xgenehawk

that style doesn't have beginners classes exactly. it's all taught together. you just get more and more of the nuances as you go.

It shows you how to move your body as a whole for fighting, if all you learn is how to swing a sword without accompanying footwork and avoidance skills, you'll just end up with a mutual slaying(ai-uchi). Probably not the goal you are going for.

starting with Bujinkan taijutsu and then expanding extras on to it with specific styles of swordwork will give you crazy sword skills if you put the work in. Not having a good base to start though will hinder you greatly.

this dojo might be closer and is of similar if not better quality.

www.muzosa.com

good luck whatever you go with.

If you don't like whats up there and don't mind a trip to philly, i'll be doing a sword fighting seminar again in September, or, if you get a half dozen or more people together, I'll do one up there sooner.

what part of the sprawling metropolis are you in?

http://www.bujinkannyc.org is in brooklyn, and while they aren't sword specific, they cover sword and will give you a solid base to learn many other sword styles from. ignore the silly name.

if it's not close, let me know, I'll see if i can find something closer, I don't know a lot of them though, i tend to only go up there to teach.

The destruction of Genosha happened in this book.

sounds like a sweet trip!!

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"tree canopying" fucking rocks!!! you should look for a ropes course whereever you live if you haven't done one yet. climbing huge trees, belaying between, tight rope walks, and a rip cord back down...

you can still work legs!!!

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Thanks for the kind words. I've never been very persuaded by the "there are so many carcinogens we're exposed to on a daily basis that to get your knickers in a bunch over cell-phones is silly" argument. But I guess I have to admit that, despite being rather ignorant on the matter and if only because you-know-who's comment's warranted it, I felt obligated to play the devil's advocate in that thread. I also like how cancer researchers aren't credible because their livelihood is invested in the research, as though they'd be left vocationless were they to prove there no causation.

long haired hippie!!