After learning shugendō ( mountaineering asceticism ) from his father Dōyu, Ryushin then went to Kyoto where he learned esoteric Buddhism from the Buddhist monk Jōkai at Sanmaku-in temple.

So Ryushin used the remains of his naginata to knock down enemies near him and put enemies at bay by swinging the staff in the air, drawing out the kuji-kiri as he did.

Ryushin answered, " It is a secret technique passed on in my family.

After the war Ryushin's mother Chigusa Hino, whose family belonged to the Southern Court, lamented over the fact that Ryushin took the side of the Northern Court.

Takauji's treatment of the prisoners was so abhorrent that Ryushin was quoted as saying " It is possible to loose the emperor from the harsh treatment he receives.

Ryushin Yakushimaru, the founder of Kukishin-ryū, was born to Dōyu Shirōhōgan at Kumano-Hongu in Wakayama prefecture on January 1, 1318.

In 1335, when Ryushin celebrated his coming of age, he joined the Northern Court under Takauji Ashikaga in a war against the Southern Court.

In June, 1336 Ryushin and his vanguard led an attack on the Southern Court's fort on Mt.

" With other conspirators Ooe Gyōbu Daiyu Kageshige, Bessho Saburō Takanori ( Kojima Takanori ), Hiyoshi Iga Nyudō and Kisshuin Sōshin Hōgen, Ryushin broke into the palace of Kazanin and escaped to Yoshino with Emperor Go-daigo.

The army caught up with Ryushin and the conspirators at Kuragari-Tōge, a mountain pass situated on the borders of Osaka and Nara prefectures.

It is said that the Bojutsu in Kukishin Ryū was later devised on the techniques Ryushin used on this occasion.

Ryushin also succeeded in re-capturing the “ Three Treasures of the Imperial House ” which he had concealed in a scripture-warehouse at Yokawa in Mt.

In 1996 he gave dharma transmission to his student Bonnie Myotai Treace, in 1997 to Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, and in 2009 to Konrad Ryushin Marchaj.

During his travels in Asia, Xavier learned martial arts, acquiring " refined combat skills " according to Magneto.

" Around 2am as I was performing misogi, I suddenly forgot all the martial techniques I had ever learned.

In 1676 Huang Zongxi's son, Huang Baijia, who learned martial arts from Wang Zhengnan, compiled the earliest extant manual of internal martial arts, the Nèijiā quánfǎ.

Training is split into various forms, many of which are only learned when a martial artist has passed the student levels of Wing Tsun.

According to the tradition of Quraish, while still in his teenage years, Umar learned martial arts, horse riding and wrestling.

* In the Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game, kiho are complex martial arts techniques learned by monks and sometimes shugenja that have some extraordinary or supernatural effect.

Torinawa-techniques are taught as part of the curriculum learned by modern Japanese police officers and it remains an advanced topic within schools of jujutsu, following it and other Japanese traditional martial arts as they make their way around the world from Brazil to Eastern Europe.

McQueen also learned the martial art Tang Soo Do from ninth degree black belt Pat E. Johnson.

He learned martial arts together with his four compatriates-Hang Jebat, Hang Lekir, Hang Kasturi and Hang Lekiu-from two of the most renowned silat guru of the era.

The creation of Baguazhang, as a formalised martial art, is attributed to Dong Haichuan ( 董海川 ), who is said to have learned from Taoist ( and possibly Buddhist ) masters in the mountains of rural China during the early 19th century.

Maître Rohdes was one of the last fencing masters to teach fencing as a martial art, himself having learned a variety of historical fencing systems from his own master, Maître d ' Armes Marcel Cabijos.

Has got into shape and learned martial arts in anticipation and fear of an eventual meeting with Begbie.

Learning his techniques, Dōshin Sō traveled Manchuria on his mission and duty and learned more about existing Chinese martial arts.

Popular legends states that he learned martial arts from a Shaolin Monk named Zhou Tong and later created Eagle Claw to help his armies combat the invading armies of the Jin Dynasty.

Liu Cheng You ( 劉成有 ) first learned martial arts from his uncle Liu Dekuan ( 劉德寬 ), who had been a student of Liu Shi Jun when stationed in Beijing.

Elektra learned ancient martial arts of China, Siam, and Japan.

Some students preferred older material to newer material, wanted to maintain older material that Parker intended to replace, or wanted to supplement the kenpo they learned from a particular period with other martial arts training.

He synthesized his knowledge of Okinawan arts with Chinese martial arts that he learned on his travels and taught it as a coherent system to some eager students, who subsequently refined it, and passed it on.

After the reform movement of the Prussian Army following a series of disastrous defeats at the hands of her enemies in the 18th century, internal analysis of the lessons learned had informed Prussian civilian and military leadership that, while individual soldiers were first rate, command structures, staff organisation and generalship was a hit-and-miss affair, more dependent on the martial skills of the King and the individual members of the German nobility who dominated the military profession.

The combination of martial talent and formal education enabled Kano to take the koryū martial arts he learned ( specifically Kitō-ryū and Tenjin Shin ' yo-ryū jujutsu ), and systematically reinvent them into a martial art with an emphasis on freestyle practice and competition.

These principles are typically learned by martial artists through multiple repetitions under the supervision of a qualified instructor.

Together they learned to act in local theater productions and circus arts at Union Settlement, one of the city's oldest settlement houses.

Den and the original members of Ondekoza grew much of their own food, learned carpentry, studied Japanese classical and folk arts, and began a training regimen similar to professional athletes.

In this institution, the first of its kind in Iberia, a body of learned men including Archbishop Saint Leander of Seville taught the trivium and quadrivium, the classic liberal arts.

* Royal Manchester Institution ( 1823-1882 ), a learned society promoting the arts in Manchester, England

Richelieu was also famous for his patronage of the arts ; most notably, he founded the Académie Française, the learned society responsible for matters pertaining to the French language.

She was a magician who had three arts she learned: enchantment, magic, and divination.

The first three drops of liquid from this cauldron would give would be, " extraordinarily learned in various arts and full of spirit of prophecy " ( The Tale of Gwion Bach ), and the rest was a fatal poison.

He learned all the arts of war from Scáthach, and while he was there slept with her rival Aoife, or Aífe, leaving her pregnant.

Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from François Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable ingredient in the plastic arts In 1809 he went to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and became a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, obtaining the Grand Prix de Rome in 1812.

Sir Henry Sidney became Gilbert's mentor, and he was educated at Eton and the University of Oxford, where he learned to speak French and Spanish and studied the arts of war and navigation.

He is described by the Four Masters as " a learned man, skilled in many arts, gifted with a profound intellect, and the knowledge of every science.

Using the training and strategies and the lessons learned during World War II, Bank created an elite unit of men skilled in foreign languages ( to interface with foreign insurgents ), the arts of sabotage and stealth tactics, the use of explosives for demolition, amphibious warfare, rock climbing, jungle warfare, mountain fighting and as ski troops.

During those years, he learned much from observing a mastery of military arts, hetman Koniecpolski, who often commanded the Polish army in which he served, but also from the Swedish opponents, and earlier from the Cossacks and Tatars they fought.