by rmgadmin | Dec 11, 2022 | blog
If you’ve watched the Seiuchin Kata Bunkai video, you’ve gotten the technical skinny for applying a double joint lock against several straightforward attacks. However, in the video, I only presented the form’s overt technicalities, not the covert ones. The...
by rmgadmin | Dec 11, 2022 | writings
By Shifu Hayashi Tomio This story recounts a series of events that took place over a ten-year span from early 1970 to early 1980. It is not my intent to disparage anyone in this tale but rather to candidly portray the interplay of light and shadow in the soul. The...
by rmgadmin | Jan 21, 2022 | writings
by Hayashi Tomio The world does not require us to function optimally to get by, or to survive. Mediocrity is, and has been for some time, the general rule of life. We see this everywhere with our growing chronic, social agitations and pathologies; Hyper-activity,...
by rmgadmin | Jan 21, 2022 | blog
What a mental roller coaster this last year and a half has been with Covid challenging our personal, social and economic terrain. I hope you are all doing well under these circumstances. I know some of you have not been able to train with me for a variety of reasons....
by rmgadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | blog
The Bank Street School, where I received my early training, was one of New Jersey’s pioneering dojos. Out of this school emerged William Scott Russell and the birth of his system, Isshin Kempo. Most people are not aware of how Russell came about his sokeship of Isshin...
