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Dear Reader,
In this issue of CURIOUS THINGS... |
BUDO TRADITIONS PART III:
THE BUDO STUDENT OR DESHI |
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Martial artists are all students of an art that is too vast to fit into only one lifetime. As my teacher says, we have enrolled in a school of no graduation. But the basis of the Budo student is bound by the culture of a pre-modern Japan...which probably has something to do with why the traditional Budo deshi or student, is often only a fossil of yesterday's Japan...
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BUDO X-FILES
MYSTERIOUS & STRANGE
MARTIAL MEMORIES |
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There have been many things in my martial-arts training that have been difficult to explain. There have also been some things on my path of Budo that fell squarely within the realm of the supernatural...or the paranormal.
Like the time I met the mountain Tengu in Japan...READ MORE
Or the time the dojo became haunted with invisible, Japanese Kami...READ MORE |
