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, …
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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 …
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 …
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 …