by Laurence Dumonceau Have you ever gone on holiday alone? If you have never done so, I advise you to do so: you are totally …
by Joe Hafner It’s us again – the Swiss Naginata Federation from Schaffhausen. After a great start in February 2022 at the Tokunaga Cup we …
by Aleksandra Kivisalu Two years ago, in the summer of 2020, in the midst of the worldwide depression caused by the Covid pandemic, the Estonian …
by Marie-Luise Göbel On 4th-5th of June a Naginata/Kendo seminar took place in Obernai, France under the guidance of David D’hose Renshi and Tyl Dermine, …
by Kirsi Hoglund Sweden hosted a seminar with Takami sensei, 5 dan renshi, on June 11th-12th . The focus of the seminar was supposedlybe bogu, but …
by Dylan Vellut Never would a grade change have been so significant: Shodan since 2019, it will have taken 2 years and 6 months of …
The night falls, the full moon rises on our right, huge and bright. It accompanies us along the road that brings us each one back …
by Jérémy Frandon I came to Canada to study. After graduating high school in Marseille, France, where I had lived until then, I enrolled at …
It is always a pleasure when we are called to animate a seminar and to participate in the refereeing of a tournament, especially if it …
On a beautiful Easter Sunday, the Belgian naginata team was invited to participate to a demonstration. But it was not just a simple demonstration, this …
by Stefano Carlini translation by Yolanda TO KNOW THE NAME OF THINGS AND NOT KNOW THEIR MEANING IS USELESS TO KNOW THE MEANING OF THINGS …
by Susanne Koch It’s never wrong to have a healthy exchange between different people. In conversation you get a different point of view or sometimes …
by Aleksandra Kivisalu The past few years have been eventful for us. We have registered the Estonian Naginata Federation, which now even includes two clubs. …
by Gur Nedzvetsky, A few weeks ago I had the honor of joining the Tokunaga Cup, an annual event organized by the french naginata community. …
by Ingo Põder Over the last two years most of naginata practicioners have had a periods of training alone, which has been less fun and …
Text: Marie-Luise Göbel The first and long-awaited ENF seminar since the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic was connected to great expectations. There were seven …
In Finland, we have been lucky: unlike many other countries, we have not had complete lockdowns even during the hardest times of the pandemic. But …
by Rachel HM from Great Britain My heart is warm when I reflect on how the ENF has continued to grow since Great Britain joined, …
by Francis Arnold from Great Britain I remember, not long after I started Naginata many years ago, having conversations with Japanese people about how I …
A Canadian reflects on a year-long naginata experience in Great Britain by Milton Chow It has been a whole year that I’ve spent in Great …
It was always my dream to have a dojo in my home. I kept telling my wife: “When I’ll build a house, I want to …
While today we find it easy to divide the Japanese martial arts to “koryu” (pre- 1868 meiji restoration martial art schools) and “gendai budo” (martial …
In January 2020 we begun preparing to the European Naginata Championship that was supposed to happen in Sweden. As there was a plan to have …
by Denis Fumagalli pictures from Tyl Dermine Hi everyone! I was asked if I could make a little article about how I came to practice …
by Emmanuel Dayre, picture selected by David D’hose from INF 1995 program When the air we were used to Got so deadly tough and rough …
Dear naginata practitioners, I’m sure you all have at least one naginata bags, an armor bag and many other things like that… But do you …
1) Choose well your habu : it can be an old one used full of splinters but not a broken one. You can see on …
article by Gaelle Hau and Laurence Dumonceau A good Kote is essential…but it is not always easy to find! Of course, you can send a …
In February 2020 the Netherlands registered their first corona patient. In March 2020 the Netherlands went into the first lockdown. On March 16th our first …
When I learnt Estonia had recently joined the Naginata congregation, I was very happy to hear about it. This immediately triggered fond memories of how …
The current pandemic has made conventional naginata practice impossible in many places over most of the last months. Even outdoor practice for groups was prohibited …
We keep on practicing, no matter if that’s in online training sessions or in Naginata-theory lessons
Unfortunately, no regular Naginata training is possible in Germany at the moment. And so we need a good head for improvisation. That’s why some naginata-ka …