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Hey folks, I need help with my boken selections, but this request goes a little beyond the usual "which sort of wood should I use?" type thing. Basically I have noticed that there seems to be a huge difference in "Japanese white oak" bokens. I have seen some for as cheap as $25-30, and then...

Again, more food for thought, thanks guys. It's hard to explain jus how our instructor was changing things here in a few words, but as someone also said, we have 2 different teachers, so I can take bits from each one and this seems to work fine so far. Is a good idea about the seminars...

Wow thanks guys, there is HEAPS digest in there! Someone asked me if Ihave beento any seminars and I haven't. My jujitsu school goes to one every year though, maybe I should try that one just for the sake of new partners. As for talking about attacks/ing I was not so much worried about the...

Hey thanks for the response, I think you make some very good points. Now that u made me sit and think a little, we do practice jiyu-waza, as well as bokken/jo suburi and kata. For our shodan we have to know the 20 jo suburi, 7 bokken, the 13 and 31 jo kata, possibly a bokken kata as well. We...

Hi everyone, I'm new here, but from what I can tell there are quite a few students of Aikido here so I figured/hoped this would be a good place to get some opinions. I actually have a bunch of questions but will attack them one at a time :) Firstly I have been training for a little over 3.5...