Iaido Tanshinjuku

This past weekend we had our first, hopefully of many, Annual Tanshinjuku Iaido retreats. It was Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the mountains of North Park Colorado. It was open to all iaido students with a year of experience and at least 50% attendance. The retreat was held on a private ranch, adjacent to a National Forest with a snow-melt creek running through it. In addition to meals cooked on a wood stove, pleasant conversation, hiking, wading, archery, board games, fossil hunting and fly-casting lessons we managed to practiced iaido.

Article regarding stress fatigue in iaito blades. I hope you find it interesting.

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We have just launched a new website, iaidotsj.com and I wanted to share a post from the late Steven Shaw Sensei.

The Tree, Not the Blossom There are many lessons for us in every moment of our lives. We often neglect the importance of these moments because they seem so ordinary. For some reason we need our lives to hang in the balance …

Keiko-Hajime (First Class of 2020)

After class Saturday morning.

A year ago in Tokyo. Always looking for the next opportunity to go back and train with Okino Sensei.

Teaching in Veszprem, Hungary. It was a wonderful experience training with them.

Training in Tokyo under Okino Sensei

Big circles and big movements are also the way of the sword.

"Make all your movements big and clear - follow the instruction precisely without fail - only in this way can your develop strong technique and project your energy. Make your movements like the sun moving across the sky or a mountain trying to touch the heaven."
- Rev. Kensho Furuya

Chiburi by John Linzy

The Mori Ensemble