Renshu, price of admission to complete realization
練習, renshu. To train repetitively. Knowing with the mind and knowing with the body are different things. I’m not interested in talking about a martial art I can’t realize and perform physically. Talk is cheap.
In order to fully...
Finding Humanity in the Tea House
In 2014, I was led into an old Japanese tea house, by Sensei.
Accompanying me were a dozen or so folks I really knew nothing about, other than I’d trust my life with each one of them without a thought.
Together, we were about to be awestruck...
On Observing the Student
Observing a student. You have to know each one in a way they do not know themselves. This is what separates a teacher from a charlatan, it’s the willingness to learn about the individual student.
It begins with seeing what type of learner...
My fight has always been within
It just took some time to learn this.
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others” - Confucius
I spent almost all of my life looking to fight, face some confrontation, defeat an unseen bad guy, to...
The human body has the same weak points and so does the mind
Shuko, a good way to break your hand
Only you can understand Budo
Don't feed the monkey, keep going and expect to break
20 years ago, I had my first training experience with my martial arts teacher, and in this episode I want to share with you some observations that I took from that experience and how it really helped me to understand this saying,
Keep going.
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Nin Tai, Something More than Not Giving Up
About 15 years ago, I was at a martial arts seminar in Virginia that Manaka Sensei was teaching.
Testing Expectations, What's Beyond the Curriculum
Adam Mitchell
Author
Adam Mitchell is the owner and instructor at the Jinenkan Kosei Gogi Dojo in Mahopac, New York. He is a personal student of Manaka Unsui and has acheived the rank of 6th Dan in the Jissen Kobudo Jinenkan.
