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 …
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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 …