Season -Plum Flower!

We visited the Shinto temple "YUKI JINJA" in TSU.

Plum blossoms of YUKI jinja are very well known.

   

 

 There are 300 plum (80 varitete) in the garden,They are like a curtain of flowers.

 

Before flowering cherry, one can look at plum blossoms.

YUKI JINJA

(Next to the temple, there is a DOJO of KENDO　et IAIDO )

The Aikido seminar in Brussels on 19 and 20 March 2016.

We add 2 albums of seminar in Brussels

YAMADA sensei:

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and Claude Berthiaume :

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How to hold a shinai/bokken correctly N°3

1)    Finger position

Grip of left hand is to hold Tsuka gashira (the edge of handle) by the little finger.  

It is very important to grip tsuka (handle) mainly by left hand rather than right hand, and the little finger and the ring finger grip very well, close the middle finger a little bit softer than the ring finger, and much softer with the forefinger.  Your thumb should be in a round shape. 

 

The right hand grip shinai or bokken as the left hand, but a little bit more softly than the left hand and put power into the little, ring, middle fingers and the index finger. 

 

 

The shape between your thumb and your index finger should be formed a letter “V”.

 

  

products in the photos:

Bokken :　http://www.sinonome-japan.com/en/japanese-bokken-standard/1750-japanese-bokken-kendo-gata-oak.html

Keikogi: http://www.sinonome-japan.com/en/japanese-kendo-equipment/2181-kendo-dogi-matsukan-ichiju-wash.html

Hakama :　http://www.sinonome-japan.com/en/kendo-hakama-japanese-indigo-kendo/2159-matsukan-hakama-kendo.html