Chokuto or Dobari sytle shinai??

[pamiro]

hello all,
which type of shinai you prefer? should one have both depending on what they will practice??

[pamiro]

80 views no reply??!!
maybe it wasnt clear....

how do you prefer your shinai's center of gravity??
balanced or at the tip?? what are your ideas?

[Musha]

Hi pamiro,

I love my Dobara shinai from E-bogu http://www.e-bogu.com/musmadbamon.html . The weight and balanced seem much better than my cheap Shinai. I did not really know what dobara was but my sensei said it was better for things like Tsuriage.

BTW I named my forum name after my Shinai

[Neil Gendzwill]

Dobari style is better for beginners or intermediate players. Chokuto works nice for hitting men and for... well, hitting men. They're heavy, the weight is evenly distributed, you can't move the tip so quickly... good for an older person's style of kendo.

[heri0n]

you know if you used the search function you would find a million topics that already covered this topic

[JSchmidt]

I got a variety of shinai's..plain vanilla ones (Which I actually only use for competition!), chokuto (which I actually find better for suriage, as your shinai wont get pushed away so easily), a new dobari I just picked up in Japan (I wasn't going to buy any, but after trying that one, I had to buy it), but my main shinais are somewhere inbetween dobari & chokuto. Somewhat heavy (but not too tip heavy), somewhat thick in the middle and with the mass spread out over a wider area than the typical dobari.
I vary in the type of shinai I like and use, although I never use the chokuto for jodan. (It would break my wrist if I missed the target ).

Jakob

[pamiro]

thanks, ill take the thread a bit to another topic ...as it was covered before in other threads (ill do a search before next time! )

what about customising the shinai ?! i saw some people with diferent color strings and other leather parts (green tsuka!) names written over the tsuka with red name stamps...