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Japón 2007 - Con Isidoro e Iñaki

For anyone who hasn’t seen it, the April edition of Hiden Magazine has a big article by Sakasai Sensei. You can order it from Amazon.co.jp and get it delivered ...pretty much anywhere quite quickly. Sakasai Sensei shows two kata from Hontai Takagi Yoshin Ryu, one from Koto Ryu and one from Gikan ryu. (To my knowledge, this is the first time a named kata from Gikan Ryu has been shown in public by a Bujinkan source. I haven't posted up all of the article because I want to encourage people to actually buy a copy. If the people who publish Hiden see a bump in sales when they include Bujinkan content, they'll be more inclined to publish more of it. So if you'd like to encourage them to do so, the best thing you can do is buy a copy. We got three for my dojo, and they arrived in three or four days from Tokyo to Ireland. Hard to argue with that.

An excerpt from the September 1995: Put Your Heart and Soul into Consistent Training Essay by Soke Masaaki Hatsumi. This translation of Soke Masaaki Hatsumi'...s work is from the philosophy book "Hiden Togakure Ryu Ninpo" or "Secrets of Togakure Ryu Ninpo". Contributed by Shidoshi Mats Hjelm, Sweden for Ura & Omote Articles. In your training career, there may come a time when you find yourself frustrated and disgusted with what you feel to be your own dullness. You just can not get the techniques right. Your training just does not seem to go the way you want it to. I consider this slump period to be absolutely necessary for your own growth. Your sense of frustration and constriction leads you to the breakthrough you need for advancement. Like a snake that struggles to shed it’s skin so that it can grow larger, the martial artist too must pass these inevitable stages of molting for growth. This molting period can be a dangerous time for the unwary, however. Because of the frustration experienced in working through your current training barrier, no matter what it is, you can become an easy victim to the seductive allure of all the other martial technique systems that suddenly seem to appear to be so much more desirable or more glamorous than your own system. Just as one child is always more impressed with the toys of another child, it is a common weakness for students of our art to reach a point of "tough going" and then suddenly look to the other martial arts as a form of distraction. Anything and everything else suddenly looks so good. Use your commitment to consistency to work through these difficult periods. Keep going. On the other hand, however, it is of course necessary to realize that not everyone is destined to be a master of this art. You have to know the difference between working through a difficult period as part of the growth process, and struggling pointlessly with a hopeless goal. If your feelings of frustration and constriction stretch out for ten years, it is perhaps wise to re-evaluate your commitments. Perhaps this is not the art for you after all. Train from the beginning with a sincere heart directed by proper motivation. It is pointless to work at the martial arts with the mere intention of collecting as many techniques as possible. This form of consistent concentration of course lacks the counter balance of the power of observation. Training for experience without awareness will only produce a martial arts scholar one who is no more than a walking technique catalog with no real heart.

Tehodoki, Hon gyaku, Ichimonji no Kamae, Ura gyaku

Japón 2007 - Último día en Japón del grupo de Leche en el Cocos, cerca de la estación de Atago.

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There is something peculiarly fascinating about ninjutsu. A bad ninja who takes advantage of what he has mastered will disappear as a vulgar merchant or as a stupid gangster. Masaaki Hatsumi Essence of Ninjutsu

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