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October 2011 Graduation

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October 2011 Graduation

October graduation was amazing! Congratulations to all of our colored belt graduates, and Katy Rodes Guerrero and her promotion to Second Degree Black Belt. Check out Katy’s incredible demo and the rest of graduation here.

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September 2011 Graduation

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September 2011 Graduation

Check out the recorded live broadcast of September’s graduation ceremony at the Dayton, Ohio, headquarters training hall. Congratulations to everyone who shared their success!

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Boulder 2011 Seminar Kuji 7

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Boulder 2011 Seminar Kuji 7

An-shu Stephen and An-shu Rumiko visited the Boulder Quest Center for an exciting, power-building seminar in August 2011. The weekend experience encouraged participants to break through limitations to new potentials through a combination of mind and martial exercises. The seminar started with a Friday night Dragon Body Ninja Yoga session with An-shu Rumiko. Dragon Body, from Japanese Seitai roots, focuses on energizing and clearing blood, lymph, nerve, and digestive systems. In addition to taijutsu martial training and instruction in the ninja kuji energy channeling, there were exciting...

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August 2011 Graduation

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August 2011 Graduation

Check out the recorded live broadcast of August’s graduation ceremony at the Dayton, Ohio, headquarters training hall. Congratulations to everyone who shared their success!

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Mountain Quest 2011

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Mountain Quest 2011

80 dedicated To-Shin Do practitioners gathered for our 12th annual Mountain Quest seminar with An-shu Stephen K. Hayes and hosts Richard Shuntoshi Stack and Hardee Hakutoshi Merritt, along with guest instructors Mike Dentoshi Ford, Hakim Intoshi Isler, and Dennis Fuutoshi Mahoney on Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. Participants traveled in from To-Shin Do training halls all across America, and as far away as Denmark for this unique presentation of An-shu’s “Nine Cuts – Nine Powers” teaching theme for 2011. Training featured tactics and techniques with the...

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The Real You Emerges

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The Real You Emerges

New students may wonder why we put so much emphasis on making a commitment to long-term training goals in the dojo. Why not just go lesson to lesson, continuing on as long as each class is entertaining and provides some new trick or secret to learn? It turns out that authentic martial arts training provides way more than just techniques and “moves” for fighting or performing. To be well prepared to respond to danger, you need to expand your current capabilities physically and broaden your present self-identity to a whole new range of possibilities. In the best school, through...

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