Forum: Waza

Hello Everyone, I've been curious about how everyone is taught for hitting dou in general. My interest is to know what everyone says, not to change nor try to change anyones mind about, but to know how is done in different doujous and to hear what you've been told about my third description....

Every time I seem to train, I would usually not be the first to attack. Say someone would go for men, I would be fast enough to put my shinai up but by the time I'm ready to go forward and hit them they are already too close. I've tried practising slowely using timing. Say your opponent would...

At a recent Taikai, I saw all uchidachi, while doing nanahonme, assume waki-gamae following the cut to shidachi's head. In contrast to this, on ZenKenRen's youtube profile AND in Kendo: The difinitive guide by Ozawa sensei, both demonstrate that from the cut, it is a straight raise to kamae...

I had a question about something one of my senseis said to me (in japanese) about how to follow up your hiki do. I think what he was saying to me was: 1) If you do a small do strike don't retreat for your zanshin. You have to hit do, take a half step (or so) back then continue to attack 2 or...

For my first 11 years or so in various martial arts, I was a waza collector, looking at each waza as being of use for a particular scenario, a counter to a counter etc. My approach was to layer chains of techniques together trying to overwhelm my opponent with speed and through better technique. I...