18th All Japan Jukendo Championship

[snooz2k2]

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[vyung]

Thanks for the report, Baptiste! It's good to see what jukendo looks like at a high level. Nice report and videos.

[b8amack]

Those tsuki look rough.

[Missingno.]

So are thrusting attacks the only valid attacks in Jukendo? I don't really know anything about it, but that looks like it's what they're doing.

[snooz2k2]

Yes, Only tsuki is authorized

[birch]

Hi all, very nice enbu juken vs. tanken. Does anybody know some literature, video or web page about tankendo kihon?
Thank you.

[snooz2k2]

Well, the tankendo's kata should normally be introduced (if we live long enough ) in the next Kendo-world issue (5.3).
In issue 5.1, we introduced the 8 juken vs juken kata, and in the the last 5.2 issue, we explained the 6 juken vs sword kata.
There are still 3 sets of kata to be introduced :
- 6 juken vs tanken
- 7 tanken vs tanken
- 6 tanken vs sword

We should then continue in issue 5.3 with juken vs tanken.

The all japan jukendo federation released a long time ago 2 VHS to promote jukendo (kihon, kata, shiai, refereeing), but they never did it for the tankendo...
The tanken is largely introduced in the book "100 years of history of jukendo", but it is in Japanese only. No translation.

[snooz2k2]

Also if you are interested in this juken vs tanken demo, I can try to give you some hints :
- the standard kamae in jukendo is chuudan, but in a case of an ishujiai against the detached bayonet (and also against kendo but for a different reason), the jukendo practitioner would likely go for gedan, so his weapon cannot be easily grabbed by the opponent.
- Therefore, it means that the strategy of the tanken is to make the juken thrust, so he can dodge the blade, grab the riffle and stab the guy at close quarter.
- It is basically what happens in this shiai. But you noticed that the tanken could not get a valid ippon... This is because of the rule that stipulates that when the tanken goes to irimi (close quarter) he must stab the opponent on the doh (whether doh-dai or mune) immediately after he grabs the opponent's arm or weapon. In the video, the stabbing action is late, so the shinpan stops the fight and does not validate the irimi as a point (I guess, that's why we ALSO call modern budo "sports")
- In tankendo, even if Men is regarded as a valid datotsu-bui, it is not consider as a proper tankendo technique; same for kote (a bayonet does not cut like a kodachi-type nihon-to, it is mainly designed for stabbing). So the main form of attack is indeed tsuki. However, tankendo practitioners do train to strike men and kote, and also perform kirikaeshi in the kendo fashion during their training. One stone, 2 birds; or I might say one shinai, 2 arts... detached bayonet, or Japanese kodachi.

[birch]

Thank you a lot for your commnets.

[berghaan]

Nice report thanks.

[Hughes]

Un souci? Jukendo !

Nice report. We'd like to see the Tajiri-Sato match, sounds thrilling!

[snooz2k2]

Too bad, it was not recorded... ...