Itten Dojo

The May edition of Sword and Spirit has been posted. In “Hydration and Training,” guest contributor Erika Wolfe discusses the roles of water in the human body and notes potential consequences should proper hydration not be maintained. Download the newsletter by joining the Sword and Spirit group on Facebook, or directly from our website, at https://www.ittendojo.org/dbfiles/download/swordandspirit/pdf/67. All back issues of Sword and Spirit are available at https://www.ittendojo.org/articles/swordandspirit. #ittendojo #japanesemartialartscenter #aikijutsu #jujutsu #kenjutsu #iaido #shodo

  Reasons to Choose Itten Dojo • You will be a member, not a customer (we do not use contracts). • You will train in authentic, heritage martial arts with fully documented lineages tracing directly to Japan. • You will have regular access to some of the most-accomplished, highest-ranking instructors in the world. • Our dojo is widely recognized as an exceptional source for traditional training, supported and endorsed by the Japanese Martial Arts Center (Ann Arbor, Michigan), the Reigakudo Foundation (Tokyo, Japan), Takeshin Dojo and the Nihonden Aikibujutsu Senyokai (Salem, Massachusetts), the Yamabushi Jujutsu Aikijutsu Ryu Association (Bronx, New York), the Shudokan Martial Arts Association (Ann Arbor, Michigan), the Japanese Budo Association (Tokyo, Japan), and  Bugeisha Traditional Martial Artist  magazine (Kane’ohe, Hawai’i). • We maximize the training benefit to members by offering 90-minute classes and frequent open-mat periods. • Our class sizes are small, guaranteeing y

  THE LAST BUGEISHA A Tribute to Angel Lemus, by Peter Hobart With due respect to Robert Fulghum, almost everything I know, I learned as a bartender: • Welcome everyone through the door, but be ready to show it to them again if need be. • Treat a pauper like a princess, and a princess like a pauper. • There isn’t much that men (and women) of good faith can’t solve over a beer. • Clean as you go, and if someone drops a glass, clean that up for them as well. • Be nice. Be nice. Be nice (until it’s time to not be nice—this one courtesy of Roadhouse ). And the list goes on… Bartenders the world over will tell you that in this profession, you generally encounter two types of regulars: Those who want to tell you what they know, and those who want to ask you what you know. As a barkeep, I generally preferred dealing with clients of the former type, since they were usually easier to handle. In friends and colleagues, however, different metrics apply. Angel Lemus was deci