By Tor San The journey of any martial artist is one that involves a battle, and on Saturday the biggest battle that was fought was by those getting to the Art of Sword workshop, as Cheltenham had the majority of its roads gridlocked because of the literature festival! But despite this we had eleven people […]
By Tor San The journey of any martial artist is one that involves a battle, and on Saturday the biggest battle that was fought was by those getting to the Art of Sword workshop, as Cheltenham had the majority of its roads gridlocked because of the literature festival! But despite this we had eleven people […]
It being Thursday, it must be time for an update! Well done to all who came to yesterday’s or to Monday nights session. Monday was the lovely split between the class doing live sword training with Richard San and Nick San, and Tim San and Mark San getting stuck in to some really great combat […]
It being Thursday, it must be time for an update! Well done to all who came to yesterday’s or to Monday nights session. Monday was the lovely split between the class doing live sword training with Richard San and Nick San, and Tim San and Mark San getting stuck in to some really great combat […]
By Richard San I did’nt begin serious sword trainning until I became a blackbelt some 20 years ago, there had been opportunities before then to try a lesson in sword, but i think i had little interest then as young martial artist, too busy learning and training in Karate, which I thought then was all […]
Well, with the part one gradings happening over the next few weeks, the preparations certainly seem to have started in earnest in this weeks session. Last night we had a team of instructors and assistant instructors working hard over the first half of the session to make sure that everybody was ready for Sensei Tim […]
Well, with the part one gradings happening over the next few weeks, the preparations certainly seem to have started in earnest in this weeks session. Last night we had a team of instructors and assistant instructors working hard over the first half of the session to make sure that everybody was ready for Sensei Tim […]
Two blog updates in one week!!! So we’ll keep this one brief… Well celebrations are in order: First off we had a couple of part one gradings happen this week. On Monday Dohigh Tam took and passed the first half of her purple belt in Sword. After many frustrations of missing lessons and gradings through […]
Two blog updates in one week!!! So we’ll keep this one brief… Well celebrations are in order: First off we had a couple of part one gradings happen this week. On Monday Dohigh Tam took and passed the first half of her purple belt in Sword. After many frustrations of missing lessons and gradings through […]
As the ‘Art of Sword’ workshop gets ever closer, we thought you might enjoy some writings and thoughts about what sword means to your sensei’s and to the dojo! In feudal Japan peace and order was enforced by the sword. Battles and duels were fort daily and a skilled swordsman was never short of opponents. […]