You don’t have to carry a weapon to benefit from training in Koburyu Kobudo. In fact, one of the greatest strengths of traditional kobudo training is that its value extends far beyond the weapons themselves. The training develops timing, distance, coordination, body mechanics, awareness, discipline,…
Hmm what do you give a Kobudo legend that has everything? I recently built a pair of extended Tonfa for my Kobudo teacher and living legend Kaicho Takashi Kinjo. These were based on a traditional set of Tonfa I had hand crafted and customised for…
Training in Karate you can have a partner and train pretty hard i.e. close to how you would if it was needed. However with weapons this normally means a slow set of drills. So to allow more active delivery i built a training dummy. This…