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"mu" cup of tea being a zen saying for?

Over the last few years there's been an Australian (relatively cheap) wine making inroads in the States, with a kangaroo on it (of course!)..? Ah yes, Yellowtail. But I don't think it was mu cup of tea.

Corrected that spelling, too.

I suppose a "lift" could also work in context. The last time I asked for a lift to school we got in a car accident...

Ah! A day off... ...so here's another from Wadoworld: "Torimi & Ukemi In wado practice of Kihon Kumite the essence of the practice is in the concept of KO BO ITTAI. Attack and defence are the same thing. Therefore the terms attacker and defender are incorrect and may mislead the practitione...

Didn't correct my OWN spelling...

Recently I was trying to discuss Sensei Ohtsuka's meditation technique with my wife, and I couldn't remember everything he had said. And with Wadoworld sorta defunct, I realized what a loss. Some damn fine articles. So I've decided to periodically copy the articles and post them here. Strangely enou...

Looks like the webpage is gone, but through the miracle of "Waybackmachine": https://web.archive.org/web/20051224194 ... index.html

This is also an article that does an excellent job explaining jujutsu. Very concise. Some overlap with Kano's, but also good explanation of the use of jujutsu: http://www.koryu.com/library/mskoss8.html

Ha! The best part: "The originators of new schools seem often times to have made history to suit their own purposes...." Still relevant today.

Yeah, that's just an aiki trick, not waza within aikijujutsu. I swear if anyone makes fun of the brown belt in this video (it's his shodan test), I'm gonna get mad. His attacks were a little off at times. You can say whatever you want about the black belt...that's me. Sakura Sensei changed ipponme t...