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 …
In Japan, everybody knows. That day, disaster struck Japan threefold and the nation stood still. I also remember that day. When I heard about the …
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 …
We are living in turbulent times. The pandemic and its counter measurers are causing us to be apart.The world around is getting harder while people …
The ENF bases its technical criteria for passing Dan grades on the criteria of the INF, which itself bases its criteria for passing grades on …
The beginning of Atarashii Naginata in Estonia can be considered as the year 2017, when the teaching of this beautiful martial art began. There was …
Most of us are confined home because of this pandemia. You all have different way to distract beside home work. Unfortunately it is not easy …
Dear Naginata friends, Currently I am writing to you from the couch while with a melancholic mind. I think of wanting to return to the …
On February 8th and 9th France organized the Tokunaga Cup, the Jacques Mercier Cup and the Simone Charton Cup. As every year these events were …
In the minutes of the INF General Assembly of 2019 the following was written: “JPN representatives reminds that the AJNF has a fund (Ikeshima Fund) …
Every now and then, I hear a sentence which sounds about the following “Naginata is cool, but I don’t feel like competing. I just want …
I wanted to write this little note in order to try to clarify the vision we have about Naginata’s Federations as you are actually part …
The 2019 ENF seminar took place in Braga, Portugal under the direction of Imaura sensei with the help of our technical director. It was the …