Here are two of Oded’s favorite boxers (one that he did not even know he liked).

These guys are Emmanuel Augustus and Roy Jones Jr. , two boxing legends . When  I look at their stuff I’m amazed by two similarities: first the flow of the Tai sabaki, and by that I mean the control these boxers have over distance, stepping and evasive body movement, wow!

Then there is the more subtle but very visible control of the flow (Nagare in japanese) and tempo (Tempo in Japanese, ha). The effect that controlling the tempo of the fight is so obvious that we guys, doing traditional Ninjutsu / Taijutsu should watch and learn from.

Integrating traditional system with modern day demands and insights is a complicated job, and we try to do this every time we’re at the dojo, but these clips are so great they kind of  take the weight of day to day training.

Two sweet video clips in the AKBAN blog show Emmanuel Augustus and Roy Jones Jr.
These great boxers use two traditional techniques and elevate them to pure art.
A link to the post

We are starting to add, in small digestable bits, a tutorial section to our martial art encyclopedia, the AKBAN-wiki. Here are two examples from last week Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Ramat Hasharon Dojo practice:
A jump guard tutorial,
A Taijutsu sutemi waza tutorial.

We just added new Ninjutsu moves and techniques to the wiki. Some of these include:
Hitting and jumping kata,
Scoop throw,
Escape from front clinch,
Gan seki otoshi,
Ganseki nage.
As a general rule you can always check the recent addtions to the wiki here.

Sorry, the AKBAN-wiki, our huge martial arts encyclopedia, was down for more then 6 hours. It seems that it’s memory demands were tasking our server.
Fixed it, sigh…

An interesting article in Furyu the Budo Journal, gives a scholarly perspective about hand signs in Ninjutsu, Mikyo (esoteric Buddhism), and Koryu.
A link to the article

Sunday the 19th of may saw three more students who, after an average two years of training, passed the yellow belt exam.
A link to the requirements for the yellow belt exams

Koshi Nage, Te hodoki Side te hodoki, Both hands release, Bumping the hands release, Opposite hand release, Omote gyaku te hodoki, Ura gyaku te hodoki, Jumping front kick, Breaking the elbow, and finally Back somersault from wall running.

In Beit Hakerem Dojo we started with sakanagare no kata and emphasized Kata Guruma.
At the German colony Dojo we continued with Daken and punching techniques in addition to several wrestling throws.
At the Tedi, Ramat Hasharon and Tel Aviv Dojos we dealt with sacrifice throws Tai Sabaki and Hissaku no kata

A new article by Yossi S. about the special senses of a warrior, illustrates the subject by an example from politics.
A man’s premonition could have prevented prime minister’s Rabin assassination.
A link to the article in the AKBAN blog