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Just to throw a tidbit in here. While the Toho kata are usually performed as part of a ZNIR rank exam, it is my understanding that they are de-emphasized in favor of the koryu waza also being...

Yes our dojo is still up and running. Feel free to drop in during any of the mentioned class times, although Friday night is kinda catch as catch can and may be going the way of the dodo. The...

I heard that. No soup for you!

I am 5'6" and comfortable with anything from 2.3.5 to a 2.5.0. Both my swords are 2-4-5, but Tanida-sensei says that I have very short arms(he actually measured them with a tape measure:scared:) and...

There is a great deal of forum posts which touch on Sekiguchi-sensei and his version of MJER. I'd suggest searching the forum archives here, at e-budo and at Swordforum.

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Says the guy who's in that line. ;-)

But yes Charles and you'll find most folks in the ZNKR agree with that as well. Even if we don't follow the style we recognize the papers... for what...

That is correct. Ikeda-soke is also the president of the ZNIR, as was Fukui-soke before him.

Let's be clear for a moment. The difference I was referring to were not differences of attitude, but actual differences in your feel of the blade. There are certain subtle issues with proper blade...

Sebastien, I've got to disagree with you here. I've been training with a live blade for a little more than 5 years now. Not that long really and truly, but long enough to learn that there are...

I suspect it depends on what is more prevalant within the ZNKR. If MSR is very dominant, then it would be tough to say for sure. If MSR is only slightly dominant or less practiced than MJER, then...

Iaito tsuka are usually not custom made. They are usuallly churned out in standard sizes and shimmed to fit at assembly time.

I don't know that I'd use electrical tape as a shim, since it's...

Yes. Iai without a combative focus, which loses focus on the practical concerns and application of the waza, is not Iai-do. It's bad iai.

Uh... but... ummm... Ahh somebody else do it.

That's true. The point I was trying to make is that it's not quite as clean cut as it might seem and people should reallly loosen up.

One of these days I'm going to find a video on Youtube of TSKSR Iai waza and post it as an example of kenjutsu, and a video of Eishin Ryu TUNK and post it as an example of iai. That should be...

Many years of practicing Iai has made me an ace at parallel parking on the left hand side of the road! :)

It seems to me that what Kenzan really needs is an instructor to guide him through this process. This isn't really something we should be helping him with beyond pointing to the usual dealers.
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I don't know that anyone within the Seitokai conisiders Batto ho to not be "pure" MJER. It is certainly considered every bit as much a part of the core curriculum as Oku Tachi Waza, or Tate Hiza. It...

Yes, but they were created by Kono Hyakuren-sensei and were later incorporated into the regular MJER curriculum (CONTEXT ALERT, I am of course referring to the Seitokai line here), probably by...

Ok. Thanks for that. It sounds like we are on the same page then. Interesting.

Ok just so that were sure I'm on the same page as everyone else. Could you confirm that your assertion is that Seitei is not koryu, and everything else is, ie TSKSR, MJER, MSR, Toyama Ryu, Shinkendo,...

Like I said. The article does a "better" job than my definition. ;)

This article does a much better job of explaining the term than I meager definition. http://www.koryu.com/koryu.html

Then I would submit that your understanding of the term is out of sync with the majority of JSA practitioners.

The generally accepted, albeit perhaps a bit arbitrary, definition is that the term koryu describes those arts which were founded prior to the Meiji Restoration. Thus Toyama Ryu is gendai, not...