Welcome to Nami ryu Kenjutsu online. I'm excited to have you here, and to share your passion for learning Japanese swordsmanship. ⚔️ Please take a minute to introduce yourself and share what motivates you to learn kenjutsu. Maybe you're into Kurosawa movies, the samurai, or Japanese swords, or maybe you've wanted to learn Japanese swordsmanship but don't have a place to train or a community to support you. We'd like to know what brought you here!

I recently read that in baseball it is very important to be in balance. If the hitter is too much on their lead foot their hit tends to be weak. If too much on rear foot they struggle to hit the ball. Just another example of how important it is for us to stay balanced in order to effectively strike our opponent be it with a sword or empty hand. We need to continue to work on maintaining our balance.

In class today we were working on displacing our training partner. I was doing ok but pointed out to the instructor I really struggle with larger stronger partners. I am older than everyone in class, including the instructor and not really an athlete. Rather than my instructor telling me to do something differently he said be unbothered. Don't think about how big or strong the other person is, just move like we are supposed to and it will work. If I add more I get in my own way. Definitely something for me to work on. I am sharing this in hopes it will help you all in your training. 🙂

Trying to get in class but it says host has another meeting in progress.

I noticed that Vimeo is shutting down their service completely. Is there a chance that all the videos currently offered through Williams Sensei’s Online Dojo could be brought under the umbrella of our dojo? There are over a hundred short videos I believe.