated technically at the same condition as a central master. The transmission system in Koryu schools is centralized in its forms, where master gives transmission directly to the student. Any school that has abolished such system of methodology cannot perhaps be called Koryu, but just executes, in their program curriculum part of techniques trained in Koryu.   In Japan there are several styles that are considered as Koryu. Koryu techniques are initially conserved as a form that historically in some period assured the victory in a battlefield. Perhaps this would be the biggest characteristic of Koryu's techniques.   Some schools of gendai-budo (modern budo forms) still claim for the title Koryu aswell. Certainly these modern arts have a connection with the old forms, but most of the cases, thay can’...Readmore

Kyujutsu is the art of arrow and bow, that has been Japanese warriors main weapon during many centuries during Japan history.   About the origins of this art, a theory affirms that it probably came to Japan via China through the famous archer Yoyuki, called by the Japanese as "Shogun of the divine with arch". Other hypothesis indicates to the Ainus, who were recognized as skilled archers in hunting and in the war. Utilization of bow and arrow in Japan, was linked to the war, hunting, to the sport, to the spiritual practice and rituals.   Kyujutsu lost its strategical military importance after the introduction of firearms, however it is still considered as one of the most noble arts. It is a highly developed art, with a complex system of techniques and practices, that initially had great variety of styles. In time, many of these styles intermixed with each other leaving only few major styles. According some legends Kyujutsu is linked also to the birth Japanese nation.   After Japan's unification in the Tokugawa period, Kyujutsu became a mental and spiritual discipline, practiced separately from the battlefields under austere guardianship of instructors, who acted more as spiritual advisers than as war masters. The given name to this discipline was Kyudo - the way to the bow and arrow. It is practiced the same way in present day world, although the form has been modified from the original. Kyudo gave to the practice of bow and arrow a new dimension, as coordinating instrument that raises practitioner's personality to the higher physical, mental and spiritual level. It is based on the philosophical principles of Zen-buddhism's andTaoism.   There are countless legends concerning about of great warriors who were excellent archers in the old times. The most famous is Minamoto no Tametomo and Nasu no Yoichi.   According these legends Minamoto no Tametomo had and exceptional force and statue. His bow was so powerful that needed five normal men to bend. One of most famous deeds was sinking a ship with one arrow shot.   Nasu no Yoichi is well-known by his extraordinary ability demonstrated in Yashima's Battle where, answering to a challenge shooting mounted on a horse, ahead from both armies that were faced on the beach. He hit a fan that was put to the top mast of a ship, anchored about 70 meters from the coast. In fact, it was during the Heian period when Kyujutsu developed as war practice used by the horsemen. The basic equipment of Kyujutsu consist of bow and arrow (kyusen), cylindrical target (makiwara) and purse for arrows (ya-bako). There were several kind and sizes of bows (yumi) and arrows (ya), each one with a specific purpose.   The ceremonial use of bow developed almost simultaneously with the military use. The consecrated ceremonies that commemorate the Japanese nation foundation included aristocratic contests in ability with bow and arrow, supporting strongly...Readmore

Kumi Uchi is the part of studies that concentrate on grappling(holds and stranglings). It is very old fighting art with a purpose to take the opponent to the ground. Beeing one of the wealthiest arts in its actions and exercises, it possess great efficiency in the binomial body-mind development.   In the origin Kumi Uchi can be considered as one of the most primitive art studied in schools curriculum. Some masters tell that the art started with the beginning of the human evolution, when the specific techniques were unknown and the only purpose was to crab the enemy. However its practice as a war art came to scene later.   As it was mentioned before, Kumi Uchi techniques base on grappling and are constantly developed along years. One of the stronger characteristic of Kumi Uchi is the aggressiveness.   The art name can be translated as:    Kumi: Hug, hold    Uchi: strike   Beeing very complex art, Kumi Uchis techniques and immobilizations, are studied with a lot of tenacity in foot, however with a greater emphasize to grappling. Inside Taijutsu, Kumi Uchi is the oldest form, orientated to grappling, throws, locks and strangulation, for concluding the combat as fast and effective as possible.   Japan's geography has always played important role in the development of the war techniques (very rough geography, 80% of the country terrain is mountainous). That demonstrates that there was a great tendency for the combats to grapple and end up to the ground, letting the nature if it become the weapon itself.    In Hokkaido's Region, some villages arrived to the extreme using wild animalsin their training, like bears, who had trimmed nails and the tied jaws. The idea to overcome the size and weight of an opponent was constant during development of the techniques. The need for improvement has brought evolved combat techniques for short distances to current days. ...Readmore

Known as Manhiri Kusari or Kusari Fundo, chain weapon with attached weights to both sides of it end, meant for knotting, strangling and crushing the adversary.   In the Medieval Age it was believed that kusari fundo was able to give a force of a thousand men, because of its technical ability. In this way, it was very used in the attacks and defenses in the short and long distances.   It could be said, that exist forms for three types of kusari : short, average and long.   Kusari, made of steel. appeared to the dimension of bujutsu as one of the first Japanese weapons.   Its combat application, alone or combined with some other weapon, is considered to be very old.   Some authors believe that it was widely used during the castles defense. Kusari is also seen with the strong connection with Kama –scythe with several thicknesses.   Weapons where are combined chain and the scythe are known as Kusari-kama and their primary objective was to paralyze opponent's sword or to direct its current direction back to the enemy while its other part was free for mortal blows.   One of the specialists in kusari-kama was Yamada Shinryukan, who won lot of encounters with this weapon before he met his own end by the hands of Araki Mataemon. ...Readmore

Naginata was commonly used weapon in Japanese history, where the forge, construction and the polish are made similary as in the Japanese traditional sword.   This weapon is about two meters of height. Although naginata was used also by samurai, traditionally it was made for the women samurai to defend the castles during the men absence.   The old naginata was wide, with the long curved blade. In time it tended to be shorter, smaller and to have less curvature in the blade. There are signed and not signed blades.   Neither all naginata own the sword kind polish (San-dan-maki), however, all of them own some kind for reinforcement.   Naginata blades were usually cut, forged to their forms again and polished to make wakizashi shobu-zukuri or unokubi-zukuri styles.   Generally tsuba in naginata is small, being in same diameter as seppa. However, some naginata tsuba have the same size and appearance as the swords.   Nakago of a naginata has usually only one mekugi, but there are also items with two nakago-Ana.   Naginata with similar blades to of the swords were called nagamaki-naoshi. They have yokote as the katana has, while naginata does not have it. They were used during the Kamakura era and at the beginning of the Muromachi era. ...Readmore

For a country as Japan, which is an archipelago, ability to swim is the same natural and necessary as it is to breathe. For the warrior, it was an art that could and, in fact, was used in combat. Often the battlefields were intermixed with rivers, lakes and fields. Many important battles occurred close to water. Therefore, since old times, the man has taken advantage of the possibilities that water has offered to him. In modern times and with the invention of special equipment, the man could dive with ease below water and to explore the world there. However, in ancient times, it was not possible.   There was need to develop the conditions for medieval man that provided combating in water as-well.   Our curriculum included swimming, floating, diving and other techniques that, in principle differentiated from each other. As such techniques were improved, the man developed specific forms of movements in the water that gave him conditions of winning the enemy in this environment, armed or not. In Mukai Ryu there were exercises that consisted holding paper fan without getting it wet, when crossing a river. Other schools, like Kankai Ryu, developed swimming techniques in open sea - these included swimming with a powerful leg strokes(maki-ashi).   Later with this technique, spies and other mercenary classes obtained success in their daily duties.   In the current days, we know little about this art, and everything there is, are adaptations left from historical principles that constituted art what we know today as Suiren.   Studious believe that, in the current days, what we know as Suiren is a new form, which tries to repair the original one.   Anyway, compared the studies of maneuvers of this old art with the techniques of modern swimming, we can see that these are obsolete, having their value only as specific study inside the tradition.   Ogawa Sensei, precursor of the Bugei in Brazil, just taught four maneuvers in kata form, which he learnt fromt the Saburo Ogawa. ...Readmore

In the Japanese language shuriken could be translated as:   Shu – hand Ri(also could be read as ura )– back, in the middle of, in, invert, interior, palm, behind, lining, wrong side. Ken (also could be read tsuguri)- sword, blade, watch hand.   There are two basic kinds of shuriken: Bo shuriken (long and fine blades) and hira shuriken, or shaken (flat blades, or in star form).   The basic method of throwing shuriken varies from a school to another, the main differences are in the form of blades and their use. According to text given to the school by Susumo Motoshima sensei, the original throwing method for the small blades comes from Ganritsu Ryu, founded by Matsubayashi Henyasai, a professional warrior around 1624. This school originated Katono, or Izu Ryu, founded by a Sendai's samurai, called Fujita Hirohide of Katono, also known as Katono Izu, student of Matsubayashi.   According to Motoshima sensei, this was the style that influenced Bugei's main Schools, being the original way of practices studied in Kaze no Ryu Bugei.   He was pioneer in throwing needles, about 10cm long and 20g weight, many of which he used in his hair. The needle was held between middle finger and the pointer and thrown as a modern dart, to the opponent's eyes. It was said that he could shoot two needles simultaneously. According to Iwasaki sensei there were many styles that arose from old Japan, as:   Enmei Ryu The famous warrior Miyamoto Musashi is known as a founder of this school, that studies throwing of a blade 40cm long, probably “tanto” (knife). There is a duel in histroy between Musashi and Shishido, expert in Kussari-kama (weapon developed for defense against the sword). When Shishido pulled its chain, Musashi drawed a dagger and threw it to the Shishidos chest.   Shirai Ryu Shirai Ryu was founded by Shirai Toru Yoshikane, born in 1783 in Okayama. At 8 years old, he started to learn sword art with Ida Shimpachiro in Kiji Ryu, and in age 14 he changed to Tokyo and trained daily at Nakanishi sword school of Itto Ryu, and started to teach in Okayama at age 23. For nine years, his fame spread and he had more than 300 students, but he still had continues doubts about his ability. In the subsequent years, he returned Edo several times to train with his companions, until eventually reached a kind of “larger revelation” and found peace with its technique. After this revelation, he added the name Tenshin to its art. Throwing the blade and the style that he taught was well-known by Shirai Ryu. Shirai Ryu blade was a metal spit from 15 to 25 cm long and 6mm of diameter.   Negishi Ryu Negishi Ryu was founded by Negishi Nobunori Shorei, successor of Joshu Anaka during last days Tokugawa Shogunate. A showing a promising handling of shinai, Negishi became student of Kaiho Hanpei in Hokushin Itto Ryu . He also studied in other schools as Araki Ryu, and also the l...Readmore

Sojutsu or Yari Jutsu, the art of lance, can historically be compared with Naginata Jutsu(art of polearm with curved blade).   Both of them were practiced in countless different styles and where were also sub-specializations of the blades long and short variation depending of the length of wood behind them.   We can also find strongly modified techical traces from yari and naginata in Jojutsu. .   Yari appeared initially with the use of the bamboo (Take-Yari) and later there were blades for a more efficient result in the battles. Even with sword popularity growth during the middle of the Japanese feudal period and the preceding period (Meiji restoration) the lance was always present in the official ceremonies as well as it was always carried by the warriors who escorted provincial lords during travels. Yari remained in important position inside the clans arms.   The Japanese lance has been used from the start of times, but usually not with the intention of throwing. Some of yari were done by traditional sword-smiths, and, because of this, they had similar construction with the swords. Another ones made for less skilful forgers were made poorly, without tempered material (didn’t had hamon). Yari was a weapon used by samurai and by the common foot-soldier (ashigaru), where richest used the ones made by smiths and poorer used so called mass production.   There are many yari variations. Most well-known are: Su Yari (with straight blade) and Kama Yari (with another blade crossing horizontally the first blade ). Extra long  Su Yari is called Omi no Yari. Also Kama Yari possesss particularitities in terminology in case if the blade that crosses the blade straight line possesss identical blade in other side as-well. That kind of yari is called Jumonji Yari.   Katakama Yari owns a perpendicular blade to the blades straight line (only in one side) or for both sides, however this other blade differs in size.     Kikuchi Yari (relatively rare) has only one edged side which usually is made of Kira zukuri or Shobu zukuri style. This yari style comes from the family Kikuchi, from Higo, during Nambokucho's Era (1336-1392). Kikuchi Yari has many proportions in its size.   The warriors who were lancers in the battles has been taught professionally in different bujutsu schools. In time, with the usage of new tactics and weapons their importance vanished and this type of soldiers almost disappered. ...Readmore

Taiso (pronounces 'tai-sō') is an arising art from the old Japan, which means "exercise" in general, but its definition extends to the most profound concepts of energetic physiology and health.   Physical aspect of Taiso   Taiso aims to the body movements through angles provided by person, giving margin to aerobic and anaerobic exercises according to the need of a practitioner. It is also based on the isometria as a factor of utmost importance for the vitality, without never leaving breathing aside.   Affecting all the muscles, tendons and ligaments, a beautiful body is formed.     Historical overview                 During the Kamakura era in Japan, there was a transformation period for a people who lived under constant battles and inhabited in extremely cold and mountainous region (today Hokkaido).   The need to seek the evolution, both for body and the mind, these people found their own way of exercising.     Having the biotype characterizing the specific period, shizen(forest people) integrated all the nature components, developing exercises based on breathing as absorption of KI (vital energy), with postures and movements that embraced both the animals and nature in one.   With the observation of all these elements, they discovered that each animal, plant and all the other attributes of the nature, are in motion and harmonized with the universe differently form the human being. They started to reflect and to copy everything what they saw, acquiring the same capacities, as the agility of a tiger, flexibility of a bamboo, the force of a river, the balance of the heron etc.     Among these practices, there were developed several sequences, today known as methods that, besides simple exercises, became a therapy, meditation and even a medicine, having the capacity of controlling problems as stress, hypertension, cardiovascular and respiratory problems.   Utilizing music with  Taiso's practice”, forms an aggregate of utmost importance, that harmonizes persons interior, changing him more sociable with everything in his circuit.     Taiso's Practice   Taiso is based on animal movement starting with the simplest forms to more complex, work frequently with the abdominal and lumbar region, responsible of  the human posture structure.   Taiso's physical practices are moderately related with the capacity of each person, factor that always determine exercises continuity and intensity. There are simpler exercises, directed to the work of muscular relaxation and concentration or meditation, that seek the health through breathing. It is fact that the human believes to be the breathing a mere involuntary process in life. However, the essence of this affirmation is is different. It is believed that the breathing is the aliment...Readmore

Tantojutsu or art of knife (knife made similary to Japanese traditional sword)) is basically divided into two forms:   Tanto- specific knife used in Japan   Aikuchi - specific curved knife used in Japan   Tantojutsu can also be divided by age, where the most classical forms are called Koryu and modern forms, that involve recent concepts (from the century XIX), called as Kindai.     Tantojutsu's in mediaeval times   In the Daisho classes, knife was always studied as important discipline for the formation of a warrior or samurai. Knives, what has a shorter distance than the sword, were used because of its agility and capacity to harmonize with different angles and directions.   Inside the Kaze no Ryu, or wind style, practiced by the Kyudoshin Bugei Kay Kan, descendant of the Ogawa Shizen Kay, who keeps this Tradition already more than 400 years, this art is mostly seen under the prism of reality, which make this art one of the dangerous ones.   The knife art has always given special attention to the anatomy characteristics and studies, to make the combat technics as efficient as possible. ...Readmore