28/12/2013
Developed in Iwama after the war: “Origins of the 31-Jo kata”
By the time I learned it, the 31-jo kata was already complete, but when Koichi Tohei Sensei came to practice in Iwama it had not yet been perfected. What he learned was different from what I learned, probably because O-Sensei's way of instructing was not yet fully developed. When I learned under O-Sensei his teachings included all of the weapons techniques including the kumitachi. At one stage, there was no one left in Iwama except me, so I trained with O-Sensei by myself. His teaching gradually became more elaborate...
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Aiki Ken and Jo: To do or not to do... What do you think? The heated discussion persists about the inclusion of O-Sensei's weapons techniques in
