Kenjutsu

Kenjutsu translates the art of the sword. Although the term relates to the swordsmanship; Today kenjutsu refers to the specific feature of swordmanship is dealing with partnered sword training. It's the oldest form of training, it's at the simplest level, to be pared with two partners wielding their swords and practicing combat drills. It's historically practised with the wooden katana. Among to the experts, kenjutsu training may include increased degree of freestyle practise.

* Remember every time if hear/see the word "jutsu" in Japanese it literally means "the art of."

Jujutsu part 2

However they are the methods of combat including striking, throwing, restraining, and weaponry. They are defensive tactics including blocking, evading, off balancing, blending, and escaping. Today, jujutsu's practised in many forms between both the past and present. Various techniques of jujutsu's been combined into judo and aikido, as well being spread throughout the world and transformed into sport wrestling systems, adopted whole or parts of the martial arts school or the unrelated martial arts, jujutsu's still practised as they were centuries ago.


I am so sorry it wouldn't let me post the whole article in a single post. I had to do it separate. :(
~Jacqueline.

Jujutsu part 1

Jujutsu's a martial arts which translates to art of pliance. This martial art shows the art of indirect force, such as throwing techniques, defeating an opponent, opposing to punches and kicks in a direct force. This doesn't suggest that jujutsu does not teach and employ strikes, but to put it another way the art's aim is the ability to use the attacker's force against the opponent, and counter attack when they're not defended or they're weak.

Intro to karate classes and understanding the colours of the karate belt

If you're wondering where I'm practicing karate, I'm taking the lessons at Sunova Centre at West St. Paul. I'm going to explain about the colours of the karate belt. The karate belts are called obi, it shows the other people about their level. Now I'm going to list one of the obi colour from beginner to expert:

Beginners' and Tenth level: White Belt
Ninth Level: White Belt with a yellow stripe
Eighth Level: Yellow Belt
Seventh Level: Orange Belt
Sixth Level: Green Belt
Fifth Level: Blue Belt
Fourth Level: Purple Belt
Third and Second Level: Brown Belt
First Level: Black Belt

Once you obtain one of the colour belts you have to line up to a group of your colour belt beginning of the lesson and the dismissal of the lesson. Thank you for reading along about the understanding the colour of the Obi (karate belt) and please don't rush to get the black belt very quickly. That means you'll lose your patience and wisdom if you keep thinking over the idea of getting that belt.

Appropriate Dressing and Warm up

Now before entering the dojo you'll need something to wear in the lessons. For beginners you'll need a Karate Gi robe (pronounced gee) and a white belt for your lessons. The first rule is take off your shoes and socks off when your getting inside of the dojo. Now before warming up with the others you must sit down on your knees and bow down to your sensei. When your starting to warm up you will follow your sensei's movements and a lot of leg stretching. I post next time about how to kick and punch.

Picture of me @Copyright from Jacqueline

Japanese Martial Arts

In this post I will be talking about Japanese martial arts. These martial arts can only be found in the warrior traditions of a samurai and the caste system that restricts weapons by the members who are not warriors. These combative weapons that they interwined the tools used was to execute those techniques. However when it changed as the tools they used started to change and required the tools to be reinvented. The Japanese weapons were slowly evolving as well of the rest of the world, the teachings and the training of martial arts did evolved. However they are different categories that represents the Japanese martial arts are jujutsu, kenjutsu, Iaijutsu, Naginajutsu, sojutsu, and ninjutsu. I will explain one of those categories in the next post.