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The Road to Rocroi
Combining approaches and insights from cultural, social and military history this study traces the evolution and decline of the Spanish officer corps and general staff during the Eighty Years War in connection with contemporary trends such as modernization and aristocratization.
KODOKAN JUDO ATEMI WAZA (English).
When Shihan Jigoro Kano developed his new method of jujutsu, Kodokan Judo, he established three major technical groups: nage waza, katame waza and atemi waza. It has been more than 130 years since the founding of Judo and both, techniques and goals have evolved in different ways. Nowadays, judo is practiced mainly as a sport competition, giving priority to nage waza and katame waza, while atemi waza and the study of vital points (kyusho) are hardly practiced. After many years of researching, compiling and translating old writings with Jigoro Kano's opinion about atemi and self-defense, we have performed this study of the official classification of atemi and kyusho, where are included unpublished documents of the founding master of Judo. Color book.
Tenjin Shinyo Ryu Jujutsu (English)
Tenjin Shinyo Ryu was one of the most complete and renowned schools of traditional jujutsu of XIX century in Japan. It is considered as the father of Kodokan Judo, where Jigoro Kano borrowed this atemi waza, katame waza, nage waza and kappo waza among many other techniques. As has happened with other koryu, Tenjin Shinyo Ryu is hardly practiced today. Fortunately, after extensive research, we have recovered information from the past and ancient documents that have been of great help in carrying out this work. We have conducted a study about its history, its lineage, its curriculum with all the kata, vital points of the body, the characteristic kamae of this school, its techniques in idori and tachiai as well as the famous kappo waza. With this work, we put at the service to all lovers of Japanese martial arts the extraordinary beauty and singularity of the Tenjin Shinyo Ryu Jujutsu.
Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain
During a pivotal point in Spanish history, aristocrat María de Guevara (?–1683) produced two extraordinary essays that appealed for strong leadership, protested political corruption, and demanded the inclusion of women in the court’s decision making. “Treaty” gave Philip IV practical suggestions for fighting the war against Portugal and “Disenchantments” counseled the king-to-be, Charles II, on strategies to raise the country’s status in Europe. This annotated bilingual edition, featuring Nieves Romero-Díaz’s adroit translation, reproduces Guevara’s polemics for the first time. Guevara’s provocative writings call on Spanish women to bear the responsibility equally with men for restoring Spain’s power in Europe and elsewhere. The collection also includes examples of Guevara’s shorter writings that exemplify her ability to speak on matters of state, network with dignitaries, and govern family affairs. Witty, ironic, and rhetorically sophisticated, Guevara’s essays provide a fresh perspective on the possibilities for women in the public sphere in seventeenth-century Spain.
Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
In Charles II, Ronald Hutton, Britain's foremost historian of the English Restoration, offers a comprehensive biography of the king who returned to England in triumph after the death of Cromwell, re-establishing the monarchy that continues to reign to this day. Hutton reveals the excitement and tragedy of Charles's youth, as the realm erupted into savage civil war, leading to the execution of his father King Charles I at the hands of the rebellious Parliament. He offers a vivid account of Charles's long, desperate struggle to claim his crown, which included the catastrophic invasion of Cromwell's England that ended in a lonely flight, as he hid in orchards, ditches, and the famous Boscobel O...
KATAME WAZA URA NO KATA (English)
The Katame Waza Ura no Kata is the method of counter techniques in Ne Waza created by the master Kazuo Ito (9th Dan) in the 1960s thanks to the teachings of his master; the great Kyuzo Mifune (10th Dan). From the point of view of combat on the ground, this method effectively instructs in a multitude of aspects and principles. The kata was designed to counterattack the techniques of Katame no Kata, using its structure, order in the execution of the techniques and protocol. But the Katame Waza ura no Kata has an even greater scope and can be practiced in a more open and flexible way, providing the student with a great variety of ways to defend himself against various attacks of Joint Lock, immobilization and strangulation. Once again, the Kano Ryu International School together with the International Traditional Kodokan Judo (ITKJ) rescue ancient kata that should never have died out. The Kodokan Judo created by Jigoro Kano and protected and preserved by his main students must remain alive and present at any time for the benefit of all humanity.
Te Hodoki - Traditional Jujutsu
Within the evolution that the Japanese martial arts have had during the last centuries, survive techniques that were developed in feudal Japan for real combat, for war or for survival itself, an example is the Hodoki waza or escape techniques or release. The aim of the Hodoki waza was mainly to free itself from a grip that prevented the weapon from being grasped so that once released from the grip it could be used. Escape techniques currently play an important role in any method of self-defense, since they are the bridge between the first reaction of the attacked and the subsequent technical defense sequence. We consider necessary in any school of budo / bujutsu or self-defense the serious a...
