Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul.-Aug. 2014 | Page 144

Eight years have elapsed since I first met Shidoshi Jordan and Shidoshi
Juliana. In this time, both of them have written much in our magazine and
taught in depth the Martial Arts of the Shizen people; but since then, many
friends have also come to our magazine for the first time, and we thought
that this month it would be simply great for our new readers that they
could have a general approach to this school and its lineage. Therefore we
decided to reproduce the first article published in 2006 in which we
introduced Shidoshi Jordan and Shidoshi Juliana, presenting at the same
time the first of many videos and books on their work.
Rereading the introduction I made for them at the time, now I find in it,
intuitively molded, the germ of a work that was to be prolonged throughout
time, and that would intensify and mature wrapped in friendship and
commitment. I was not wrong when I then judged those aspects, but I could
never imagine, nor did they, how much we were going to do together for the
dissemination and maintenance of the Shizen culture, in my case linked to
the spiritual tradition of this people, known as E-bunto, of which I have
written 3 books.
Alfredo Tucci

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ew times have I had the opportunity to
cross paths with a master so well
versed in his Art and in the culture that
surrounds it as the one who today
concerns us. Shidoshi Jordan, recently
arrived in Europe after years of
working in his nativ H