My fight has always been within
Nov 17, 2021
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
Oct 08, 2021
The human body has the same weak points and so does the mind whether a person is standing or on the ground. For a way to practice, once a standing technique has been mastered, you can try using the same technique and the same way of thinking from...
Shuko, a good way to break your hand
Sep 07, 2021
Itto Dori 一刀島. In my last post about this, I mentioned a bit about the shuko, and how I’d challenge any practitioner to do the techniques of the Ukemi Gata as demonstrated in popular videos, etc. good luck.
Here, striking with the...
Only you can understand Budo
Feb 19, 2021
四拳 波羅蜜 大光明. Many things in Budo can be easily translated, others cannot. It's easy to google, or look at someone else's translation or even have a master brush it for a couple hundred bucks ... But this is just someone else's understanding, their...
Testing Expectations, What's Beyond the Curriculum
Jan 15, 2020
We just completed a new cycle of rank testing here at the Dojo, and I gotta tell you ... there's some blood on the floor. Well not really, but metaphorically.
A lot of students just didn't make it through...
Adam Mitchell
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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.
