The Opening and Closing of Doors

兵法

I trained in the art of Kashima-shinden Jikishinkage-ryū at the Hōbyōkan before moving to Seattle in 2016.

I then worked with a small number of people in order to maintain my practice. This activity centered around the performance of traditional kata as informed by my understanding of internal martial arts principles, the analysis of kata in a process called kuzushi, and combative pressure testing called tameshi-ai.

Jiki at Lonin is a practice now led by my two senior students, Jake Harlin and Nicky Sayah Sina.