TRUE.Originally posted by Charles Mahan
What you saw on a video is hardly conclusive of what the regular training curriculum of Hayashizaki ryu is like.
Have you seen a nihon kobudo series video?Originally posted by Charles Mahan
Are you asserting that most of their training looks like this?
Standard format.
Few minute blurp on location and history.
View of mokuroku with the kata names.
Perform kata.
REGARDLESS of the training structure in the class, THOSE ARE THE KATAS OF THE RYU.
I practice Muso Shinden Ryu at several places. None of these places train the same way. That doesn't mean the Muso Shinden Ryu katas aren't the same.
Yeah yeah...tachi uchi no gurai...yes...yes...bunkai...yeah yeah....Originally posted by Charles Mahan
I have seen a video of MJER two man forms being performed with iaito. Can I then draw the conclusion that MJER is predominantly 2 man waza with iaito?
Nihon Kobudo video series have a standard structure. If they performed it that way, I would naturally believe that is the structure of their "formal" curriculum. How they run class to achieve that knowledge is ANOTHER matter entirely.
For any more information, I can't tell you because I didn't sign a keppan with them. And if I did, I still couldn't tell you!
Like I said...do you know the standard format of the nihon kobudo video series?Originally posted by Charles Mahan
Could have been a small set of waza in the whole system and one which they only trot out for special events for all I know.