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Smaa Journal Vol. 20, Issue 1 2015 SMAA JOURNAL Shudokan Martial Arts Association ▪ PO Box 6022, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-6022 http://smaa-hq.com/ ▪ [email protected] ▪ 1-734-645-6441 ANNOUNCEMENTS OBJECTIVES OF THE SMAA 2015 SMAA DUES 1. To promote and aid in the growth of Japan’s traditional arts and ways. Membership fees were due on January 1, 2015. Please be sure to pay your SMAA dues on time. You 2. To assist the public in achieving spiritual can either send a check to our headquarters or pay growthand physical development through online at http://www.smaa-hq.com/payments. budo/bujutsu. php. We accept Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal. This 3. To further friendship and understanding is a quick and safe way to make your annual SMAA between Asian and Western martial artists. membership payment. 4. To establish goodwill and harmony among We appreciate our members paying dues promptly. martial artists of various systems. It makes life easier for the SMAA staff of 5. To offer Western martial artists access to volunteers, and it is representative of the type of legitimate budo/bujutsu organizations and self-discipline we are cultivating throuGh the study teachers in Japan. of traditional Japanese martial arts. 6. To give practitioners of authentic budo/bujutsu recognition for their years of DONATIONS & TAX DEDUCTIONS devotion to these arts. The SMAA is a federally tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation. As such, your donations to our BOARD OF DIRECTORS association are tax deductible. Send your ▪ Karl Scott Sensei donations, in the form of a check or money order ▪ Nicklaus Suino Sensei (made out to SMAA), to our headquarters in ▪ H. E. Davey Sensei Michigan. We’ll send you a letter back acknowledging your contribution, which you can then use for tax purposes. We hope you’ll support Editor: H. E. Davey Sensei the SMAA in our goal to preserve and promote Assistant Editor: Troy Swenson Sensei traditional budo and koryu bujutsu. Webmaster: Don Prior Sensei General Manager: Nicklaus Suino Sensei E-MAIL Please make sure we have your correct e-mail address. Without this address, we can’t e-mail you the SMAA Journal. Vol. 20, Issue 1 SMAA Journal Page 2 IIssueI2 Do you have a new e-mail address? Have you sent it To order, go to the “Payments” section of to [email protected]? If not, we also won’t be able www.smaa-hq.com or send a check or money order to send you SMAA publications, so please be sure to made out to “SMAA” to: let us know if your e-mail address changes. SMAA HQ PO Box 6022 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-6022 SMAA PATCHES USA The SMAA HQ is selling official SMAA patches for your gi. They’re great looking patches that embody FACEBOOK PAGE the spirit and honor instilled in members of our group. They won’t fade or bleed when you bleach them, and yet we’ve been able to keep the cost down. Each patch is basically a 3 ½ inch circle Have you been to the SMAA Facebook page? If not, featuring our logo below: you’re missing out on the latest SMAA news, features, videos, photos, and information. It’s easy and safe to join Facebook, and all you need to do is click the “Like” button to become a follower of our Facebook page. This is the fastest way to get SMAA news and updates, and we hope you’ll drop by http://www.facebook.com/ShudokanMartialArtsAss ociation and check it out. Once you’re on Facebook, we hope you’ll share our page with your friends and Our patches were produced using state of the art help us promote the SMAA. digitizing and ultra-modern technology to create an accurate and attractive embroidered emblem. They SMAA ONLINE PAYMENTS feature tight stitches, sharp detail, clean lettering, Did you know you can pay for your annual dues at and top quality craftsmanship. There’s no jagged our website using PayPal or a major credit card? You stitching, but we’ve still got plenty of stitches so that can, and you can also pay for gi patches and the background doesn’t show through. promotions in the same way. This is a much faster, and in some ways more secure, means of sending The patch should be worn on the left side of your gi money to our headquarters. We hope more of our jacket near your heart. SMAA policy mandates only members will make use of this feature. Just drop by one patch per uniform to maintain the sense of http://smaa-hq.com/payments.php for more dignity associated with traditional budo. information. These new patches are a great way to show your respect and enthusiasm for our group; we hope all THE BEST OF THE SMAA JOURNAL CD-ROM of our members will order at least one. And the best To celebrate its 15th anniversary in 2009, the SMAA part is the patches are only $5.00 (US) each! (E-mail created a special CD-ROM that contained a sampling [email protected] about special shipping for of some of the best stories and articles to appear in international orders.) the SMAA Journal since 1994. We mailed this free of charge to everyone in the SMAA as a way of showing our appreciation to our members. Page 3 SMAA Journal Vol. 20 Issue 1 41IIssueI2 Although our anniversary has past, it’s still not too late to get a copy of this CD-ROM, which is packed with hard to find information about budo and koryu bujutsu. For $8.95, plus $3.00 shipping and handling ($5.00 outside the USA), we’ll send you The Best of the SMAA Journal. Send your check or money order to the SMAA HQ. Supplies are limited to the number of CDs remaining. SUINO SENSEI NEWS From Chaos to Kata Suino Sensei has also launched an interesting new project called From Chaos to Kata, which you can read more about here: http://chaos2kata.com/ Leadership_Training.html. The website offers this explanation: TourinG Japan—Suino Sensei (far left in blue) and Martin Sensei (center with jacket) See, feel and discuss the way martial arts principles relate to leadership situations. In March, Nicklaus Suino Sensei, SMAA Judo Division Learn from the experiences of other leaders. Director, took several of his students to Japan, where Participants in the Chaos to Kata workshop they studied iaido, karate-do, and judo with several experience a lot—and sit and listen very of his Japanese friends that are high-rankinG little! teachers of budo. While in Tokyo, they met up with Paul Martin Sensei, an SMAA Senior Advisor living in ñ Learn about body language as taught Japan, who took them on a tour of the Japanese in martial arts and its expression in Sword Museum. real-life situations. ñ Experiment with various ways to manage—and lead—through chaos. ñ Identify the steps in our kata. ñ Apply the Kata to real management situations. ñ Identify your default way of approaching chaotic situations. You will leave with a tangible and practical tool—the Kata for Chaos—which you can immediately begin to apply, practice, Suino Sensei practicing judo while touring Japan personalize, and perfect! Vol. 20, Issue 1 SMAA Journal Page 4 IIssueI2 OTSUKA SOKE NEWS in throwing darts and the use of a weighted chain.) He offered instruction in the shuriken techniques he inherited from Someya Chikatoshi Soke. Otsuka Sensei, a published author of budo books, is one of the highest-ranking martial artists in Japan and one of very few people in the world teaching an authentic system of shuriken-jutsu. His participation in the SMAA points to the value of the work our group is doing internationally to promote and preserve genuine Japanese budo and koryu bujutsu. He lives in Ichikawa-Shi, Chiba, Japan and teaches throughout Japan, Europe, and the USA. The SMAA is active around the world and lead by both Western and Japanese martial arts experts. Otsuka Sensei is just one of a number of prominent martial arts teachers in Japan, who actively support our association and validate the ranks issued by the SMAA. Otsuka Soke throwing shuriken in Japan In March, Otsuka Yasuyuki Soke left Japan to teach a Meifu Shinkage Ryu seminar in Saskatchewan, Canada. (Meifu Shinkage Ryu was influenced by Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu, and it specializes Otsuka Soke also recently had a new English language book published. Titled Meifu Shinkage Ryu: Fundo Kusarijutsu—Shurikenjutsu, it is being distributed through Tengu Press in Germany. Someya Soke Page 5 SMAA Journal Vol. 20 Issue 1 41IIssueI2 These are the details: width: 16.3 cm, length 23.5 cm, 152 pages, soft cover. To order the book, send e-mail to [email protected]. MARTIN SENSEI NEWS In March, Paul Martin Sensei appeared on the Travel Channel with Expedition Unknown presenter Josh Gates. In the television show, Gates travels to Japan to track down a lost samurai sword that is believed to have supernatural powers. His search takes him from the underground nightlife of Tokyo to the country's snow-capped mountains. Along the way, Martin Sensei examines a rare sword Martin Sensei studied under top sword appraisal experts, sword smiths, and sword restorers in Japan for numerous years. He maintains a fascinating website (www.thejapanesesword.com), and he is the author of The Japanese Sword Guide to Nyusatsu Kantei. He has been featured on the BBC, BBC Radio 4, the History Channel, Los Angeles JATV, and Japan's NHK TV.
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