Saturday, May 19, 2012
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Grand M aster Vistist shidoshi
Grand Master Shi De Yang, a 31st generation Shaolin monk, who is considered one of the greatest Shaolin masters in...
Bercy Martial Arts festival
On Saturday March 24, 2012, the delegation of Kaze no Ryu Ogawa ha students, headed by Shidoshi Jordan Augusto and...
Taikai 2012
The 2012 Taikai in Valencia Spain, they say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Two new books
Two new books have just been released to the press
International Encoun…
International Encounter III
Graduation photos -2
Photos -2
Graduation
This past Friday the 13th of Jan. 2012 Shacho Tony Aloe had the pleasure of graduating Three students to the level of "Seito." Followed by Chanoyu (Tea ceremony)
Baby Girl
Great News, Everyone at NABS would like say CONGRATULATIONS to Shibucho Nelson Hill and his wife Charlotte on the birth of their beautyful daughter. Viviana Elise Hill who was born…
New Shibucho's
Everyone at North American Bugei Society want to welcome two new Shibucho's to our Bugei family
Hall of Fame 2011
This past weekend was the Budo international hall of fame, everyone at North American Bugei Society, would like to congratulate Shidoshi Jordan, Shidoshi Juliana, Shacho Luis, and Shidoin Rebeca. What…
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Bugei Essays
Bugei and Budo Training in a dual mind set
BUGEI and BUDO Training in a dual mindset While I was talking with a student the question was posed to me, How does one learn to have a budo mind while...
New shidoshi
CONGRATULATION Oct 2010 Congratulation to Sensei Juliana on receiving her promotion to Shidoshi ! This is a monumental achievement, and one well deserved. She is an inspiration to all and a fine human...
The inevitable return of energy
The inevitable return of energy!(By Jordan Augusto) Every practitioner has had the experience to train with someone who does not seem well ... Unease, discomfort ... That thing looks like the...
Wabi Sabi
Wabi sabi, like Feng Shui, is an Eastern idea gaining in the West. Unlike Feng Shui, wabi sabi is not a technique for increasing wealth, or tapping into some unseen...
From the sword to wisdom
The Western mind has great difficulty in imagnining how the idea of the sword, which represents purely a weapon of death, can be connected to a concept of wisdom and, to a greater extent, to the notion of Way. Yet, the Way of the sword surpasses traditional wisdom to…
Harmony and Bugei
Ippo jitsu mugai ,ippo jitsu mugai Kenkon toku ittei Suimo hono mitsu Dochaku soku kosei? “There is nothing but one truth: It is universal, constant, The wind-blown feather truly obtains this secret; To know harmony amidst confusion is to be illuminated” -as related to Tsuji Gettan sukeshige by Sekitan Zenshi 1693 In Kaze no Ryu Bugei training there should…
The Art of Empty Self
"Scholars of old time said that the mind is originally empty", and only because of this can it respond (resonate) to natural things without prejudices (traces left behind to influenece later vision). Only the empty mind can respond to the things of nature. Though everything resonates with the mind,…
The dojo
Throughout the world there are numerous training facilities for the Asian martial arts. However, very few of these places rate the title of dojo. The more commonly used terms of studio or gymnasium are, general, much more appropriate. These institutions teach only the shell of an art and neither understand…
Reihou
Kaze no Ryu Bugei and the art of Reihou
Sword and Brush
While I was reading an article on calligraphy this past week, I began to reflect on my journey to Valencia Spain, for the first international encounter of Kaze no Ryu Bugei. My initial meeting with Shidoshi Augusto, he was not holding a sword but rather a brush. As I sat…
The Influence of Knowledge, By…
It's amazing that nowadays the concept has become the tradition of discussion and argument only subjective forms of impressionism. Today, when starting a lesson and make gestures and bows to kamiza or longer know the reasons for following a sequence of directional movements. This part of the beginning of class…
Bujutsu
The long history and complex tradition of Japanese art of combat is contained in a variety of forms, methods and weapons that markedly characterized their specializations. Each specialization is known by the term 'jutsu', a word that can be translated to our language as 'method', 'art' or very 'technical'. The term…
Sonkei The Heart of Kaze no Ry…
When one first looks at Kaze no Ryu Bugei, it is very easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of the many subjects which make up this art of the Samurai. But for the serious student of Ogawa Ryu, it will not take long to see what is at…
Ogawa Ryu Traditions from Japa…
There is no worse friend than ignorance, that is why in Black Belt we have got down to continue to explain the traditional foundations in Japanese arts every month. Everything is seen in its opposite, the traditional saying goes.Therefore East will be seen in the West and vice versa. The…
What is Koryu?
The word Koryu in Japanese origin could be literally translated as an "old flow", when there are referred to the old schools, styles or traditions and not necessarily only in the war tradition.
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