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Unfortunately, we don't have any new members to announce. Our new website is still under construction, but there may be other reasons too. Generally, this is the period of the year when most of the people surf the Net less than usually. We had only one application, and it is still in process of decision. Here it is:
I am a certified instructor
of Daito ryu kenjutsu, I would love to join your organization, could you
email me all that I need to send you and a mailing address.
Thank you
David N. Thomas,
mailto:musashi0182@hotmail.com
Lets hope for better news next time.
NEW RANK & WEBSITE
Our president, Walt Bushey has recently been
promoted to rank of shihan karate by the United States Martial Arts Federation.
Congratulations, Walt! His Katsujin Ryu Karate is a substyle of Shotokan
karate, but also has a structure of completed bujutsu system - there are
many throws, takedowns, locks, and weapons - including Iai. Walt has a
new site under construction, so please, visit it from time to time. It
is on:
http://www.katsujin.org
ANIMATED GIFs
Dear friends, please make few short animated
GIFs of your weapon performance. It can be easily done, and such an animation
would be great for our Magazine. This time we present you a short
animated GIF of Walt Bushey shihan. It is short Iai kata with katate tsuki,
ukenagashi and kesa giri. It is performed against the opponent coming from
the left.
MARTIAL ARTS ON CD
Our member from Czech Republic, Dejan Kostic, announced new complete kenjutsu CD, with tens of video sequences, each lasting 5 - 7 seconds. If you are interested in this material, contact Dejan sensei on: kosticd@volny.cz
Also, I am glad to present you a CD "Jujutsu Encyclopedia". I got it from Nebo Raicevic from Sweden, and it is one of the best jujutsu video collections I have ever seen. Nebo is offering services of producing quality CD Rom for all interested martial artists or associations. Here is his message:
We are a CD-ROM producing company within martial
arts. Please visit our website www.budo-rom.com
where we have information about our services and product JUJUTSU
ENCYCLOPEDIA. Have you ever thought about the benefits with your own CD-ROM
production? Why not do as the Danish Ju-Jutsu Federation? They have decided
to use our service in making their own CD-ROM. We can offer prices you
will find very intersting.
Contact us! That´s free of charge. We have
a concept how to make this a good investment.
Best regards
Nebojsa Raicevic, mailto:budo-rom@mail.helsingborg.nu
Manager
OUR MEMBER RECOVERING FROM OPERATION
Our honorary member, Don Cunningham from Chicago,
founder of Budo Kai, is recovering from successful operation of a kidney
stone. Don is taking it very well and he even went to his judo training
second day after operation (fortunately, only to supervise junior class.)
Besides, he finished the new Budo Kai Shimbun, fine online PDF Newsletter.
Get well soon, dear friend.
THANKS, GARY!
Shihan Gary Swift, 6th DAN Wado Ryu, our honorary member from UK, deserves unofficial award of "Member of The Month"! He did more on promoting KIAI than all of us together. Gary is forwarding everything about KIAI to a very long list of recipients. It makes one great inspiration for me to proceed with editing KIAI Online. Thanks, Gary!
MORE NEWS FROM AUSTRALIAN MEMBER, RAMON LAWRENCE
The following were the results of the 2001
Western Taikai held at Budokan Academy on Saturday 26th May, 2001. This
is the first of hopefully many competitions to be held during the WAKR
Calendar Year. It is hoped to bring more members of the three arts together
at the one location and enjoy viewing each others art from a competitive
viewpoint. Well done all participants. It was also good to see many Shimpan
in the correct "Referee's Uniform" which gave the competition a more "professional
appearance".
- Iaido Open Kyu Grade:
1st Mark Hird (Budokan Academy)
2nd Richard Turner (Budokan Academy)
3rd Charles Foster (Budokan Academy)
4th Phil Constable (Budokan Academy)
Kendo Open Kyu Grade:
1st Brian
Crawford (Murdoch Uni)
2nd Kim Evans
(Murdoch Uni)
3rd Goon Jhuen
Weng (Murdoch Uni)
4th Charles
Foster (Budokan Academy)
Kendo Open Dan Grade:
1st Takashi
Kuriyama (UWA-Japan)
2nd Wong Wai
Kit (Malaya)
3rd Susan
Bonar (UWA)
4th
Jeff White (Budokan Academy)
Interclub Open Team:
1st UWA
2nd Murdoch
Uni
3rd Budokan
Academy
Ramon Lawrence
President
NEW INTERESTING WEB SITES
Here is the Editor's list of few interesting web sites visited last month:
1. Yama-Tani Hombu Dojo, by soke Dr. Michael
Steward Sr. (USA):
http://www.yamatanidojo.com/contents.htm
Excellent site. You can see some great jujutsu and much more. There
are few photos of our member Dr. David Drepak from Israel, international
associate of Dr. M. Steward Sr.
2. Nunchaku website of SBC affiliate karate
nidan, Zeljko Vujosevic from Montenegro:
http://www.users.cg.yu/ronin
Great work: fine terminology, deep analysis of basic techniques,
nice gendai kata. It was my honor to announce that Zeljko has joined Serbian
Budo Council.
3. Online English to Japanese & Japanese
to English Dictionary:
http://www.savergen.com/onldict/jap.html
Very useful site, thanks to Gary Swift for sending this URL.
4. American Federation of Jujitsu
http://businesses.msn.com/jujitsu/
There comes a time when we must let our feelings go out: This is
the most disastrous thing I've ever seen in the world of jujutsu. If you
have extra few dollars, you can buy yourself any rank you want! Check it
out and judge for yourself. This is outrageous...
5. Journal of Japanese Sword Arts
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~kataylor/jjsanow.htm
Very nice.
Walt Bushey
President KIAI
Kokusai Gendai Budo Renmei Hombu Dojo
Katai Ryu Aikijutsu Association held its Second
International Open Seminar in Crvenka (Vojvodina, Northern Serbia). It
was a two-days event, lasting from June 16th till June 17th. Hosts of the
seminar were members of aikijutsu club in Crvenka, and the leading organizer
was renshi Goran Jaksic, 2nd DAN Katai Ryu Aikijutsu. General impression
of all the participants is that this year's seminar was very well
scheduled. There were 3 main classes, and many hours of friendly chat and
exchanging budo experiences.
Leading instructor of this seminar was sensei
Tomislav Djuric, from Novi Sad, 4th DAN Katai Ryu
Aikijutsu (KRA). Sensei Djuric presented variety of techniques included
in syllabus of KRA: atemi
waza, blocks, sabaki, combined evasive and attacking movements,
controlling techniques, and, of
course, throws and takedowns. It was a great pleasure to see that
even yudansha from other styles
and arts practiced all the KRA techniques, without any preconceptions.
Also, it was very nice to see
the friendly atmosphere on the mat, for there were participants
from 12 different dojo, from 9 towns,
more than 15 DAN holders and over 80 participants in total.
Aside from KRA instructors, there were several
outstanding black belt holders from Jujutsu
(Gendai Goshin Ryu and Taiho Ryu), Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Aikikai
Aikido, Karate and Ninpo.
These instructors have presented their arts too, and it was a great
show for everyone in the hall.
Well known Serbian sport channel "SOS" broadcasted parts of this
event on TV.
KRA organizers were particularly happy to see
their friends from Macedonia, leaded by KRA
sandan, sensei Simeon Stojceski. Even with war in their own country,
these brave Macedonian
budoka found the way to come to Crvenka to teach and learn.
There was a short time to even touch all the parts of Katai Ryu Aikijutsu. One of these "untouched' things were weapons. Katai Ryu includes 9 basic suburi with boken, and basics of jo and tanto jutsu. Sensei Tomislav and I discussed some very essential kenjutsu techniques, and it was my pleasure to see that this fine aikijutsu instructor needs only couple of classes before I recommend him for full KIAI membership.
(From Budo Kai Shimbun - Newsletter of Budo
Kai)
This Months Feature From York Aiki Jujutsu Dojo for KIAI Online
This edition features photographs
from a recent Kendo training session hosted by Braintree Aiki
Budo Kai. It is common for Dojo within the
Bushido Zazen International Society to arrange courses in
other martial arts, in order to broaden their
students experience.
Sensei Ian Stewart Sensei
(Godan Aiki Jujutsu) had the pleasure of being a student and receive
instruction in the art of Kendo taught by
Keith Henson Sensei(Nidan)
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But as the time passed, and I kept my sword where it belongs (on my left hip!), new questions raised. My first "students" and friends were not satisfied with my explanations: "If haimen ("Behind the back") position is not good as you say, then why don't you make a roll with the katana on your hip?" I had no clue what to say. If I only knew a bit more about Seitei Gata and nihon to arts, I would easily escape with: "Nobody does it, so why should I?" But I was young, and so I did it...
The first attempt almost broke my boken (I was scared to do it with katana - it was too precious to me back then). While I was rolling, my back hit the kisaki - it hurt really good! So, I learned my lesson quickly: pull it from the belt as much as you can before you start with ukemi (kaiten). Finally, after few tries, I put my "precious" sword in my belt, I took a deep breath ("God, save my spine and kidneys, and please, save this scabbard from breaking...") and I rolled. It went smooth! I did it....
And that's the story. I love "Kaiten Iai Waza" (that's how we call it) because it always amazes spectators more than anything else. We all know that performing ukemi on a wooden floor makes nothing to an average judoka / jujutsuka, and the little trick with pulling saya almost completely out from the belt saves both your back and the sword. But, people love to see it. So, this is maybe (definitely!) not worth the name "Technique of The Month", but I warmly recommend it. It is nice and effective, and sometimes we must think of "wondering teenagers" like we once were.
Yours in art,
Ivica
Few days ago Walt sent me this extraordinary video (click the link). It is his dojo in Lubbock, Texas, and the leading star of this short video is his 9 years old Iai, naginata and karate student, little girl Haley. She is fighting naginata against a new kickboxer (no weapons training). It amazed me how much energy was in the moves of this small warrior. Her constant attacks against the "enemy" who apparently didn't take her seriously enough are fascinating. She keeps her naginata constantly active, and it is phenomenal blending of her weapon with her opponent's. I was thinking of describing this as "KIRI AGE after release and irimi". But Walt said it just right: at her height, all do cuts are kiri age! So, I made another title (as you can see). Please, take a look at this fine video, and then read few passages from Musashi's "Gorin no Sho". Would the old man consider Haley as the demonstrator of his strategies? I would...!
Ivica
THE "ABDOMEN TIMING OF TWO"
When you attack and the enemy
quickly retreats, as you see him tense you must feint a cut. Then, as he
relaxes, follow up and hit him. This is the "Abdomen Timing of Two".
It is very difficult to attain
this by merely reading this book, but you will soon understand with a little
instruction.
TO STRIVE FOR HEIGHT
By "to strive ! for height" is meant, when you close with the enemy, to strive with him for superior height without cringing. Stretch your legs, stretch your hips, and stretch your neck face to face with him. When you think you have won, and you are the higher, thrust in strongly. You must learn this.
TO APPLY STICKINESS
When the enemy attacks and you also attack with the long sword, you should go in with a sticky feeling and fix your long sword against the enemy's as you receive his cut. The spirit of stickiness is not hitting very strongly, but hitting so that the long swords do not separate easily. It is best to approach as calmly as possible when hitting the enemy's long sword with stickiness. The difference between "Stickiness" and "Entanglement" is that stickiness is firm and entanglement is weak. You must appreciate this.
TO KNOW "COLLAPSE"
(...) In single combat, the enemy sometimes loses timing and collapses. If you let th! is opportunity pass, he may recover and not be so negligent thereafter. Fix your eye on the enemy's collapse, and chase him, attacking so that you do not let him recover. You must do this. The chasing attack is with a strong spirit. You must utterly cut the enemy down so that he does not recover his position. You must understand how to utterly cut down the enemy.
TO CRUSH
This means to crush the enemy
regarding him as being weak.
(...) In single combat, if the
enemy is less skilful than yourself, if his rhythm is disorganized, or
if he has fallen into evasive or retreating attitudes, we must crush him
straightaway, with no concern for his presence and without allowing him
space for breath. It is essential to crush him all at once. The primary
thing is not to let him recover his position even a little. You must research
this deeply.
Godan Katsujin Ryu Karate, Sandan Gendai Goshin Iai , from Texas, USA
http://www.katsujin.org
2. Ivica Zdravkovic, Founder
of KIAI, ikiliki@ptt.yu
Kenjutsu instructor,
Ju Jutsu yondan, Serbian Budo Council,
from Serbia
Webmaster of KIAI
Backup Website: http://www.webspawner.com/users/kiai
3. Dejan Kostic, kosticd@volny.cz
3.DAN kenjutsu
(Free style) in Budokai Praha, from Czech Republic
4. Vladimir Bojovic, bojovic@mobtel.co.yu
Shodan kenjutsu, Serbian
Budo Council, from Serbia
5. Ramon Lawrence, ramon@willowpond.com.au
Yondan Kendo& Iaido
in Australian Kendo Federation, from Australia
6. David Drepak, ddrepak@avx.co.il
3.DAN Kendo, president
of International TaekwonJitsu Federation,
from Israel
7. Luzius Dominic Schaerer, info@bsd.4mg.com
Instructor in Kenjutsu,
Iai, Ninjaken; Bujinkan Shinobu
Victoria Dojo, from Canada
8. Ian Stewart , ian.stewart6@btinternet.com
Instructor, 5.DAN
Aiki Jujutsu Iai in York
Aiki Jujutsu, from United Kingdom
(Website
hosting KIAI Online Magazine)
9. David Bish, dbish@dol.net
Shichidan Ju-Jitsu, Kenjutsu
instructor in "Red Dragon Ju-Jitsu"
Dojo, from Maryland, USA,
10. Jose Manuel Collado, collado@sspain.com
6. DAN, (Iaido
- Ken Jutsu), Technical Director in Bujinkan
Association of Spain , from Spain
11. Johan Pettersson, johan@gakedojo.org
Renshi,
Toyama Ryu Iaido, Gake Dojo, from Sweden
12. Keith Nicholas, seishinryu@ntlworld.com
Renshi,
Seishin Ryu Budo, from UK
13. Brian G. Barnes, logician@hyrusa.com
Renshi,
Hontai Yoshin Ryu, from USA,
14. Ondrej Stejskal, stejsko@feld.cvut.cz
instructor,
Free style kenjutsu, Budokai Praha, from Czech Republic
15. Jeff Harris, edenques@qwest.net
Gohomokuroku,
Shidoin, Arizona Shinkendo Shibu,
from USA
16. Don Cunningham, HONORARY MEMBER, budokai@concentric.net
from USA
Founder
of Budo Kai
17. Jeff Boler, HONORARY MEMBER, KIAI
Webmaster,
jeff.boler@unisys.com
from USA KIAI WEBSITE:
http://www.geocities.com/kiaidomain/
18. Gary Swift, HONORARY MEMBER, aiwashihan@hotmail.com
,
president
of AIWA and NIBF
from UK
19. Srdjan Ilic, strajder@ptt.yu
Shidoshi
(Ninjaken) in Serbian Ninpokai, from Serbia / Yugoslavia
20. Steve Corkum, SCo7129849@aol.com
Shinobi
Jutsu sandan, kenjutsu instructor, master swordsmith www.hawkknives.com
from USA
21. Nick Sleep, NickS@dar.demon.co.uk
Jiriki Ryu
Aikijujutsu 3rd DAN, from United Kingdom
22. Tahir Mamudoski, kenjutsu Instructor in
BUDO club Negotin, from Macedonia
Died last year
23. Drasko Jankovic, (+381) 012-220581
Shodan
kenjutsu in Serbian Budo Council, from Serbia
24. Albert Treto, Shodan Gendai Goshin
Iai in Gendai Goshin Budokai, from Texas, USA
Contact:
Amarillo (via Gendai Goshin Budokai)
KIAI is a non-profit Internet association founded to improve the communications among kenjutsu instructors worldwide. KIAI offers free lifetime membership to all kenjutsu instructors, free KIAI ONLINE MAGAZINE, ranking programs, lists of techniques, terminology, and variety of other free services to KIAI members.
Who can become a member of KIAI?
Members of KIAI are instructors of japanese
sword arts from various styles, schools and associations. Following the
idea of assembling people of shared interests, founders of KIAI created
this association to attract all kenjutsu - related martial artists, including
those in kendo, iai, aiki - boken,
ninjaken and various other forms of Japanese swordsmanship. There are simple
requirements for KIAI membership. Just ask yourself following questions:
- Do you have students who learn japanese sword
arts from you?
Are they tested in this area and promoted for what they learned from you?
Are you licensed from your association to do this by some prearranged syllabus?
How to become a member of KIAI?
There is an Online Membership Inquiry on the
KIAI main site. Just fill in the blank and send it to KIAI. Or, send
an e-mail to KIAI president with following
information:
1)
Your full name, date and place of birth, current
address, phone number and e-mail address (plus URL, if available)
2)
Your current rank (kenjutsu, kendo, iai, or any other art / style / system
which has Japanese swordsmanship included in its syllabus)
3)
Scanned copy of your instructing certificate (including classical DAN diploma
which subsequently gives you the right to teach within prearranged syllabus)
4)
Full address (and URL, if available) of your martial art association /
dojo
5)
Short text with following info: Total number of years in your current style,
your credentials (names of your teachers and examiners), origin of your
style / art, full info about your current school / dojo / association -
including detailed rank requirements (syllabus), etc.
6)
Several scanned photos (JPEG or GIF) of you and your students / associates
7)
(If possible) Short video clip or few animated GIFs of you performing sword
techniques
Are there any certificates and
promotions in KIAI?
KIAI gives Membership Certificates to all
its members, but issues no ranks nor titles. KIAI Membership Certificate
includes the rank and title of a member, but with clearly specified name
of the association / organization which issued that rank.
What are the relations between
KIAI and other martial arts organizations?
There are many martial arts organizations
that recognize KIAI and share the mutual respect with us. Some of them
are World Budo Alliance, International Black Belt Foundation, Budo Kai,
Kokusai Gendai Budo Renmei etc.