Katana - Japanese ninja sword shopping
The web offers plenty of opportunities to get your own Ninja Katana, with a very wide selection of sharp stainless steel swords complete with shoulder or belt straps at very reasonable prices – some under thirty dollars. Among these types of Katanas you might even come across ninja-ken swords that are claimed to be made from the broken remnants of samurai swords which were excavated from a battlefield of feudal times.
But with archaeological left overs aside, you can also find quality hand-forged Katanas for training and tameshigiri (swordsman’s skill test), such as this one: Katana shopping
Handmade Katanas may cost over two hundred dollars, but come from reputable craftsmen with a long history in the art of metalwork.
Recording a martial arts training session in Akban
In the years that passed since the founding of the Akban traditional MMA school we did countless training sessions in various terrains and weather situations. We did want to record, on video, a typical in-dojo training. On this very big website we have countless videos of martial art techniques we created and uploaded for our martial arts encyclopedia, we do not have many videos depicting a training session. We figured that the challenge is to capture both the silence, the beauty and the down-to-earth approach we have here, in Akban. Instead of boasting we chose to understate the randori, kata and all the other stuff. Did we do it well? The question of how to video accurately our martial art is a big one. Even though we love Bruce Lee we are quite sure day to day training doesn't look like a movie. Well, enough said, here it is.
BJJ video clips from Alan Moraes seminar
For more then a week Alan Moraes, a Carlson Gracie 3rd degree black belt, trained the Akban veterans. Here is a playlist of all the techniques from the last day of training, have fun.
End of sparring month, beginning of a new marital arts year in Akban
We have just finished the traditional Randori month in Akban, held since 1986.
Here's a short video, actually very short, of a regular Randori session in Yossi Sheriff's dojo, Akban Tel Aviv.
Happy new Jewish year to all!
Images from Alan Moraes BJJ seminar
Till we upload the instructional videos we have first Image gallery of Alan Moraes's seminar in Akban.
BJJ seminar this Saturday
Alan Moraes, a expert instructor from Carlson Gracie Rio de Janeiro dojo, is opening up the last lesson (22.8.2009) for all Akban veterans.
Professor Moraes, who came to Israel from Brazil, finishes a week long concentrated seminar on advanced Brazillian Jiu Jitsu. Interested veterans can call their instructor, in Hebrew, here.
Images from Ernsto Hoost kickboxing seminar
Till we upload the instructional videos we have first Image gallery of Ernesto Hoost's seminar in Akban.
The sparring month has began - August 2009
The blitz, the sparring month, has started. As it does always in the last 23 years. The Tel Aviv groups train in the dojo, Jerusalem in Gan Havradim. For exact hours click the Hebrew link .
Cancelled training session, 16.7.2009, Tel Aviv
Thursday training session (16.7.2009, 18:00) in the Tel Aviv dojo is cancelled. Please inform your training partners or call me: 052-2723207 יוסי שריף
New martial arts wiki
We have a new Martial Arts wiki today. Gone are the cumbersome wikipedia skins, css and boxes. Gone is the mutual navigation with the akban.org site.
On the helm was Keith Harris from Bifugi who did it with help from Vadim Gilead and me.
Since we are a small crew we overlooked many bugs in the new design. Any remarks, corrections and suggestions mailed to us would be warmly appreciated.
