var store = [{
        "title": "Demo of Araki ryu and Toda ha Buko ryu",
        "excerpt":"Ellis Amdur recently performed two demonstrations in Paris I would like to share in this space: Toda-ha Buko-ryu Demo Araki-ryu Demo I really enjoyed both of them, even though they typified very different expressions of martial arts. Buko-ryu is elegant, powerful, and austere while Araki-ryu is ferocious to the point...","categories": ["budo"],
        "tags": ["update"],
        "url": "/budo/2013/06/17/araki-ryu-and-toda-ha-buko-ryu.html",
        "teaser": null
      },{
        "title": "Bai Shr Ceremony",
        "excerpt":"At the end of August I traveled to Princeton, NJ to attend a seminar on Taiji Push Hands and the Bagua 18 Interceptions Dao form of Ma Gui -- this is a form using the \"Goose Feather\" saber, which is a long one-handed saber that has a constant width, unlike...","categories": ["budo"],
        "tags": ["update"],
        "url": "/budo/2015/09/15/baishr.html",
        "teaser": null
      },{
        "title": "Wu Taiji Quan Seminar with Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun",
        "excerpt":"Last weekend I attended a two-day seminar at Capital Aikikai in Silver Spring, MD, featuring Wu Style Taijiquan masters Zhang Yun and Zhao Zeren. This was Zhao Zeren's first time visiting the United States. Zhang Yun and Zhao Zeren trained together in Beijing under the late Grand Master Wang Peisheng,...","categories": ["budo"],
        "tags": ["update"],
        "url": "/budo/2016/05/23/wu-taijiquan-zhao-zeren-and-zhang-yun.html",
        "teaser": null
      },{
        "title": "Taiji Classics Seminar",
        "excerpt":"Last weekend I attended a taijiquan seminar taught by Zhang Yun organized by Paul Cote and Robert Galeone in Silver Spring, MD at Capital Aikikai. Master Zhang presented material from his recent book on Taijiquan Classics. Practitioners attended from Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Colorado. In...","categories": ["budo"],
        "tags": ["update"],
        "url": "/budo/2017/06/18/classics-seminar.html",
        "teaser": null
      },{
        "title": "Shadows and Kata",
        "excerpt":"Examining the parallels and divergences in different surviving lines of Shinkage-ryu, we can perform a partial matching between Jiki and Yagyu but the precise commonality between the two major traditions are obscured by time. In Jikishinkage-ryu, Hojo is the first formal kata taught, in four parts, each modeled after a...","categories": ["budo"],
        "tags": ["essay"],
        "url": "/budo/kata/",
        "teaser": null
      },{
        "title": "General Qi Jiguang’s Jixiao Xinshu and Reflections on Claims of Martial Virtue",
        "excerpt":"Some light reading, and the comparisons between martial cultures they evoke, lead to some self-reflection. Illustrious Founders Recently, The Secrets of Ittō-ryū (Vol 1) by Sasamori Junzo was published in English translation by Mark Hague, a senior practitioner of Ono-ha Ittō-ryū. The history of this remarkable martial tradition is described...","categories": ["budo"],
        "tags": ["essay"],
        "url": "/qi_jiguang_final/",
        "teaser": null
      },{
        "title": "Naming A Practice",
        "excerpt":"Last February I wrote: It is important to draw a distinction between \"military inspired\" arts, practiced by a military class focused on unarmored dueling, versus military arts practiced by a professional class that drilled and maneuvered in formation, on exercises or expeditions. I thought I would expand on this a...","categories": ["budo"],
        "tags": ["essay"],
        "url": "/budo/mindset/",
        "teaser": null
      },{
        "title": "Not Naming A Practice",
        "excerpt":"Wolf, Lady and Samurai by Tomioka Eisen, 1895 I recently provided feedback on a friend's upcoming essay collection. For my qualifications, I listed my affiliation with classical Chinese internal martial arts, where I am in a very clear and formal lineage. But I chose not to add Kashima-shinden Jiki Shinkage-ryu,...","categories": ["budo"],
        "tags": ["essay"],
        "url": "/budo/2024/02/22/wolves-and-clouds.html",
        "teaser": null
      }]