It’s a chilly evening in Emeryville, where half-a-dozen martial arts students at a community center are practicing with katana. They kneel, jump and slash, then slowly mimic wiping blood off their ...

Bright Horizons, 1818 Centennial Dr., iaidotsj.org, 303-547-0298, Louisville on Thursdays; Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th Ave., Boulder on Saturdays Instructor: Steven Shaw Sensei says he was ...

As the regular season came to a close and the Big Ten Tournament began, the conference dished out its end-of-season awards. Ten different... “Hayward magic” is a concept discussed quite often in ...

TEHRAN The second Grand Kendo and Iaido (Samurai) Gathering of Iran was held here Friday in the presence of high-ranking Iranian and Japanese officials, great Japanese master of Samurai and senior ...

Lancing C. England Ed.S. holds a 9th Degree Black Belt in Satori-Ryu Iaido, under the instruction of Dale S. Kirby Sr., the founder. Then I saw a gentleman demonstrate techniques and movements with a ...

ITS past displays have seen fingers chopped off and arteries sliced open – and now some of the greatest British students of the Japanese art of Iaido are set to draw swords in Edinburgh. Did you know ...

DEERPARK — Local folks have taken a liking to an unusual pastime — Japanese swordsmanship. Samurai training is being conducted at Karate Quest Dojo in the lower level of the Planet Fitness building, ...

A nondescript graffiti-covered industrial building stands at 168 Wai Yip Street in Kwun Tong. It is the last place anyone would expect to find a martial arts dojo, yet the fourth floor is home to the ...

Tokyo, Feb. 22 (Reuters): With Tom Cruise acting the warrior in The Last Samurai, and Uma Thurman set to slice her way to revenge in part two of the action movie Kill Bill this spring, Japanese ...

What prompted the idea for the course? When I was very young, I was intrigued by swords. Maybe that was a result of watching too many sword scenes from Errol Flynn movies. At any rate, the result was ...