Thread: Why no tsuba?
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Old 02-23-2012, 04:40 PM   #198
graham christian
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Re: Why no tsuba?

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Gary Welborn wrote: View Post
Graham
Steven Seagal came out of the dojo I trained in, took his shodan in 1974 in Los Angeles and completed the Rondori part at Cal State Fullerton during a Tohei Sensei week end seminar. To my knowledge Steven's weapons work at that time and to the level it was then was a result of Ishisaka Sensei's training in the dojo. I don't recall that Steven Seagal spent more that a year or so with Tohei Sensei in Japan before he was off to the dojo in Osaka. Not much time spent in direct contact.

Gary
Gary. What's with the Tohei connection? You lost me.

G.