Style
These are my personal opinions, and not those of Stil-Budo in
general.
The style we train has its roots in ZNKR Jodo, but should not be
identified as such for several reasons. The first and most imporatant
beeing that we are not affiliated with the ZNKR in any way. The second
reason is that our instructor is not qualified and has no teaching
license.
These things do not nessesarily make our style "bad" though, since we
have no contact with the ZNKR our style is not subject to constant change
and modification from senior ZNKR officials, once something is learnt it
can be depended upon to stay that way. However the lack of outside
contact also makes our style drift from the original one, even if the
style had remained static. In an attempt to slow down this drift we try
to study books, however these books are often several years old, and
sometimes the authors don't have in deapth knowledge on the
topic.
But, correct style or not, Jodo (and Iaido) is a great way to
relax and for a few hours a week get away from the stress and work with
university studies. Once training has started I don't give the outside
world a thought until I leave again.
Back to Jodo.