Ed Glimme Budo - Martial Arts, Qi Gong, Yoga, Sword Instruction LaCrosse WI

**Announcement** We are moving all of the content of Ed Glimme Budo - Martial Arts, Qi Gong, Yoga, Sword Instruction LaCrosse WI over to the Ethereal Gateless Barrier FB page. This page will be closing down Feb. 10, 2023.

We are updating all of our marketing material and this is a step in that process. Classes, postings and comments will be covered at the Warrior Training Hall page.

I will be opening up a Ed Glimme Budo group for conversations and topics to talk about with the folks training with me.

Best Regards,
~Ed

We have new guardians of the warrior hall and preservers of warrior knowledge to keep an eye on us during class. 👺

Tonight class was a moving through or around the center line attack. Sword - sword, spear - sword, naginata - sword, empty hand and empty hand - knife.
Good stuff to explore and learn. 😎

The last two days in meditation and in martial arts have had the theme of Fire and Wind. 🔥💨

From elemental qi gong to the Ankh. From Japanese Bujutsu to HEMA. ⛩️🤼🤺

What do we do when you have a house guest for the week and they buy a new sword at RenFest?

We have a sword cutting night !!!

Tonight was a fun look at Togakure Ryu. I lot of surprised ukes as nothing is as it appears yet the techniques are real. Empty hand and short sword.

Tonight in martial arts was an organic class. We started with martial against the knife. Then went into breaking balance against the knife. Followed by locks and throws against the knife.

We all had problems with being sloppy. So we addressed a problem or two the each student felt they needed to clean up and worked out the problems. Very spontaneous in the beginning into a clear understand of what each student felt they needed to work on.

Good stuff.

There is still room for a few more students. 👍😎

Tonight in martial arts was a refresher of the basic ways of striking, locking and throwing through movement. 😊

Tonight another look at Koto Ryu - Yokuto (scooping and throwing). A closer look at the throwing aspect of the form. Mostly empty hand, then with staff and sword, followed by sword and sword.

Last night was a first look at Koto Ryu - Yokuto no Kata (scoop and throw). We looked at structure, footwork, various striking points and thows. We used knife, buckler and short sword, bokken and jo all within the framework of yokuto to help better understand. Heck, I even almost got knocked out by a strike to the wrong point. I'm ok, just ended up with a headache. 😎

Tonight's class was a request for bojutsu. We focused on structure within the form which crisps up the kata and helps being precise in application withing the teachings.

Working with Koto Ryu hira, hoko and bobbi no katas tonight. Empty hand, knife and sword.

🙏

AJBA suggest You to read this beautiful text ✅🥇👉
Every martial arts student needs to read this statement from Fumio Demura Sensei:

"The person you refer to as 'Sensei' is in that position for a valid reason. It seems today I hear a lot of former students or ex-black belts disrespecting their Sensei for a myriad of reasons. In order to better help you understand why a Sensei deserves, or let me put it a better way, demands your respect let me lay it out for you.

The Sensei is the one who has dedicated their life to the art they teach you. You will never have as many years of dedication in because you came after them.

The Sensei is the one who spent many days and nights opening their dojo, cleaning it, making it better…for YOU.
The Sensei is the one who has made sacrifices you will never understand just so you have a place to train, to learn and gain in your art.

The Sensei is the one who, often at great costs, has given up their free time, their family time…time they could be out doing many other things just so you can learn and train.

The Sensei is the one who has invested thousands of dollars in their own training just to learn how to teach you properly.

The Sensei is the one who has often broken bones, but still showed up to teach class. Torqued muscles, tendons and had strains but still showed up to teach class. Had a migraine, was sick, had a bad day…but still showed up to teach class. All these things are excuses why you miss class.

The Sensei often goes without so that the dojo and students will be taken care of. This means they give up having nice things at times, vacations, going out to dinner, hanging out with friends and family…all so you can learn Karate.

The Sensei has spent more time in a dojo than most of you that train with them have been alive.

The Sensei is the one who is always there for your training…
The Sensei quite often sees a need and fills a need for their students. They see that poor kid who has little of anything and needs sparring gear and they just go ahead and get it for them. They see the student who is struggling to come up with funds to buy their own weapons for Kobudo and just buys extras so they can participate. They see their adult students losing their jobs and says “Don’t worry about paying til you’re caught up”. This is the role the Sensei plays and it demands respect.

I can sit here and think of a thousand more reasons why you should never, ever disrespect your Sensei too…but, in all honesty, I shouldn’t have to. I shouldn’t have had to even write this blog…but, then again, people live in a shallow world these days. Perhaps we should step out of it, be bigger and better, and then the world will change. Respect your Sensei, take care of your Sensei, honor your Sensei…because, one day, your Sensei will no longer be around."

- Fumio Demura Sensei

Tonight we took a first pass from shoshin to zanshin and mushin with sword. We did touch on fudoshin but not an easy place to reach from shoshin the first time exploring these things.

Tonight was more Koto Ryu - "Tiger Knockdown School." A bit banged up but no worse for the wear. Techniques empty hand, empty hand - sword and a bit of sword - sword with a few extra tools of the arts thrown in for good measure. 🐅

Tonight we worked on teachings of the Water Scroll from the Go Rin no Sho (Book of Five Rings). Muto dori (empty hand vs. sword) and kenjutsu (sword art).

Tonight we started Koto Ryu and covered seigan no kamae (clear eye stance) empty hand and with sword and hoko no kamae (bear stance) empty hand and with training shuko (hand claws) empty hand and application against sword.

The holidays season is upon us and I know it can be tough to make it in to train. We are still here and training. See you throughout the season.

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Class tonight 6:00-8:00pm. Room max is 6 students. We have 2 spots open.

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Covered a lot of subtitles of bio mechanics and application with sword in a private class.

Then in Meditation class we learned about a fundamental pattern of nature. When sat down we applied color theory to this fundamental pattern to experience the teaching through our various creation centers.

Good stuff.

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Tonight in Martial Arts we covered Aiki wrist turn out from wrist grab, lapel grab, straight punch and backhand knife slash from a very fire - wind perspective with a lot of discussion on why something may or may not be Budo.

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Tonight in Martial Arts it was good to have returning students work on old school practices for striking and trapping. 👍😎

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Tonight was survival on the ground empty hand vs. knife, machete, short sword and hand spear. There is a working formula to this progression and a direct communication with the nervous system.

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Hand spear tonight. Standing to knees and down on your back and back up. While defending and attacking.

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A fun Thursday night of cutting at www.EtherealGatelessBarrier.com with Ed Glimme Budo.

Covering ground work from the Brazilian and Russian perspectives this week. We have room for just a few more people.

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New student asking for help with his MMA. Covering how people work from Russian Martial Arts perspective stand up, up against the wall (cage) and on the ground. 😎

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Weds Martial Arts was hand spear free play. With progressions into other things with off hand.

Thurs Martial Arts was intro to Russian Martial Arts. Systema Striking 101 and bio-machanics.

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