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Taikyoku Araki-ryu Pacific Northwest

 




"Make your practice a friend in the morning,

and your discipline a pillow at night."





In the Portland OR area DM Chris for inquiries.


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Recommended Reading List

There are many resources available for information on classical Japanese martial arts, with popular and scholarly sources in English readily accessible. This Recommended Reading List is updated from time to time as more work is published. Online Resources  Check out  Kogen Budo  for writings by Ellis and others on classical martial traditions.  Koryu.com  gives a good general sense of the modern practice of classical Japanese martial disciplines. This article   at Budo Japan this one by Dr. Karl Friday. Dr. Friday has various writings online and in print addressing and re-assessing Japanese warrior culture in light of ongoing scholarly research. Everything he writes has relevance and informs how we approach practice.  This old thread on E-Budo giving an idea of our approach, including thoughts by Chris and Ellis Amdur: Popular Sources on Classical Martial Arts Good reading for a general introduction to the study of classical traditions would be ...
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Principles and Parameters of Our Practice

  Our study  focusses on the pattern-practice ( kata ) of Araki-ryū’s close combat catalogue ( torite  and  kogusoku ), with additional emphasis on practical considerations, as most of Araki-ryū’s close quarters kata apply nearly “as is” to modern-day  apprehension and ambush survival  situations where edged weapons are involved.   How  they are trained is our primary concern.  Our expression of Taikyoku’s innovative model allows us to explore new and divergent practice methods of these two aspects of the traditional curriculum. Close combat is violent, and involves intense interactions of physical force and opposing will.  The modern tactical training term for this is force-on-force (FoF). Practice that does not include FoF has been decried as “empty forms” and mere choreography for hundreds of years.  This does not mean simply turning patterns into “freestyle fighting” however. Engagements are constrained by the tactical cons...
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