{"id":462,"date":"2009-08-29T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2009-08-29T07:50:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T13:50:02","slug":"abandoning-the-other-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Abandoning the other arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As those who train with me know, I have over the course of my short time in the martial arts tried many different styles.\u00a0 Karate, Judo, Aikido, Jujitsu and Chen style tai chi to name a few.\u00a0 There are even more that I have seen and not had a chance to try.\u00a0 Unfortunately I have abandoned the other arts.<\/p>\n<p>The Bujinkan consist of 9 schools and hundreds of of kata with ten&#8217;s of thousands of variations.\u00a0 There is enough information to spend 9 lifetimes studying.\u00a0 There is a depth of feeling and skill which I have yet to see reproduced in any other martial art, by any other martial artist besides Hatsumi Sensei.\u00a0 There is a breadth of knowledge which has literally saved the life of students and myself.<\/p>\n<p>When my life was on the line, it was saved by this Budo, as long as I have permission I will dedicate my martial arts training to the art of Hatsumi Sensei and his standard bearers.<\/p>\n<p>Your life is on the line, practise well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As those who train with me know, I have over the course of my short time in the martial arts tried many different styles.\u00a0 Karate, Judo, Aikido, Jujitsu and Chen style tai chi to name a few.\u00a0 There are even more that I have seen and not had a chance to try.\u00a0 Unfortunately I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-stuff","category-training-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}