My habit is never to meet a knowledgeable teacher without having a good question in mind, just in case I am given the opportunity to ask. Rumiko and I traveled to the city of Tajimi municipal dojo for a demonstration of Yagyu Shinkage Ryu sword by Mouri Keisuke and his small group of students on […]
October graduation was amazing! Congratulations to all of our colored belt graduates, and Katy Rodes Guerrero and her promotion to Second Degree Black Belt. Check out Katy’s incredible demo and the rest of graduation here.
Great turn-out at Festival 31. Be sure to start making your plans to be there for Festival 32 “Ryu Tai Dragon Body” September 28-30, 2012!
Check out the recorded live broadcast of September’s graduation ceremony at the Dayton, Ohio, headquarters training hall. Congratulations to everyone who shared their success!
Check out the recorded live broadcast of August’s graduation ceremony at the Dayton, Ohio, headquarters training hall. Congratulations to everyone who shared their success!
Why do we so often overlook what is good and life-enhancing, and continue to get captured by the negative?
80 dedicated To-Shin Do practitioners gathered for our 12th annual Mountain Quest seminar with An-shu Stephen K. Hayes and hosts Richard Shuntoshi Stack and Hardee Hakutoshi Merritt, along with guest instructors Mike Dentoshi Ford, Hakim Intoshi Isler, and Dennis Fuutoshi Mahoney on Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. Participants traveled in from To-Shin Do training halls […]
New students may wonder why we put so much emphasis on making a commitment to long-term training goals in the dojo. Why not just go lesson to lesson, continuing on as long as each class is entertaining and provides some new trick or secret to learn? It turns out that authentic martial arts training provides […]
Through consistently realistic martial arts training we become familiar with how attacks happen. Such a training program must be far bigger than just learning techniques. Through simulation training where an aggressor comes at us and we do not know what will happen until it happens, we become more sensitive to an attacker’s intent. We learn […]