{"id":225,"date":"2008-11-13T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2008-11-13T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T05:40:17","slug":"my-faith-in-the-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"My faith in the techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be questions which many people have about if the techniques can work.\u00a0 At first I though this was a fooling thing to be asking, but maybe not so much now.\u00a0 If you have questions of if your techniques will work agaist someone bigger and stronger then either you have learnt the techniques wrong or your are being taught something other than Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu.<\/p>\n<p>Too many people seem to thing that the techniques that they are being taught are ineffective then look at them again.\u00a0 Find someone who can do them against an opponent while using no strength.\u00a0 Look for a good Shihan who has the solid technique and understanding of what Hatsumi Sensei and the Shihan are doing.\u00a0 One who will correct you when you are doing something wrong.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t get someone who says &#8220;no&#8221; when you don&#8217;t get it, someone who will point you in the right direction you are in trouble.\u00a0 These techniques, this feeling that Hatsumi Sensei is trying to pass on can save your life.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to have teachers which built a foundation and desire to look at what is good and even question what I was being taught.\u00a0 Then I was fortunate enough to go to Japan several times to continue my learning.\u00a0 The information is out there sometimes it is hard to find bu you can get to it.<\/p>\n<p>Your life is on the line, practice your well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be questions which many people have about if the techniques can work.\u00a0 At first I though this was a fooling thing to be asking, but maybe not so much now.\u00a0 If you have questions of if your techniques will work agaist someone bigger and stronger then either you have learnt the techniques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-at-home","category-training-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}