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A question for experienced Kenjutsu and Iaijutsu practitioners?
Just been watching this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKheUnJiilg
And I was wondering about one thing that's been bugging me as I watched it. If you notice through out the match, the swordsman on the right keeps letting go of the bokken by flicking his right hand in the air at some point in their exchanges. My question is:
Is that hand movement part of the technique or is he doing it because the other swordsman is forcing him to do it by targeting his swordhand? Because if he's being forced to do it, then it says alot about his reflexes as well as the skill of his opponent who obviously is the Senior.
By the way, on a side note, This is also the first time I've actually seen a demo on fighting with a wakizashi as shown near the end of the video. Now if I can only find a school that actually teaches it near where I live, I'd die a happy man. Pretty shallow huh? : P
I appreciate the answers, but I 'd really like to clarify something specifically. Although I am familiar with the wrist cutting strikes, since we've covered that during our supplementary sword training in Aikido and is also part of the basic defensive/offensive technique of the system of Kali I trained in, I am however not that familiar with Kenjutsu forms. So I wanted to know if the right hand gestures that the "Uke"(for lack of a better word, since I'm not familiar with Kenjutsu terminologies) is making are specifically part of the ken matching forms or is it involuntary reflex on his part? Once again, thanks, for taking the time to answer : )
Well, time's almost up before the question expires and I didn't want it to expire without saying thanks to both of you for your answers. Although I would've liked to know whether the gestures really were a part of the forms or not, I guess I'd have to choose cookiesrme's answer as best, because of the background info about the modified cutting movements, I didn't know that, but I was wondering about it while watching the video and thought maybe it was just their ryu's unique way of swinging a sword, kinda like a signature move. Guess I still have a lot to learn.
3 Answers
- cookiesrmeLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
As the first poster said, that particular cut (we call them chop cuts, for reference- although it's more of a half-cut than anything) is very Katori Shinto Ryu. These katas are super complex and take many years of study to get all the little nuances hidden in them.
Sometimes in battle it would have taken too long to bring the sword over one's head (jodan no kamae) for a cut, so this method of cutting instead loads the sword by the side of the arm and cuts for the opponent's wrist. No wrist equals no way to hold a sword, and the fight is over.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
Basically, Kenjutsu is the normal time period for Japanese sword combating train with an exact sword throughout the samurai interval, beneath this, there are a couple of/many distinctive forms or kenjutsu tuition methods (Ryu) ex; Shinkage ryu, Tenenrishen ryu and so forth. and those sword combating methods are commonly for battle and it makes a speciality of protecting/counter assault instead than offense (however are nonetheless equipped of offense). While, Iaijutsu alternatively is practiced through assassins. Where their sufferers aren't absolutely mindful in their intentions and can do a shock assault from pulling and sheathing the sword in a lights rapid movement with lethal accuracy then simply stroll clear of the scene as though not anything occurred. And while persons begin to discover any person down at the floor bleeding to dying, they have got already left the crime scene. Thus, Kenjustsu is a entire sword combating method from protecting, counter assault, and starting up assaults. And Iaijutsu/batto-juttsu is just for fast assaults having the whole purpose of decapitating or killing the area with out being spotted.
- KokoroLv 71 decade ago
the hand is one of the targets in kenjutsu/iaijutsu, so yes the person on the left is targeting the others hand
the wakizashi is used the same as the katana, except of course with one hand but the movements are all the same as well as the principals.
unfortunate if you dont live in a major area iaido is harder to find
Source(s): 30+yrs ma shotokan and shito ryu kobudo, kenjustu, iaido, jojutsu
