I recently repaired my old article about how to defend against a knife attack and showed in a new article how an undead could deploy knives. Because these articles only show freeze frames from anime series, so you could wonder where to find something more realistic. If you use a search engine, then you’d find […]

The following are freeze frames from the anime series Tokyo Ghoul. Somebody (I can’t recall the names and probably did never learn them) asks for instructions in fighting with knives. After demonstrating the techniques, which included juggling with several knives, was put clear that these techniques should only be performed by undead people. These techniques […]

As I already reported, I mistakenly deleted many of the pictures of my old articles. I now repaired my old article on how to defend versus a knife attack. I think this is one of my best and also one of my most important articles. Although I seemingly am the only one, who thinks so. […]

I wanted to finish this article series with its 78th part, but I recently stumbled upon a too funny Japanese name. This name is Yua Serufu (結(ゆ)愛(あ) せるふ). It’s the name of the protagonist of the anime series Do It Yourself!. Yua (結(ゆ)愛(あ)) is used as a family-name here, while in reality it is a […]

Programming languages can be quite special, in most cases this is because of a certain area of using them. The programming language C and its offspring, too, belong to these. C is a vintage programming language, which was followed by C++ (spoken as “see increment” [edit Nov, 5th: sorry, not increase, but increment because computer […]

Some programming languages are quite special. APL is another special programming language based on an ideology. APL is short for A Programming Language and is the name of a programming language, which doesn’t exist in real, but is only a theoretical concept. Its special feature is to have additional operators. Many more of them than […]

In another article about daitō-ryū-aiki-jū-jutsu (大東流合気柔術), I found a technique depicted, which is called shumoku (撞木) or katsugi-waza. It resembles the shumokuzori (撞木反り) in sumō (相撲) and could have got its name from there, though the shumokuzori (撞木反り) previous to the 21st century hadn’t been an own kimarite. The shumoku (撞木) or katsugi-waza also and […]

the sixteenth or first precept of the Shōtō nijū-kun (松濤二十訓) is hitotsu, danshi mon o izureba hyakuman no teki ari (一、男子門を出づれば百万の敵あり) and quite difficult to understand for non-Japanese because reliable translations for the Shōtō nijū-kun (松濤二十訓) still don’t exist! I hence trust in my own translations, but I also had difficulties with translating this precept. […]

A stupid remark from a shihan (師範) of the Japan Aikido Association provoked this article series. A shihan (師範) in aikidō (合気道) should know it better. Yet I meanwhile did read an interview, which taught me how the shihan (師範) could have come to such an idea. The interview was with Shioda Gōzō (塩田 剛三), […]

It’s the 22nd of March again, so it’s World Water Day again. The opportunity to show a somehow water-related picture. Because I almost ran out of storage space, only one freeze frame. All pokémon and characters from the anime series Pokémon have different names in different languages. This complicates writing about these characters and their […]