Southern Oregon Iaido Club

07/23/2025

Hottest Day Training

05/24/2025

Iaido club at the Boatnic Parade!!

05/24/2025

Demo at the comicon!!

04/28/2025

Life is Iaido!

04/28/2025

Cleaning class with the Fujita Sword

02/09/2025

Kangeikgo 2025

Kangeiko is a traditional Japanese martial arts practice that involves winter training. It's a time to challenge oneself, renew one's spirit, and set a goal for the new year.

Kangeiko is a way to challenge oneself and renew one's spirit. It's also a way to develop mental toughness.

What does kangeiko involve?

Physical training: Flexibility, strength, and interval training

Mental and emotional flexibility: Developing fortitude and mental toughness

Ceremonies: Pledge your hopes for the year, and participate in a sake ceremony with your teacher

This year falls on Feb 9th
See you on the other side!

11/13/2024

Kendo section heating up. Students learn the distance, timing and confidence to strike while the iron is hot! Great day and super fun! I am not the best at Kendo, but ai think it is important piece!

11/04/2024

03/31/2023

THINK BY YOURSELF
– By Soke Masaaki Hatsumi

In ancient times, a person who strived to learn budo would do individual keiko. After learning skills from his teacher, he trained himself to master those lessons. He had to have the determination to study through the techniques alone. Going into the mountains, he would repeat his solo training in nature, fighting with animals and trees.
These days, so many people forget to ”go into the mountains.” These people tend to desire the easy way out. If they are having problems that are complicated, they immediately ask someone older to solve it for them. Moreover, the elder gives them easy advice. Most people answer nicely because they think it would be good to help the situation along, but in fact, this often ends up hurting the individual`s growth.

It might be a little different for keiko in budo, but some problems can only be understood by the person who has the problem. An advisor gives suggestions trying to solve the problem through applying his own experiences, while the listener ( who does not have those same experiences ) listens to the guidance as if it were being recieved from some divine being. There is sometimes a serious danger in missing a lesson`s important point. Therefore, you should sometimes offer the advice, ”Ponder the dilemma yourself.” You may consider this ”coldhearted.” However, being cold illustrates the need to solve a problem ( finding warmth ).Perhaps some days later, the individual will return saying: ”I can`t figure out a solution…” and he will recount his problem in a totally different manner than his first telling. You will now be able to discern how to offer advice that is more appropriate by judging from his revised account.

In budo, we inform students of the proper answer after the “torment” of making them think for themselves. Some things must be learned through suffering or they will be forgotten for the rest of your life. We must all learn to solve our own difficult problems. Furthermore, in budo, we suffer great pains to master the best techniques. It was throught the pains and labors of our ancestors, who became the founders of our traditions, that these techniques were invented.

This was posted by the bujinkan Tasmania Dojo.