The May edition of Sword and Spirit has been posted. In “Loaded Guns,” Itten Dojo chief instructor Robert Wolfe responds to a recent and entirely unnecessary incident in the judo study group that resulted in injury, citing the fact that while in modern practice martial arts techniques have been “declawed” to make training safer for the general public, the claws have only been retracted, not removed, and are still present just beneath the surface. 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/91. All back issues of Sword and Spirit are available at https://www.ittendojo.org/articles/swordandspirit. #ittendojo #japanesemartialartscenter #iaido #jujutsu #judo #shodo