At a weekend seminar I attended last summer, we did half an hour of mokuso (in seiza) each morning at 6 AM. Followed by a (voluntary) session of running hill intervals!
... and after that, the...
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At a weekend seminar I attended last summer, we did half an hour of mokuso (in seiza) each morning at 6 AM. Followed by a (voluntary) session of running hill intervals!
... and after that, the...
Do you mean okuden noto?
A zinc-aluminium iaito won't rust, so the main function of oiling is to have less friction between the mune and the skin between the thumb and index finger during noto. Choji oil works better for...
August 6-11
(Choose "Agenda" from the Dutch Kendo Federation's website - www.nkr.nl )
Good old calisthenics - push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, crunches etc. make excellent general strength training. I also do some static exercises such as this "core and stability test":...
Tsk, there's no need for madness unless we're in the five-figure range. Plain stubborness will get you a long way! :D
Happy New Year to you as well, Andy! I'll try to make it to as many seminars...
It takes some time to get used to seiza for most people, but rest assured, it *will* get easier over time if you train regularly. If you want to specifically improve your seiza endurance, you could...
It's not something I've seen as part of the "official" curriculum of the Muso Shinden ryu (which I study), but I've seen various examples of similarly unconventional technique done at seminars by the...
I might add as well, that this interest in the stamina aspects of iai training has a lot to do with the fact that our club's regularly visiting instructor from the Netherlands is a former competing...
Well, maybe it is kind of an acquired taste. I didn't enjoy it much initially myself, preferring to work on kata and the other juicy stuff. But later I've come to regard suburi and kihon waza as...
Oh, I see what you're saying - quality over quantity any day of the week! Granted, if the exercise had been only about getting the numbers in, it would have been largely pointless. But actually, a...
Just finished my New Year's stamina exercise - 3,333 cuts. My right shoulder is aching, and my palms have a nice assortment of blisters. Plus my brain is half fried from the tedious counting! :D
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You have to pay more for a larger amount of non-matter? :D Why would you want the hi to extend into the nakago anyway? Just makes it easier for choji oil, dust or other gunk to gather underneath the...
Gives a new meaning to the phrase "you turn me on"!
Roar, I'm afraid this has cemented my not so high opinion of kendoka. They cannot be particularly critical as consumers, what with all the ludicrous stuff that's marketed towards them (remember the...
Nothing personal, but I take exception to this kind of logic. If you keep bumping your saya into various obstacles, you primarily need to work on your zanshin. After all, awareness of one's...
I have handled a sword that was very similar in appearance to the one you're considering. Found it to be too hefty for iai. The saya was poorly carved, too, making it very difficult to draw or sheath...
Roar: I have a book with lots of pictures of TSKSR iai done by Risuke Osake. (It's the French edition of The Deity and the Sword.) As far as I can tell, the noto shown there is quite different from...
I'll say straight out what the previous poster implied: You can't really learn the finer points of swordsmanship from a video. Doesn't matter if it's a bokken, an iaito or a sharp sword; you need a...
I have never seen an iaito with o-kissaki. Iaido techniques such as simultaneous drawing and cutting or noto seem more suitable for swords with medium or small kissaki.
PS: By the way, you...
Well, Jason, glad to see the jet lag has finally subsided! ;)
Indeed. You might want to do a search here on eBudo and also over at Sword Forum International, where the topic of bo-hi has been discussed countless times. The short answer is that there are many...
Poor choice of words on my behalf. I meant that as a set the kata do not come from a single koryu. Somewhat similar to seitei iai.
The ten (?) Kendo no Kata are a specific set of paired kata with no direct koryu lineage behind them. Their purpose is to familiarize kendoka with kata training, as opposed to suburi (drills and...
It's no problem to buy a bare blade. What are you looking for; antique nihonto, modern shinsakuto, japanese-style "gajinto" made by foreign smiths, other?
Aoi-art has a nice selection of shinken,...