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Japanese katana can have exquistite handguards or tsubas. Auction catalogues of the most beautiful specimens shows the amazing craftsmanship of their creation, when one uses chisels to “paint metal”. These videos which show a modern recreation of a missing tsuba to pair the existant wakazaki tsuba are fascinating.

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First Five of Aikido

So yesterday while with Miles, I mentioned this old book I had read in the context of headbutting, namely “Secret Fighting Arts of the World” by John F. Gilbey.

Miles had read it too and remembered the story about the “dinky little poke” which was this “secret technique” where a precise shot (aimed thru hit up thru chin to cerebullum?) would rattle the brain and cause KOs. The book also has a neat one about someone weaponized breath and one with a Kiai master.
[mind you in the book the guy gives a very powerful exhalation that stuns the consciousness of the author of the book, not this humming]