Tenshin Ryu Hyoho and Yoshukai Iai.

In 2014 I spent 2 hours at Mr Culbreth's residence with Soke Yamamoto to discuss Yoshukai Iai with him.

Soke showed me some bunkai for some of the waza and we also discussed the origin of Yoshukai Iai. Soke did not learn Iai from Dr Chitose but from 2 different masters from Kyushu. 

Although I was not always able to fully understand what he was trying to tell me, I understood he had been training in the 2 styles of Tenshin Ryu and Jigen Ryu, and that when one of the masters he was training with died, he quit training in that style.

In this Tenshin Ryu video, you can see where some of the Yoshukai Iai moves come from.

Although Tenshin Ryu Nodachi is much longer than the regular katana used in Yoshukai iai, the waza at 1:40 is very close to the Yoshukai Waza #8, and the next one at 2:00  is very similar to our #7. 

Also, Chiburi and Noto are the same.

Fred Lecut, Dothan Dojo

Osu! Following the Dothan Tournament Shihan Greg Turnbull will be holding a full contact clinic from 11am to 2pm at Mr. Culbreth's dojo on Sunday October 30.

 

 

 

Please pass this along to all students. 

 

For further information contact:

Shihan Dai Josh Mc Cullars

 

Test Post

This is a test for the new WYKKO online Newsletter. After 4 month of trying, it is finally working I suppose (Thank you Mr Hofmeister for your advice).

This newsletter will be arriving in the email inbox of each member of our organization.

Master Chitose & Yamamoto

 

With this newsletter, we will be able to publish individual articles. This is better to keep people's interest.

It is a private newsletter, so people cannot subscribe directly to it. I did that on purpose so we can publish things we do not wish people outside of the organization be aware of. 

We will be able to publish videos on this newsletter

For this matter, I will create a private Youtube channel. This way no copyright problems from people pretending to own rights to this or that video.

Please let me know what you think. I can do some changes.

Next step is to upload a list of emails of all Yoshukai people so they can receive the newsletter

I would like to do it in 2 steps : first instructors then students.

OSU