Watch Zane Sensei practice throwing shuriken.

Tameshigiri (test cut) 試し斬り, 試し切り, 試斬, 試切 This unique style of tameshigiri or test cutting in English is a special way to test your taijutsu. Preperation: Get close to the tape (check your kamae) is your lead foot facing forward? Then hold the blade in an upright position as pictured in the video. Slightly shift your body forward over your right knee utilizing your whole body and let the blade come down in unison with the body shift. *Video is for illustration purposes only p

Toshitsugu (Chosui) Takamatsu was born on 10 March 1889 (the 23rd year of Meiji) in Akashi, Hyōgo Prefecture.[4] Also known as Mōko no Tora (蒙古の虎 Mongolian Tiger), he is attributed as a martial arts master by members of the Bujinkan organization.[5] Hatsumi reports that Takamatsu traveled through Mongolia to China at the age of 21, teaching martial arts and fighting a number of life or death battles.[6] He was married to Uno Tane. They adopted a girl named Yoshiko. His father

Japanese Kunai, the Ninja Kunai or Ninja weapons

We start out our martial arts journey striving to learn every technique or form possible. Most arts base your skill on how many techniques you can recall, and in fact this usually plays a main part in determining promotion towards the next rank. In our mid years of training we begin to learn that we can extract different portions of kata/technique or forms and manipulate them into variations (henka). To take this a step further, it is also said that for every variation we hav