General iaido related issues
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Introduction: This is a guide intended to help beginners with buying their first iaito. Before shopping for an iaito, be sure your sensei thinks you are ready for one. The most important point in this entire guide, which will be reiterated incessantly, is this: ASK YOUR SENSEI FIRST! I cannot...
Hi Minna-san, I was just looking for information on Sword Forum International and I ran across this extremely informative thread that shows in graphic detail using photos, how a wallhanger(The dangerous 440-steel swords and the like.) is made. Would you please sticky this to the top of the...
Hi all My name's Martin. I am from Switzerland and new to the forum. But not new to Iai. Later on I will post an introduction here as well with more info (if someone want's to know...). I am curious about something. It's common knowlegde that after WW2 some combative elements where taken out of...
Body and mind aching, feet sore but a good weekend! Congratulations to 1-Cut (sandan), Gareth and Dale (nidan) on a successful grading. Big thanks to Andy, Aurelien and Lucy for your knowledge and patience with an old dog learning new tricks. (Especially the highlighted bit!!!)
My name’s Martin from Basel, Switzerland. I am new here on the forums but not new to Iaido. I am 37 and started out with Karate at twelve. My focus shifted then more to Japanese history, culture and arts with frequent trips to Japan. With 21 I picked up training in Iai (Seitei, MSR, Tamiya Ryu)....
Why can't I get my Iaito blade to make that satisfying whistle as I cut through the air? I know that its not an aim and it should come with time, but it seems everyone else in my club has no difficulty eliciting that delightful sound from their blades-even beginners! My technique is...
hello everybody. Is anyone fammiliar with the wck solingen iaito? check it at www.wkc-sports.com Any opinions? Thank you
Hi all, After coming across a few articles online a kata called Sode Suri Komi kept popping up in some. I read a while back on the forums that it may have been one of the waza added in the bangai no bu of the komei juku yamauchi ha MJER my Sekiguchi Sensei. I believe it was mentioned on the...
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We're happy to announce that the Rembukan Dojo of Annapolis, MD is offering an iai clinic April 10-11, 2010 with their Iai teachers. These yearly events have always been wonderfully small and intimate allowing for maximum interaction between the student and the Hachidan and Hachidan candidates...
Has anyone heard further on this. Last I heard the date got moved up a week and the venue that was originally picked was deemed too small. I know that close to this time last year we had the full packet out and I haven't heard anything beyond the above.
Guelph Spring Iaido and Jodo Seminar Well the tickets are bought, the sensei invited, the rooms booked. The 2010 Guelph Spring Iaido and Jodo Seminar is now well under way, all we need now is for those registration forms to start rolling in. In the last few years we've had quite a few...
I was considering writing a post soon disucssing how to figure out how to syncrhonize arm movement to tanden movement with the goal to be how to move the arms with a tanden rotation. Anyone else familar with the concept? I think CMA guys refer to a similar movement as "immortal turtle rises...
One of the training tips I've heard about, from athletes, is the use of visualisation of movements to improve performance. It seems that sprinters and high jumpers et al., mentally run through the race step by step using all their powers of imagination to render a lucid mental image and it seems...
I'd like to have a hanging scroll made for the kamiza of my Iai dojo to act as a focal point for Kamiza rei etc as at present its just a plain white-washed wall with a basketball hoop above it! However I'm a little stuck for ideas of what would be appropriate. I thought the club name wouldn't be...
OK i'm a few days behind but I caught up on my reading on kenshi247.net and had to say this. I never had much interest in studying iaido but this is cool. It just made me go "wow" Thanks Oroshi! (and of course, Kenshi)
My apologies if this is posted in the wrong location. Can anyone assist me with translating the mei on my iaito? http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a111/blampe/iaito.jpg http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a111/blampe/iaito2.jpg Cheers
Okay, that's hyperbole. I know I've never seen anyone claim their teacher held them to the first technique in their style for 12 years, but I seem to recall some folks here saying they spent a protracted period of time with the first technique before they were moved onto the next. Just wondering...
Many arts are inter-related and carry over a lot of similar terminology and concepts. For written exams, do you consider it appropriate to discuss knowledge gained from outside that particular art being tested without discussing those outside arts? Say for example the test questions for Yondan...
This stuff makes me so angry; not that the guy used a sword to 'defend' himself, but that the public opinion will impact the arts we love. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/02/11/samurai-dad-who-sliced-off-rape-yob-s-ear-cleared-for-defending-family-115875-22034198/
Why is it as I get a little better I feel like I have so much more to learn?
This post is part of an ongoing through process of the how/whys of seitei iaido as well as to help me figure out a teaching methodology. This will not be a post regarding jo ha kyu (序破急) either. While I realize that not all iaido styles move slowly throughout the kata more than one student or...
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