Sunday, 4 October 2015

General points - kata look a bit wild. More finesse. Head always turns first to look, keep sword guarding, left hand only comes at end to make strike - eg in Morote Tsuki, Ganmen Ate.

Ganmen Ate -
1) Aim for between nose and mouth. Not a big deep step. Bring up back foot, not off the ground so much - get a coin under it, only.
2) Full unsheath sword with left hand before Tsuki.
3) Don't make a rapier type lunge with tsuki, economical movement.
4) Keep tip of sword pointing then turn head and pivot. Dont do extra shuffle movement.

Mae
1) Blade must be out of saya, by koiguchi, before you try first strike - otherwise, scrapes. Don't rush it. Don't let sword cross centre as you come in for kirioroshi. Tip to left ear (check this).
2) Iai goshi  - straighten up heel.

Sanpo Giri
1) Five steps, final steps hips pointing at angle - otherwise hard to turn to rear.
Always JODAN KAMAE as you can see what is happening.

Morote Tsuki
1) Not big lunge tsuki with arms, whole body movement from hips.

Noto
1) Dont try to hold/grap handle - just a few fingers, lightly. If you try to grip, you are overextended

2) Push saya into blade - sheath the sword dont sword the sheath

SAYABIKI is mirror image of strike in MAE and MOROTE TSUKI. Like Yin and Yang. Morote tsuki, downwards sayabiki. Mae, horizontal sayabiki as  you can see from this picture.


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