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Contents

Articles

• Introduction to Iaido
• Jodo
• Miyamoto Musashi: life, art, writings, kenjutsu
• Sven's trip to Kyushu
• Bloodgrooves and blade stiffness
• The Satsuma Biwa
• Book of five elements
• Tool to convert shaku, cm and inch
• Examples of Ju Jitsu (pdf)

Technique descriptions

• ZNKR Jodo
• Uchida ryu tanjojutsu
• ZNKR Iaido
• Niten Ichi ryu Hyoho
• Muso Shinden Omori ryu
• Muso Shinden ryu okuden tachiwaza
• Shinkage ryu iai
• Tamiya ryu Iaijutsu
• Two new ZNKR seitei iai kata
• Tachi uchi no kurai (Eishin ryu)
• Tachi uchi no kurai (Muso Shinden ryu)

Reviews

Books

• Reading list
• Decouvrir le Iai-do by J. Lobo, S. Santoro, ed. R. Habersetzer
• Pierre Delorme's Iaido and Kendo books
• Kenjutsu, the Art of Japanese Swordsmanship by Charles Daniel
• Aiki Tessen Jutsu by Hiro Mizukoshi

Videos

• The Sword of Aikido by Saotome Mitsugi
• Self Defense Aikido by Obata Toshishiro
• Nishio Aikido by Shoji Nishio

Seminars

• Amsterdam 1996 Iaido Seminar
• Lee Seminar, 1996
• Guelph 1997 Seminar
• Sittard summer seminar, 1998
• Nakakura seminar, 1998
• Amsterdam 2000 Jodo & Iaido Seminar

Events

• Community outreach
• Flower festival

Links

News:

We moved to a different host, courtesy of truefork.org.

Hopefully this will mean the end of nasty pop-ups, near-constant shutdowns of the site over bandwidth limits, and basically no more updates for the past few years due to having reached geocities' allocated webspace. If you were redirected here, please update your bookmarks to www.kampaibudokai.org

Current Spotlight Article

Muso Shinden ryu Tachi Uchi no Kurai

Our Top 10 Most Popular Topics

1. Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu itto, kodachi and nito sets (Miyamoto Musashi's school of strategy)
2. Our recommended reading list with ratings and short reviews
3. An introduction to Iaido aimed at the prospective student.
4. A book review featuring drawings of Katori Shinto ryu iaijutsu
5. History and kata descriptions from Uchida ryu Tanjojutsu (walking stick fighting)
6. History of Shindo Muso ryu Jodo, kata and techniques of ZNKR Jodo
7. History and illustrated kata descriptions of Tamiya ryu Iaijutsu
8. Illustrated explanation of iai katas from Shinkage ryu
9. Illustrated explanation of Muso Shinden ryu okuden tachiwaza
10. illustrated explanation of all 12 ZNKR Iaido kata

Our Top 5 most unjustly ignored pages

1. A script that converts between shaku-sun-bu and the metric system (and now also to inches!)
2. An illustrated review of Pierre Delorme's books.
3. Tachi uchi no kurai (Muso jikiden Eishin ryu standing sword practice with partner).
4. The misunderstood effect of fullers, bloodgooves, hi, ... on the weight and stiffness of swordblades.
5. The Satsuma Biwa an interview with Ueda Junko.

You may also be interested in my other sites, which include a photo gallery with lots of arms and armour pictures, and the Dragon Preservation Society, dedicated to European martial arts.