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Well , after the good move a few months back, of me and one of the guys ( who trains with me away from instructor ) just dropping what we have been doing into the middle of the class and in front of instructor .... and him going " Where have you been training ? .... Where did you learn that ? ? ? " ( aside from the fact we have been doing bits of that for a while now and he happens to miss it, look away, or 'correct us ' - sometimes into a crazy dangerous move ! or waved a dismissive hand ) he finally actually watched and took it in ... all good. and said "We will use these moves in what we teach now . But where did they come from . " ( , they are mostly extensions and combinations of what he teaches anyway ... with an addition of 'nous' ) NOW he comes up with " Let's make a curriculum , a book, and standardise everything , starting with the basic ones I taught you and working the way up to more complex and number each one and you (me - Nungali ) write it all down, describe it and number it . " Great ... what me ! ? Now there is a challenge, how the hell do I do that. ??? Especially when in training he goes, "Attack me " and I say how or anything ? Head ! What ... kiratsuki ... diajodan ... ? I dont know what those mean, just attack my head . I do .. with Kiratsuki , deflect his thrust and slide my blade (wooden) up his face . Him ... no , do it this way ( ie. the way he can easily counter and kill me ! ) Instructors ! I mean, he is great at what he does , empty hand , but does not a great teacher make. So how do I even write number 1 (attack daijordan) and the counter .... " No. 2 - do a ' shuffle to offside while raising the sword handle first and make the blade extend out to an angle of .... " I even said ; Well ...... you give it a name then . he said .... "that thing that we do that we are going to call No 2. Okay, I will say, do a number 2 Him: "But they won't know what it is ...." Aye i aye i yii ! I have to work on it later today . I gave up the idea of using 'correct japanese terms' as even then different people have different interpretations of what that means , and it varies over different sword schools. My logic is, if we are going to make an adaption of a term .... number 1 ... seems to make sense . They use a similar system in Filipino Arnis , body targets are numbered, techniques are numbered, defenses and positions moved to are numbered (on the floor around you ) .... so instructor can say; " You attack with a 2 ... and you move to position 5 and counter with a 7. " Once the basics are learned its soooo much easier than a string of Japanese ( often to be followed by an English correction of , " No but on this side with an upward motion and .... " ) All I can come up with is something like ; 1. Attack with DaiJodan * (and for the more complex ones, add a line of description ) 15. Kiratsuki + ( surge forward with sword in on-guard position to cut the face ) then at the bottom of the first 10 add the notes * stepping forward cut down and into the top of the head as showed how by the instructor . + 'send' the sword first, follow it, deflect any thrusts while entering, strike and slice up the face to the forehead ... as showed how by the instructor . (that is just use the description as a memory trigger .... and put the rest back on him ) ... oh yeah, he wanted to make one of them, this silly one we dont like, ( but he gets away with doing it due to 'instructor syndrome' ) I had enough of that, so when he demonstrated it for one move for me to add today , we did it 5 times .... and I cut him across the belly 5 times (harder each time ) ... and he said "I think we will drop that one " yes ! I saw these little illustrations Bruce Lee used to add to his written descriptions, he was great at them ... just a few quick lines to make up the figures but expressive able to be understood and simple - pretty good at it he was. stuff like this : but I cant draw. I considered little pics, but I dont have the technology ( bad phone and laptop full o bugs ) I guess I need 2 others, a demonstrator and a photographer, who can stick them in a form I can use, and then word process it. cant think of any other solutions