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The question for the evening was how to train if you are on your own. After a monumental struggle with my phone and my tablet involving downloading an extra app, trying to copy and paste where Android decided you don't copy and paste...... all just to find an email address that should be in my … Continue reading Going it alone Kim Taylor June 11, 2016 – 13 Jun 2023

Niten Ichi Ryu Zoom Class!! Kim Taylor and Pamela Morgan

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I often use budo as a metaphor for real life but in this case, in the case of emotional conflict, the techniques of physical conflict are direct parallels. More than that, budo teaches the techniques of emotional warfare along side the physical. Let's take the most obvious, the one I thought of first. When fighting … Continue reading Emotional Warfare: Hit ’em in the Hubris. Kim Taylor June 10, 2017

A friend in Japan sent the following: "What to do when what the seniors are doing seems unnecessarily harmful? Squeezing the forearm where the pulse is, so hard it's leaving bruises and female students are being approached at work about possible domestic abuse? Yonkyo, in other words." Yonkyo indeed. First, I have an observation on … Continue reading Bruises: How students don’t learn – Kim Taylor June 4, 2017 Re-post 10 Jun 2023

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