Ryuseiken Battodo

Japanese swordfighting

October 2008 Blog Posts (2)

Monday Classes at UA!

Hey guys, Senseis Monica and Bianca have asked me to teach an extra during the school week. This Monday there will be a class and every Monday thereafter at 6-7:30 p.m just like on Friday. This way there will be two opportunities to practice at the Rec Center during the week, if you can't make one class you can always make the other one to make up for it. According to most of the people in the university class, Monday works pretty well, but the day can always be changed depending on people's… Continue

Added by Andrew Dicenso on October 11, 2008 at 11:23pm — No Comments

Cutting Demo

Hi All, just thought i'd share a demo i did recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yimUbbGXSWQ
Let me know what ya all think.It was a rush demo and i had very few mats to do it with,it was done in a total of 5 hrs so all in all it looked ok....lol

Added by Rich Klaas on October 8, 2008 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Web sites & Resources

Matsuri: A Festival of Japan (2008) - Phoenix, AZ, Feb 23-28, Heritage Square

Battodo Ryuseiken in Japan. Also a partial site in english.



The Kodenkan of Tucson



The UofA Ryuseiken Battodo on the ASUA site



Tameshigiri.com - where we get goza. The ordering and shipping process are given.



Hanwei/Paul Chen swords



The Knighthawk Armoury builds some interesting realistic looking goshinken. They're expensive but they claim to be pretty durable (not yet tested by us).



Folding a Hakama the proper way



Woodall's Custom Workshop makes nice cutting stands for tameshigiri.


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