Rick Tew

[aru-ma]

If you were in Japan I'd suggest you try and find a Koryu dojo but since you're in the US, why not do both Aikido and kendo? (providing you have the time).

[Kaoru]

Hi Mrs. Johnson and Andrew,

I just did some research, and then left a post asking for help finding a Japanese Kenjutsu, Iaido or Classical Kendo dojo for you on the Samurai Forum board. When I get a reply, I will post the information for you. I hope to find at least something for you. If not, at least I had the pleasure of trying to help you find something. Oh, where is Toledo located in Ohio? Is it north or south? Which major cities is it near? This information will help. Thanks!

Kaoru

[freqninja]

I admire you guys sticking to tradition and all but if a technique doesn't work why use it? Simple, you won't. Alot of techniqes in most schools don't work. They are for fun or have some other use like teaching the relation to your opponents's movements. This is why some train in traditional styles and some don't. Some do not find it fufilling to train techniques that do not work. Rick Tew'S art is not just to survive a street fight. It is to improve the individual in areas like fitness, flexability, weapons, hand to hand, agility ect. The thing with alot of tradional arts is that they are not compleat. For instance kendo is a mostly sword art. A good one but still a sword art. What modern systems are doing is taking unrealistic styles and adding elements like ground fighting and boxing. Now you guys seem to disagree with his sword techniques. WHO CARES!? I'm not going to be carrying a sword anyway in a fight. Most sword training is for fun. Not only that but kendo guys specialize in swords. I could make fun of karateka for not being Judo experts when it comes to sweeps but what is the point? Kendo i'm sorry is not the best art for street fighting. Kendo is a traditional art. If you were to drop your swords and spar a redbelt in RTMS you would question your own skills unless you have trained in some art based on training like boxing or BJJ or at least have some sparring experiance. Not everone wants to train in a traditional style. You can argue all day about how great traditional arts are but your opponent in the street will not care about your blood line or your certificate. It will come done to how much training you have done. And i am sorry but if you do not spar full contact (like the students in Tew's school) you are not training in a realistic art. It is not always what style you train in it's how much sparring and experiance have you had. Most of the guys in NHB and the UFC are non traditionalists. The early UFCs showed what happens to those traditional styles like Karate, Kung-fu ect (not the the UFC is all there is to martial arts). My question is how can you go wrong if you actually get on the matt and spar all out. When you get in a fight your instructors style will not matter half as much as your attributes. Sparring is a big part of the training the guys use at RTMS because it builds these attributes. The other thing is that you bash the students on the videos who are just students. Most are beginers. Can you guys think back to how you did on your first lesson? You probably sucked. You were off balance. The sword felt awkward. You got beat. A few of you still have these problems. I'm going to bed. Then I'm going wake up and go spar.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Lessee:
First post from someone we've never heard of - check
Bad spelling/grammar - check
Thinly disguised shill from Tew - check
Troll-o-meter rating - 6.5

[Phorest]

freqninja:

Has it ever occured to you that martial arts are about more than simply fighting? Yes, we kendoka realize that the techniques we are learning have no place in a "street fight". And thats just it...martial arts aren't about street fighting. Heck...nowadays "street fighting" simply involves one person with zero training pulling a trigger before the other. So-called "Gun-do". In that facet I'd say most hand to hand arts are pretty damned unrealistic as well. If someone realy wants to beat the crap out of you and is not carrying some kind of weapon...they are going to run full speed at you, tackle you to the ground...and bash your head against the concrete until you pass out from cranial trauma. I'm willing to bet that 99% of the time in a street fight when this occurs you will forget nearly all of your "full contact training" and simply get hurt by someone who is more angry than yourself. So then your argument might be...well we train in hand to hand and ground arts because we enjoy it, it builds stamina, builds character, etc. Guess what? Kendo is the exact same thing. We realize we won't put our skills to use on the "street"...we simply do it for the joy and tradition of it.

I could make fun of karateka for not being Judo experts when it comes to sweeps but what is the point?

.......

If you were to drop your swords and spar a redbelt in RTMS you would question your own skills unless you have trained in some art based on training like boxing or BJJ or at least have some sparring experiance.

So you're going to make fun of Kendoka for not being hand to hand/ground fighters? I don't get it. You're contradicting yourself there. *dingdong* faulty logic alert!

I'm not gonna continue...this is pointless and rather tiresome.

[xvikingx]

Street fighting?!... whos talking about street fighting? In the real world your martial arts fantasy camp training is not going to save you.
"If you were to drop your swords and spar a redbelt in RTMS you would question your own skills unless you have trained in some art based on training like boxing or BJJ or ..." 1st: You must mean shinai. We dont play with swords.
2: Why would we want to fight someone? There is no logic behind your argument
3rd: If really did have to go toe to toe with someone, I wouldnt use a sword,bokken, or shinai. Assult with a deadly weapon is not something I want on my record.

My advice to you Fagninja, is to cut back on the Van Dame movies and rethink your reasons for "training".

[xvikingx]

What Ninjutsu wants to be - the Martial Science is your solution for becoming a ninja based on reality or what we call a "Total Warrior" Tired of ninjutsu traditionalists that hide behind scrolls and names? Welcome to the arena where you are the leader and the student is once again the most important aspect of the Martial Arts.

hah ha ha ha ha... Wow! Real Tew-ryu wisdom! Man this guy is a relic of the 1980's ninja craze. I wish these people could come to shiga-ken and see the real historical ninja places. Even those places are little out there but this is stupid. Reality has truely escaped Rick Tew and his fallowing. Fagninja I pitty you.

[Yowai]

http://www.ninjitsu.com/Video_Galler...1/s___p_1.html

http://www.ninjitsu.com/Video_Galler...2/s___p_2.html

http://www.ninjitsu.com/Video_Galler...2/s___p_3.html

http://www.ninjitsu.com/Video_Galler...2/s___p_4.html

http://www.ninjitsu.com/Video_Galler...6/s___p_6.html

These kids show absolutely no technique. The students have showed their backs to their opponents in many instances, and in some instances, one student would be running away back turned from the opponent to get away from trouble. The "coach" is giving useless advice, (stay away from walls? Why bother when both students show no footwork control whatsoever) and makes the students do pushups in the middle of a sparring match as a penalty. (???) "Strategy, strategy," he says, when both students aren't even throwing punches properly. What are the little twirls that the students perform? One student was not wearing head protection. A misplaced elbow can be fatal when these students are twirling randomly. One kicking technique seems to involve hopping on one leg, flailing the other, and advancing towards your opponent.

These sparring videos are very worrying. Anassociation that videotapes and posts videos showing complete negligence will be avoided by any sane person with even a trickle of intelligence.

[aru-ma]

Hey! didn't anyone read the notice? it says "please do not feed the trolls, they might come back"

We're just promoting legitimate budo while making sure potential martial artists don't fall to the dark side as so many others have

My view is why bother studying martial art if your purpose is for street fighting? Besides If I want to go for a street fight I'll go with "crowbar-do" or just copy my technique "haya-ashi-jutsu" in other words run

[LNGUYEN]

Fagninja, how long have you been with martial art world? have you been involved in any street fights? I just question about you analysis about useless technique in the street fights. Martial art have been developed and polish for thousand years to be deadly effective and you said they are useless for you and only Rich's technique work. I was involved in some street fights before when I was young and I told you my Judo and some TKD help alot. they help me to have better reflects, better judgment, and better self control. I am not going out there to find trouble, only when it is neccessary to defend myself and my family.

[AlexM]

This is funny.

Go to www.e-budo.com : Their idea of good budo is usefulness in a street fight. Don't touch kendo. You'll hate it. It's totally useless except for personal development and a little mild conditionning.

Even at e-budo you'll find many members that will tell you that there is much randomness to a street fight and no amount of training will help you if the opponent is:

a) 100 pounds heavier than you
b) helped out by some of his buddies
c) armed with a 3 inch blade or more

What a fun little troll you're going to be! Now go play with the other ninja and leave the adults alone.. ok?

[Ben F.]

Hi guys, my name is Andrew. My mom has been posting on this website trying to help me out with some stuff.
I just want to say I appreciate your input and value it. I respect what you have to say.
I am currently now a warrior without a path and if you can help me with what I'm looking for I would appreciate it.
I am looking for a serious art with a serious intructor, a lot of hand to hand combat. I also need an art that deal with intense sword technique. I am also interested in tricking if you know what that is but it can come later. I'm not looking for anything fancy, just practical and serious sword technique.
reply to my mom for now. I will become a registered user myself in a day or two (computer at shop, using mom's office for now).
I'm in the Toledo, Ohio area. Do you know of anyone around here (south of Detroit, east of Cleveland) that I can contact?
Have background in karate and have studied three different types of kung fu on my own. IMO I feel like I have learned quite a bit even w/o a teacher, but don't hold me to that. I am looking for guidance.
Thanks for the help.
AJ

Andrew:

I agree with the rest of the KWF forum in that aikido might be an appropriate course of study for you. I belong to a group called AYANA (Aikido Yoshokai Assoc. of North America). Our head instructor is Takashi Kushida Sensei, an eighth degree black belt, who trained directly under Gozo Shioda Sensei, the founder of the Yoshinkan style. The training is very traditional and very intense. You will get plenty of weapons work (bokken, jo, and tanto) along with good hand technique. In addition to the physical training, we also focus on the budo philosophy. I have been studying for 8 years now and have loved every minute. We do have a branch dojo in the Toledo area and one at Ohio State. Here is their information:

Columbus
Aikido Yoshokai at Ohio State
Larkins Hall
337 W. 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210

Toledo
Shoshinkan
St. James Wellness Center
7332 W. Bancroft St.
Toledo, OH 43615
(419) 841-5597

Here is a link to our headquarters dojo in Ann Arbor, MI: http://www.aikidoyoshokai.org/

I strongly urge you to check it out. The people of AYANA are all very nice and will be glad to have you watch a class and answer any and all questions you might have. Good luck and feel free to private message me if you need further information on our style of aikido.

[L. johnson]

hey its andrew. freqninja is a frend of mine and he is entitled to his opinion. He is the one I was planning on going to CMS with. I told him about this site hoping you guys could have a serious discussion. You guys showed me a lot of respect and helped me out. I hope you will rephrase some of the stuff you were saying and have a serious discussion w/o just flaming him.
As MA's some of the stuff said I think was a little inappropriate. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't dissing you guys, I mean these comments with the utmost of respect.

Please try to have serious discussion with him w/o getting too harsh or critical or judging him. He does study MA's other than CMS, so he is not just a shill or a troll.

[Charlie]

Ben F. has caught the correct.

[LNGUYEN]

Hi Andrews and Fagninja
Please first you said your guys have experience in martial arts, why don't you tell us what type of experience, how many years have you trained to see are you qualify for an open discussion. Because right now, if you believe that attending Ric Tew school for few months and you can become master, then nobody want to discuss any thing with you. Just like children they believe in turtle ninjas, I didn't tell my children they are not real because they are too young to know that. When I watch kungfu movies, I can move just like them. However, the moves are not everything. Martial artist are trained in spirit, movement, endurance, self control, reflection, and techniques. However, they are realistic, not ninja bs Hollywood types. Some times you can see some thing look the same, move the same, quack the same, but they are not the same.