The Iaido Newsletter
A publication of shared distribution dedicated to the Japanese sword arts, Iaido, Kendo and the Koryu A Sei Do Kai Publication (Incorporating the OKF News) http://www.uoguelph.ca/~iaido	Vol 11/3 #100 Mar 1999 $5.00 per issue PHOTOCOPY AND SHARE THIS NEWSLETTER! http://www.uoguelph.ca/~kataylor

AUSTRALIA David Kolb, 30 Neville St. Kangaroo Point, Qld. 4169 Australia.

BALTICS Tonis Kunnus, Kalatsova kula, Meremae EE2751, Voru maakond, Estonia.

BELGIUM: Erik Pooters Wittestraat 9 Kiel, Antwerpen 2020 Belgie.

CANADA CENTRAL Sandra Jorgenson, 77 Harbour Sq. #3310 Toronto Ont. M5J 2S2.

CANADA EAST Robert Miller, 45 Cedar Cr. Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 4S9.

CANADA WEST Barry Wiseman, 11038 Greenwood Dr. Mission B.C. V4S 1A9.

CENTRAL EUROPE Zsolt Balassy, H-1046 Budapest, Toth A. u. 19. Hungary.

DENMARK Bjarne Blichfeldt Katholm 210 3670 Vekso Denmark.

ENGLAND Douglas Evans 10 Daglish Close, New Romney, Kent TN28 8XF.

FINLAND Pasi Hellsten, Luuvaniementie 4 D 126, SF-00350 Helsinki, Finland.

GERMANY Klaus Wissmath, Rathenaustrasse 9A, D-91052 Erlangen.

HOLLAND Johan Smits, Dunant Straat 866 Zoetermeer Netherlands 2713 XJ.

JAPAN Colin Hyakutake, Matsubara 4 Chome 6-19, Saga City, Saga Ken, Japan 840.

NEW ZEALAND Hamish Robison 15 Logan Tce. Parnell, Auckland.

SWEDEN Arne Oster, Akerogatan 2, S-417 28 Goteborg.

SWITZERLAND Nicolae G. Bialokur, 18 ch. Champ-Soleil, 1012 Lausanne, Suisse.

USA EAST J.S.S. PO Box 1119 Rockefeller Stn. New York, NY USA 10185.

USA HAWAII Hunter Armstrong, 315 Foothills Dr., Sedona, AZ 86336.

USA S-CENTRAL John Ray, 1909 Archer Trail, Denton TX, 76201.

USA WEST COAST Bill Howell, 2525 NE 23rd St. Portland Oregon, 97212.

100 ISSUES

Volume 1 Number 1 Absolute #1 of The Iaido Newsletter was issued in November of 1989. It was 3½ pages long and was mailed to maybe 15 people. I wonder how many of those have the complete set of issues. Looking at the list I'd say two folks beside me have a shot at it.

There has been a lot of words printed since that first issue, in TIN and in the Journal of Japanese Sword Arts (which is the "expanded version" of TIN). Although I've tried to get rid of it, I still edit TIN and it still gets distributed by a faithful network of volunteers all over the world who get it from me and then photocopy and mail it on. Hell we were the internet of iaido before the WWW was invented. A while ago I thought I'd replace TIN with JJSA, then I swore I'd kill it at issue 100 since editing two monthlies is a bit of a chore.

I haven't the heart. When I think of the distributors who have been with us for a decade, and when I think of the letters and phone calls I've received from some of the most unexpected places on earth, I just can't do it. This little publication that began as a way to get enough people gathered together so we could invite some Japanese sensei to teach us, has gathered in more students to the sword arts than I can imagine. I'm still looking for another editor, but I won't kill TIN just yet. Oh, and next year will be our tenth seminar with Matsuo Haruna, the sensei we invited that first time.

It's all been done by volunteers, and from the sales of videos and manuals. We have never sought advertisers, but a few have come forward over the years and they have helped some too.

But the writers. I remember so well the first time I waved an issue in front of my sensei and shouted "I haven't written a single word for this one!" An amazing feeling, it was as if I had finally realized that iaido would survive and grow. I didn't get another feeling like that until my daughter walked out of the house to school for the first time.

To all those involved with TIN and JJSA, thanks for a huge part of my life, I can hardly imagine what the next ten years will bring.

Kim Taylor, editor, TIN and JJSA. Now also editor of the CKF NEWS.

COMING EVENTS

S. AFRICAN SEMINAR INVITATION

The sensei who will be officiating are:

NOMASA Toyotoshi (8th dan kendo, hanshi) Japan

SETO Yoshinao (7th dan kendo, kyoshi; 7th dan iaido, kyoshi) Japan

IRII Tokuaki (7th dan kendo, kyoshi) Japan

KUMPF Uwe (6th dan kendo, 2nd dan Iaido) Germany

ISHIMARU Teruaki (5th dan kendo) South Africa

The provisional schedule is:

Friday 9th - evening - welcome party

Saturday 10th - am/pm - kendo seminar

- evening - kendo practice

Sunday 11th-am/pm -kendo seminar

- evening - iaido (koryu) ?

Monday 12th - am/pm - kendo seminar

- evening - kendo/iaido practice

Tuesday 13th - am - kendo seminar

- pm - grading to sandan & friendly competition

- evening - sayonara party

The cost for the seminar (including welcome party) is R600 (approx. US$100 or Euro 75 or UK Pounds 60). The sayonara party cost is R60

Grading fees are as per European Kendo Federation guidelines.

For anyone interested in making the long journey to our beautiful and fascinating country, we will, as far as possible arrange private accommodation at no cost. For those who do come, add on a few extra days for some sightseeing.

Anyone interested, please contact me directly as follows:

Telephone +2711-887-3016

Fax +2711-440-8298

Email sefor@icon.co.za

If you telephone please remember that we are in the GMT+2 hours time zone.

Buster Sefor

Technical Director

SEMINAR REPORTS

INTERNATIONAL BUDO SEMINAR

I'm on my way home from the 11th International Budo Seminar at the Nihon Budokan Kenshu Center and the International Budo University in Chiba (90 minutes north of Tokyo). It's a five hour train ride. The seminar was fantastic. Non-Japanese martial artists from all over Japan get together (subsidized by the Ministry of Ed.) for 4 days of Budo lectures and training. I had to skip out half-way through the 3rd day to go home and help take care of the kids, but I really would have loved to have stayed for the whole thing.

It started on Friday afternoon with demos by the shihan level instructors who would be teaching the hands on classes. Seki Sensei from the Aikikai Hombu, 2 Judo world champions (and more in attendance), Sumo, Naginata, Jukendo (bayonet), Karatedo, Shorinji kempo, Kyudo, and Kendo. That night we had a open training in the dojo, so I got to do jodo with guys from Tokyo and elsewhere around Japan. What a rush.

Saturday started with "Experiencing a New Budo" where you went and tried something you've never done before. I did Jukendo. Very intense stuff, and all about entering, since you've only got one attack with a bayonet. You thrust to the throat, the left upper chest (heart), the left side, and the back of the left hand. The teachers were seventh and eighth dan instructors.

After that, we had an hour to do our main budo, if it was represented. I got to work out with the International Budo University Judo Team. These kids are very good, and very dedicated. Thank goodness the Sensei's emphasized that this was to be light randori rather than the usual kill and eat anyone you can that the college students do. I played around a lot, and got up the gumption to ask Kashiwazaki Sensei (yeah, THAT Kashiwazaki) to do one round of randori with me. Later, another attendee who has been going for many years told me that this was the first time anyone had done this. Oh well, Sensei seemed to enjoy it. He took the time during the break to show my the choke he kept taking me out with. I also had a lot of fun working with the college kids, especially as they decided that I wasn't too fragile and started attacking me a little. Great fun.

In the afternoon we had a lecture on the history and development of the philosophy Judo, presented by Naoki Murata, curator of the Kodokan Historical Museum in Tokyo. This was followed by a panel discussion titled THE DIRECTION OF JAPANESE BUDO IN THE AGE OF INTERNATIONALISATION- THE PARTICIPATION OF BUDO AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES. This was not as good as it could have been, since all of the Japanese participants advocate budo sports. It would have been more interesting to hear from some who disagree with the idea. Of course, it was also a hard audience for the panelists, since most of the people at the seminar train in at least one koryu budo, and so we tend to be biased against budo sports to begin with. (I have to admit that the idea of women's sumo just doesn't excite me).

After dinner, the big dojo at the Budokan Center was open again, so most of the participants went there and trained. The scene in the dojo was really incredible. About 100 martial artists from a variety of styles (besides the above mentioned arts, there was also Iaido, Jodo, Koryu Jujutsu and a couple of sogo koryu arts), all training together. It was a like a scene from a bad martial arts movie, where the villain is showing off his army of deadly martial artists. It was also FANTASTIC!!!

I did Jodo for a couple of hours, and then we packed up because we had been told the dojo would be closed at 10:00PM. I wondered over and started doing some Judo with Mark Gorsuch of the Iaido and Aikido Lists. Then we watched an Aikikai person teach the 31 step jo kata to someone from Yoshinkan (she was having a blast learning it). Then we got drafted into a discussion of sankyo techniques, which segued into me showing some choking techniques. We finally wrapped it up around midnight to get some beer and join the crowd in the lobby talking about all things, budo and otherwise.

When I dragged out of bed this Sunday morning, I grabbed a shower to try and wake up after not nearly enough sleep, and headed for breakfast (the food was great. I ate more than the 5,800 nyen seminar fee cost. Gained 2 kilos in 2 days.

After breakfast we had "Experiencing a New Budo" again. This time I did Naginata. I'd been entertaining thought of doing sumo, but the idea of anything that involved crashing into other people just wasn't appealing after 2 late nights of budo discussions. The Naginata was great fun. Just as in Jukendo, we covered the basic attacks, which were a bit more varied than in Jukendo, and practiced these. Since I do Jodo, it was interesting using a weapon with a much longer ma-ai.

After this, we had another 1 hour session of doing your main budo, and I went back to the Judo area. It was the same as the previous day, with some light warm-ups and uchi-komis, and then 5 sessions of tachi-waza randori and 5 sessions of newaza randori. This time I noticed Tadanori Koshino, a lecturer at the International Budo University and one of the team's coachs, doing randori with one of his students, so I got in line to get thrown around by him. All told, I had the incredible pleasure of doing randori with 2 former world-championships, and one Pacific Rim champion (Rika Yazaki. Koshino Sensei sent her over to do newaza with me on Saturday)

After practice a couple of us were talking with Kashiwazaki Sensei again, when someone asked him about yoko-tomoenage, so I got thrown for that a bunch so he could demonstrate it. Then I asked him to show me the choke from the day before, which led into a 45 minute discussion of choking techniques. Great fun. So much fun in fact, that I almost missed lunch for talking with him.

After lunch the lecture was INJURIES TO THE JAW AND FACE WHILE PRACTICING BUDO, AND PROTECTION METHODS by Kotaro Katayama, a dental reconstructive surgeon with the Japan Self-Defense Forces. This was a lot more interesting that I had expected. He went into a great deal of depth about how facial injuries and the position of the jaw can effect ones balance and performance in budo sports. He had a number of examples and points. The big one was that if the jaw is not properly aligned and protected, it significantly alters and upsets one's balance.

After this, there was a 3 hour lecture and demonstration of Daito-Ryu Aikkijujutsu by Katsuyuki Kondo and his students, many of whom were attending the seminar. Unfortunately, I had to leave at this point to return home, so I missed that, and I and open training tonight, and the last lecture tomorrow on SPORTS INJURIES AND IMPEDIMIENTS TO ARMS AND LEGS. It sounds interesting, and I'm looking forward to reading the write up which will be sent out in a few weeks.

The annual International Seminar of Budo Culture (the seminar's proper name) is a fantastic time, and if you get the chance to ever attend I highly recommend it.

Peter Boylan

Shiga-ken, Japan

1999 WESTERN CANADIAN IAIDO EMBU

I would like to thank publicly all those who participated in the recent iaido embu in the Steveston Martial Arts Center here in Vancouver. Twenty-one brave souls got up in front of their peers and about 50 spectators, to show their iaido. They are:

Duane Sammons 1k Shinkendo?

Bill Carter 2k Shinkendo?

Nick Kolby 2k Shinkendo?

Shaun Bryan 2k Shinkendo?

Kimber-Lee Loomis0 MJER (ZNIR)

Matthew Duharte 0 MJER (ZNIR)

Nathan Lingle 0 MJER (ZNIR)

Paul Kahn 1k MJER (ZNIR)

Natan Cheifetz 1d MJER(ZNKR)

Corey Reid 1d Katori Shinto Ryu

Amie Hillaby 1d MJER(ZNKR)

Judith Mack 2d MSR (ZNKR)

Chee Ling 3d MSR (ZNKR)

Hiro Okusa 3d MSR (?)

Greg Williams 3d MJER (ZNIR)

Bruce Campbell 4d MJER(ZNKR)

Catherine Maneker 4d MJER(ZNKR)

Peter Hubert 4d MJER(ZNKR)

Hector Caroso 4d Takeda Ryu?

Scott Irey 5d MJER (ZNIR)

Dick Anderson 5d MSR (ZNKR)

Ken Maneker 5d MJER(ZNKR)

Ted Davis 6d MJER (ZNIR)

Each person did shinsa-ni-rei, torei, 5 kata of their choice, torei and closing shinsa-ni-rei. Without exception the demonstrations where heartful and sincere which made them a delight to watch. Afterwards there was a social gathering with light snacks served. The general consensus seemed to be that this was an excellent experience and that we should make it an annual event. So, here is the first notice.

The Y2K Western Canadian Iaido Embu

Steveston Matrial Arts Center

Steveston, BC, CANADA

10AM, February 9 or 16, 2000

Each person performs 5 kata of their choice. Discussion Circle to follow. Green tea and light snack will be served. If there is sufficient interest there will be an open keiko afterward.

If I can arrange it there will also be a small supplier's expo just to give you all a chance to reduce your bank accounts.

Once again, my sincere thanks for those who attended and made the event a success. More participants next year would be good!!!

Bruce Campbell, Vancouver BC

SUCCESSFUL IAIDO SEMINAR IN SEATTLE

On behalf of my dojo I wish to publicly thank the Pacific Northwest Kendo Federation for a very instructive and useful Seite Iaido Seminar. The seminar

was held on Saturday, Feb 27, and featured teaching from Shozo KATO sensei (New York), and Tatsuhiko Konno (Seattle). The event held in the Burien area of Seattle was attended by about 50 participants. People came from Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and of course Washington.

Highlights included a couple very insightful explanations of how certain motions in iaido and kendo are the same. The interesting part showed how this related to real swordsmanship, and helped give all the students yet another way to visualize "correct technique".

The seminar concluded with a Shinsa for rank with about a dozen people trying to advance in gradings. After the shinsa everyone went to a Bellevue

area School Gym and had a super evening of kendo keiko. The feeling was one of high energy, enthusiasm, and eagerness to improve kendo.

Again a big thank you to Kato sensei, Konno sensei, Dick Anderson sensei, Tom Bolling Sensei, and all of the PNKF membership that worked on making this annual iaido event a sucess.

Robert Stroud

Obukan Kendo Club

Portland, Oregon, USA

New York Iaido Shinsa Report

The various Kendo Federations held a joint iaido shinsa (promotion test) today at Kato Shozo Sensei, nandan, of Shidogakuin dojo on East 43 St. He was assisted by Tom Hooper Sensei, rokudan, of the Kenzen dojo, Dr. Bill Dvorine, godan, from the Washington DC Kendo Club and various other ranking members of the host dojo.

There was a fair turnout for the seminar before the shinsa considering the very cold weather that blew in with a covering of ice and snow overnight. There were 25 people taking tests with maybe another 10 participating in the seminar.

The seminar was run very nicely with groups of five doing 5 kata and then being critiqued by the various sensei and even other testee's. Then the testee's were given the kata they were to do for the shinsa and run through those kata with the new 6 minute time limit. They were then again critiqued on various points.

Then it came time for the real shinsa. The results were such that the majority were happy. 23 out of 25 were promoted. The break down by types is:

Beginners: 4. All 4 promoted to various mid kyu ranks

Ikkyu: 8. One nikyu failed to be promoted, all the rest either reached ikkyu or a higher rank than what they came in with

Shodan: 8. All passed

Nidan: 5. 4 passed

The various people testing all showed hard work, but there were still many points in all ranks that needed improving. It is hoped that they will be inspired by their new ranks to try even harder.

John Prough, JSS New York City

UK Kendo Seminar & grading at Glasgow

This weekend just saw the annual Glasgow seminar & grading; as usual it was an excellent technical seminar - many thanks to the sensei who all taught;

John Howell - nanadan

Jock Hopson - nanandan

Kuose Ari - nanandan

Mike Davies - nanadan

Terry Holt - rokudan

Geoff Humm - rokudan

John Hepburn - rokudan

Geoff Salmon - rokudan

As you can imagine, the quality of instruction was extremely high and the keiko sessions very enjoyable.

The grading took place on Sunday with challengers from Ikkyu to Yondan Ill leave it to the official BKA reporters to make full announcements but local congratulations to

Dave Tinsley - nidan (Dave is the original survivor of Kagami Shins first beginner course in '95)

Mark Needham - sandan (Mark is the sempai at the Manchester Club)

Billy - Liverpool dojo leader - sandan (Sorry Billy cant remember your surname.)

Dave Bell - Yondan (Dave trains at Leciester and Birmingham)

Well done guys !! Also well done everyone else who passed.

Ive posted this because its been a good year for promotions so far in the UK, especially in the

Midlands and North of England where success is sometimes eclipsed by the greater number of dojo

in the south of England (its not deliberate - its just geography).

So congratulations also to some others who gained promotion so far in 1999

Trevor Chapman - Yondan (Trevor is dojo leader at Mansfield / Nottingham)

Gary O'Donnel - Godan (Gary is dojo leader at Halifax)

and further south;

Geoff Salmon - rokudan

Mike Davies - nanandan

Well done everyone. If there are any readers in the UK who fancy trying Kendo, these seminars are excellent places to find out exactly what goes on. The next ones are:

Watchet (South West England) in May

Stoke -on-Trent (Midlands) in July

Phil McLaughlin

Kagami Shin dojo

Stoke-on-Trent

BOOK REVIEWS

SWORD AND SPIRIT: CLASSICAL WARRIOR TRADITIONS OF JAPAN VOL 2.

Ed. Diane Skoss

1999

Koryu Books Berkeley Heights, NJ.

ISBN 1-890536-05-9 6x9 inches ppb, 177pg plus index. Sugg. Retail 19.95

Reviewed by Kim Taylor

This book was released Feb 11, 1999 and I would recommend that anyone interested in the classical weapons arts of Japan order a copy. At the price it's good value for money. Those who bought volume one of this series will be familiar with the format, a set of articles, interviews and short notes. Once again there should be something for everyone here.

The book started a bit slowly for me, with an introduction by the ubiquitous Dave Lowry and a translation of the Kyujukyu Kakun or 99 precepts of the Takeda Clan. This is another in a seemingly endless line of lists of rules from the Japanese warlords in their apparently futile efforts to encourage their underlings to make nice with each other and quit betraying their boss to the enemy every time they went into a battle.

#82: "When issuing orders to retainers during bad weather, be compassionate."

#32: "A retainer should not feel disgruntled about his master's coldness toward him, no matter how unreasonable it may seem."

If the Japanese economy were better you might see this one on the management theory shelves beside the Go Rin no Sho. It certainly has a better claim to the placement.

In the second article Alexander Bennett provides a background and analysis of the Takeda Clan and the Koyo Gunkan, a compilation of lore about the Takeda, from which the 99 precepts is taken. Bennett illustrates the importance of this document in the formation of the early Tokugawa era "Bushido" ideals, and its influence on later works of this genre such as the Budo Shoshinshu, and the Hagakure.

I was pleased to see that Diane and Meik Skoss did what I asked them in my review of the first volume, and added more to their "field guide to the classical Japanese martial arts". This volume they describe Yoshin-ryu, Toda-ha Buko-ryu, Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, Tatsumi-ryu, Takenouchi-ryu, Shojitsu Kenri Kataichi-ryu, Shinto Muso-ryu, Sekiguchi Shinshin-ryu, Negishi- ryu, and, puff puff, Hozoin-ryu Takada-ha. Quite a list.

Meik Skoss follows this with an interview of Saito Satoshi, the headmaster of the Negishi-ryu Shurikenjutsu school. Saito makes comments on modern sport budo, the transition from one headmaster to another, the role of freestyle practice in budo, and several other topics of continuing interest to modern martial art students. He also gives up a juicy big secret teaching of Shurikenjutsu which I am not going to reveal here. Go buy the book. These interviews are of immense value to the budo student in the west for many reasons, not least of which is to reveal what kind of a person is the head of a style. Your local streetcorner grandmaster might do well to read these interviews and learn a bit about real life. And so might some of us "knowledgeable budo writers" too, now that I think about it.

The next three articles, which together constitute about half the book, are all interrelated. Each, by itself, is worth the price of admission. Liam Keeley makes some absolutely vivid points about what a technique ought to be if it is to be effective. K.I.S.S. Keep it Short and Simple (well that's how he puts it.) Keeley uses the relationship of "iaijutsu" and "kenjutsu" practice (solo and partner kata), to illustrate his points. He then uses the iai practice of the Tatsumi-ryu to further refine the argument.

This is the kind of writing that I can hardly resist getting my teeth into and chewing away at. Keeley writes clearly and well, and makes some provocative statements that have my fingers itching to respond but I will refrain here for the sake of space. I'll be reading this one again and perhaps one day I'll get the urge to analyse it. Needless to say I enjoyed it.

The next article was one I enjoyed when it appeared in the Journal of Asian Martial Arts, but it fits damned well right here. Karl Friday seems to expand on Keeley's article with an analysis of kata and pattern practice in the koryu bugei. It's a fine outline of the topic and a careful reading would answer a lot of questions about "how come us sword guys study such as useless thing when we could be learning real self defence down the street". I was pleased to have a chance to re-read it.

Finally, to stretch the analysis yet a step further, Nishioka Tsuneo describes the role of uchidachi and shidachi in partner practice.

Congratulations to Diane for a masterful bit of editing in this latest volume. All us wannabe samurai should read this one carefully at least a couple of times.

IAIDO PRACTICE TOPS

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Yearly subscriptions (12 issues) to the Journal of Japanese Sword Arts are $36 cdn in Canada, $36 US in USA, and $48 overseas. Subscriptions, stories, news, views, and anything else should be sent to Kim Taylor Editor JJSA, 44 Inkerman St. Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 3C5.

519-836-4357

WEB PAGES

Sei Do Kai Iaido homepage:

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~iaido/

Kim Taylor's webpages

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~kataylor/

Canadian Kendo Federatin:

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~kataylor/ckfindex.htm

Ontario Kendo Federation homepage

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~kataylor/okfindex.htm

MOOSEHIDE LEATHER TSUBA

Sei Do Kai can now supply you with moosehide tsuba for your bokuto or shinai. These are three ply, very stiff and strong. $30 for bokuto and shinai tsuba. Custom designs also available. Contact Kim Taylor for more information.SEI DO KAI SUMMER IAIDO SEMINAR 1999

University of Guelph, Ontario Canada, May 22 to 25 1999 with:

Matsuo Haruna Sensei Kyoshi 8 Dan Japan, Masakazu Oshita Sensei Kyoshi 7 Dan Japan, Goyo Ohmi Sensei 6 Dan Canada, and Stephen Cruise Sensei 5 Dan Canada.

As well as special guest Katsuhiko Ide sensei, Hanshi 8 Dan Iaido, Kyoshi 8 Dan Jodo Japan,

This year marks the ninth annual Guelph Summer Iaido Seminar and we'd like to see all our old friends again. This year as always we bring you a truly outstanding group of instructors.

SEMINAR TIMETABLE:

Main Iaido Seminar, May 22-24.

Classes from 9-noon and 1-5:30pm.

ZEN KEN REN IAI

ZEN KEN REN JO

MUSO JIKIDEN EISHIN RYU

MUSO SHINDEN RYU

Tuesday Niten Ichi Ryu or Jodo class: May 25

Kim Taylor: 44 Inkerman St, Guelph, Ontario N1H 3C5 Canada. 519-836-4357, fax 519-836-9873

1999 SPRING SEMINAR REGISTRATION FORM

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PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY

I hereby acknowledge that I am assuming the risk and responsibility for any and all injuries that I may suffer due to injury, suffered by me, or caused by third parties to me arising out of the practice of Iaido or during the use of any of the facilities available. I further acknowledge that I am responsible for providing my own personal health, medical, dental and accident insurance coverage. I hereby release the Sei Do Kai, the University of Guelph, and all of its associated persons from liability for any injury or loss suffered by myself.

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JJSA Journal of Japanese Sword Arts $36 Cdn in Canada,

$36 US in USA, $48 overseas.

JINX-1 IAI JINX WRITING CARDS

SEI DO KAI ORDER FORM

Please send me:

BBI-1. $30 __

BBI-2. $30 __

BBI-3. $30 __

BBI-4. $30 __

BBI-5. $30 __

BBI-SET. $120 __

JINX-1 $7 __

PH-1. $17 __

SD-1. $25 __

SD-2. $25 __

SD-SET. (1&2)$45 __

JJSA $36 __ Can/USA

$48 __ Overseas

VID-1. $25 __

VID-2. $25 __

VID-3. $25 __

VID-4. $25 __

VID-5. $25 __

VID-6. $25 __

VID-7. $25 __

VID-8. $25 __

VID-9. $25 __

VID-10. $25 __

VID-11. $25 __

VID-12. $25 __

VID-13. $25 __

VID-14. $25 __

VID-15. $25 __

VID-16. $25 __

VID-17. $25 __

Any 5 Vid tapes $100 __

VIDBBI-1. $25 __

VIDBBI-2. $25 __

VIDBBI-3. $25 __

VIDBBI-4. $25 __

VIDBBI-5. $25 __

VIDBBI-6. $25 __

VIDBBI-7. $25 __

7 Vidbbi tapes $175 __

TOTAL $_____

Address:

Prices include postage, Send order form to: Kim Taylor 44 Inkerman St. Guelph Ontario N1H 3C5. Payment in Canadian or US funds. Make checks or money orders payable to Kim Taylor or to Sei Do Kai Iaido.

For a catalogue, or price quotes on weapons contact Kim Taylor at the above address,

tel 519-836-4357, or email kataylor@uoguelph.ca