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Category: iaido

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Combined motivations in kendo and iaido

By Martine Mussies | December 22, 2020December 26, 2020 by Martine Mussies

In the last issue of Zanshin (2020-2), I wrote about the challenges of continuing your dō in these times of Corona. After its publication, many people reached out to me, mostly with questions on how…

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The dō less travelled by

By Martine Mussies | March 11, 2020March 13, 2021 by Martine Mussies

A ‘90’s schoolyard, somewhere in Suburbia. The children are happily playing soccer, with their teachers as referees. But one chubby girl sits aside. She is not joining at all, not even looking. She is playing…

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