Gunyo Kogusoku

I was referring to learning swordsmanship from a book and then teaching it to students for money. If you haven't put the time in to actually learn what you are doing for a good period of time, (Minimum 7 years to a decade) then just don't teach that set of skills. That's how my previous pertains to this thread.

Attack me and you'll find out what weapons I carry.

Heiden bujutsu and Fuzoku ryu are Japanese terms for the auxilliary systems used in some koryu bujutsu ryuha.

Nah, it depends on the teacher you have and how his teacher taught. Not uncommon. There are some teachers in Japan who teach the Shinto-ryu & Uchida-ryu as a warmup in the dojo and then progress onto the Omote, chudan, etc, so that as your skills with the jo progress, so do the auxilliary weapons skills. Other teachers instruct in a different way, teaching the heiden bujutsu sometime after learning the chudan, or samidare. Case by case, mate.

Yeah, one of the koryu I train in have kusarigama techniques in it's syllabus. Very nasty. Dark Shogun, how far have you reached in the SMR Jo syllabus? Anywhere near Uchida-ryu tanjojutsu or Shinto-ryu kenjutsu?

If you haven't been taught, don't teach. If you do, you are lying to yourself and to your students. The worst kind of conceit.

Kenjutsu kata, depending on the ryuha (school) can be either very long or very short. Either way, if you have no experience in JSA and are relying on some sort of manual, stay away from the weapons.

Mate, if it isn't in your syllabus, don't do it. Simple as that. Pros can spot homemade forms a mile off. As a practicioner of classical Japanese martial arts, I do kenjutsu as well as jujutsu. If I added something like sword & hammer or Delayed sword to my jujutsu syllabus and said, "Hey this is part of my school!", what would your impression be?

Took me about 5 1/2 years.

Yeah, after Ikkaku-ryu juttejutsu (one SMRs fuzoku ryu), which does use a tessen in some techniques, Kiraku-ryu, Araki-ryu, Takenouchi-ryu definately have tessen in their syllabus, and I think maybe Daito-ryu might have a bit too.

Not trying to be disparraging, but pretty uneducated concerning history & culture, not to mention technique. But there are exceptions to that rule. Julian Mead and a few others who have actually gone over to Japan have done a fine job of bringing the good stuff home.

There are many ways of writing Sullivan (A fine Irish name if I say so too!) in Katakana and each one of them are right as long as the pronunciation sounds right to the user. サリーバン Simon Yates = サイモン　イアーツ 宜しく。 スティーブ　デレィーニ より

Stand her in the corner and have her do jodan uke for a whole lesson. Same for uchi uke, soto uchi uke and gedan barai uke. If she is really interested in learning, she'll put up and shut up. If not, she's wasting time which could be better spent teaching other students who are eager to learn. (My apologies, but I'm old fashioned in this respect.)

Tessenjutsu usually isn't an art taught on it's own. It's usually a supplemental art for jujutsu. Very few jujutsu ryuha in Japan teach the use of the weapon these days. BTW, Taiko in Japanese means drum. The little hand claws used by them thar ninjers are called "Shuko". They are also sometimes called Kumade (or bear claws).

Yes, I have heard of him. One of my friends has trained with him and they do very good karate as well as ryukyu kobujutsu. Very well thought of.