1) Mae: you are unsheathing the sword way to soon, rushing it and getting the scrape. Unsheath the sword as you move forward in a controlled way, with lots of saya biki, then cut, but not too high. Pivot from wrist to bring sword back behind head, without allowing tsuba to cross your centre.

2) Kesa giri. Raise sword a bit to keep on SEME pressure with koshira. Only 50% withdrawl before turn and make upward cut count, then STEP IN - i had forgotten that.

3) Sanpo is THREE opponents, Shiho is FOUR - you are getting confused

4) Shiho - you need to smash down with your hand OVER the handle or it gets tangled, and keep HIPS square. Then have feet pointing same direction as you tsuki, your feet were SPLAYED

DONT TENSE UP HANDS when you try to keep them in

5) chiburi. Practice on ground, horizontal, pointing towards opponent WHO IS ON THE FLOOR so keep tip POINTING TOWARDS them and keep the whole thing DOWN