Keith and I are working on an update to the site that will make mobile browsing better and get rid of several bugs we discovered. This will probably take few weeks. Meanwhile I still enjoyed finding the time to write and update several articles, mainly in Koto ryu. Here they are:

Video of Neck breaking throw

Link to the new articles in Hebrew is here.

At the first training session we will learn three Ninjutsu locks and continue drilling the kicks and punches combos while retreating.
At the second veterans’ session we will integrate Koto ryu shoden level Kata into Randori practice.

Video of Kako no kata – Koto ryu

Jerusalem Ninjutsu – AKBAN

At the first training session we will work with punches and Ninjutsu elbows using the first timing of retreating and punching.
At the second training session we will start with 3 shoulder locks and then practice Hanbo strikes.

Video of a basic one hand Hanbo strike

Ninjutsu Tel Aviv – AKBAN

We will devote most of the training session to retreating kick and punch combos derived from Ninjutsu Koto ryu kata. Later we will apply Ninjutsu hand locks against a grappling situation.

Video tutorial of the striking points of Ninjutsu back spinning kick

נינג’יטסו רמת השרון – אקבן

Today we will use short range Ninjutsu strikes against opponent closing distance and grabbing. We will use throws and armlocks to defend against certain holds.

Kata te tori – Video of an armlock against a two hand hold

Jerusalem Ninjutsu – AKBAN

The most exact technique can give it’s products a magical value.

Short history of photography
Walter Benjamin

This has been a busy week with many updates to the AKBAN martial arts documentation project. Here’s a concise list of the English AKBAN-wiki changes. If you’re addicted to wiki code, the wiki rss can be grabbed here.

 The Ninjutsu Acrobatics section was updated

1. Koho tenkai – Back hand spring from omote gyaku
2. Koho tenkai with koho tombogaeri – somersault
3. Koho tombogaeri – Back somersault against an opponent
4. Koho tombogaeri – Back somersault against gosha dori
5. Koho tombogaeri – Back somersault against koshi nage
6. Koho tombogaeri – Back somersault from oni kudaki
7. Oten – Cartwheel
8. Zenpo tombogaeri – forward somersault
9. Zenpo tombogaeri – Front somersault against morote seoe nage
10. Shoten – Wall running
11. Shoten tombogaeri – Back somersault from wall running
12. Zenpo tenkai – forward handspring
13. Zenpo tenkai – Front hand spring agaisnt ura gyaku
14. Zenpo tenkai – one hand forward handspring

The 16 secret Ninjutsu punches became not so secret here:

1. Hoken Juroppo, sixteen striking treasures – Ninjutsu
2. Elbow strikes, hiji, enpi, 肘 – Ninjutsu
3. Bent thumb knuckle strike, Koppō Ken, Ko ken – Ninjutsu
4. Ura shuto, Reverse blade of hand strike – Ninjutsu
5. Five fingers claw strike Shako ken, Kuma Te – Ninjutsu
6. Beak strike, Shitan ken, san shin tsuki, go shin tsuki – Ninjutsu
7. Fudo ken, Ninjutsu fist
8. Boshi, Shito ken, thumb strike – Ninjutsu
9. Tsuki, back punch with a step, Ninjutsu
10. Happa, simultaneous two side strikes – Ninjutsu
11. Tai ken, body blow, Ninjutsu
12. Shishin ken, little finger strike – Ninjutsu

Various Judo and Ninjutsu articles were updated

• Doko ichimonji no kamae, angry tiger stance – Ninjutsu
• Hon gyaku jime, wrist torsion break – Ninjutsu
• Tani otoshi – Valley drop
• Tomoe nage – Circle throw
• Spinning rear push kick, Ushiro mawashi geri – Ninjutsu
• Sokuho kaiten – rolling to the side
• Bobi no kamae, defensive posture – Ninjutsu
• Oh gyaku kata, Shoden gata level – Koto ryu
• Himum, the AKBAN warmup exercises
• Hosoku kata, Shoden gata level – Koto ryu
• Kata guruma, Judo – Shoulder wheel
• Kouyoku kata, Shoden gata level – Koto ryu
• Man empi – Elbow to the head
• Seoi Nage – Lifting shoulder throw
• Muso dori, elbow break, Ninjutsu
• Moving diagonally back, Naname ushiro sabaki – Ninjutsu
• O guruma – Large wheel
• Forward break fall, Mae ukemi – Ninjutsu
• Tsukomi Jime – Front tracheal choke – Ninjutsu
• Dynamic Judo throws seminar, Murata Masao Sensei – AKBAN 2012
• Chokes
• Gun, modern weapons seminars, Akban 2011
• Kikaku ken, headbutt

Video of the Osoto gari from Murata sensei seminar last week

For this week on the Hebrew site click here.

Today we will go over the newly learned full clinch Ninjutsu techniques and drill the rest of the session with retreat while attacking combos.

Video of a Ninjutsu throw against a half clinch

Tel Aviv ninjutsu – AKBAN

Today at the first session we will work the basic self defense hold release and repeat striking combinations.

At the veterans session we will hone Koku no kata and Ninjutsu armlocks.

Video of Ninjutsu hold release, 1st henka

Jerusalem Ninjutsu – AKBAN

At both sessions, beginners and veterans, we will practice Koku no kata with timing against a jab. Later we will train with three Ninjutsu techniques against a full neck clinch.

Video of a neck lock in Ninjutsu

Ninjutsu Tel Aviv – AKBAN