ENG: School break in Hamburg. I have this little kunoichi in the making who wanted to train again. This Ninja-Princess‘ wish is my command. Today we had a little fun in the dojo. Of course I took care that she executed the movements correctly, but most of all it was
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ENG: We were practising/applying do gaeshi in some of our practises lately, as a „finising move“, when uke lands on his back in order to control our partner, while lying on the stomach. After that the wish came up to practise something from Takagi Yoshi Ryu. As I didn’t have
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ENG:This week, we covered a combination of movements, leading to a two punch scenario with omote gyaku, a controlling juji dori and bringing uke down. Before we ended there, we broke the whole thing down to the single movements and put them together at the end. It was a great
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ENG „Yesterday there were so many things, I was never shown.Suddenly this time I found, I’m on the streets and I’m all alone“ (Guns n‘ Roses, „Yesterdays“) Luckily I was never alone, I was on my own for quite a while but always had the right people to guide and
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ENG: Finally some members who were injured and who were on vacation are back. It was a great class and we all – including me – had lots of fun. I try to savor every minute in the dojo and train with all the members with fun. One particular member,
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Yesterday we worked on Chi no Kata and moved to some other movements… some more, some less painful. Gestern haben wir die Chi no Kata und sind dann zu weiteren Übungen gewechselt… einige mehr, andere weniger schmerzhaft.
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EN: We are all vaccined and 100% received their 2nd shot. Up until this week we kept training with weapons only and we start to work on taijutsu as long as it is possible. Who knows what the next months will bring us. Here is a snippet from yesterday’s training.
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EN: Yesterday we worked a lot with ukemi, used the Jo with ukemi and then some basic movements (kamae, ukemi) with the stick. Close to the end we worked a bit on Taijutsu and trained with contact and no weapons for the first time. DE: Gestern haben wir viel Ukemi
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ENG Our first approach in working in Kukishinden Ryu Jô-Jutsu started in October 2020, shortly before we went to our second and harder lockdown. I still remember as a kid hearing of „curfews“ and I never expected to ever experience it myself… even more in the city I live in.
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ENG: A year ago RTL Nord (local TV branch of a national broadcaster) featured us in a segment about activities to start with in Hamburg aside from the usual sports activities. The segment was broadcasted in Summer 2020 after the first restrictions due to COVID-19 were lightly lifted. Unfortunately the
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