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2015 Brotherhood of Veteran Warriors Gasshuku

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Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the 2015 Brotherhood of Veteran Warriors Gasshuku. The BOVW is an organization that was founded by US Military veterans with decades of martial arts experience, for the purpose of providing settings where martial artists from different backgrounds could come together to share and learn. They do not have any sort of curriculum, […]

Hand Formation in Kata

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Ryuuken (Dragon Fist), or Nakadaka-Ipponken (Convex Single Point Fist) Most kata use the closed fist more than any other hand formation, but even those kata will typically use at least one other hand formation, at some point. When you change hand formation in kata, the kata is usually telling you that you are striking in a certain way, or to […]

Making a Fist 4

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A standard balled fist The balled fist is a fairly standard tool in martial arts and it is a fairly natural method for forming your hand to strike someone.  That doesn’t mean it is the only method, or even necessarily the best method.  I would like to introduce two other methods–Shuri-ken and tate-ken.  The word ken we know to be […]