Tameshigiri...and food?

**Raffa** · 17th January 2012, 10:18 PM

well...nice however...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...Zqsn4Kjg&gl=IT

From:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13048417

**Anorymous** · 19th January 2012, 06:28 AM

That would be Isao Machii. An impressive cutter, but nothing more.

And as a personal note... when I see food used for tameshigiri, something inside me is utterly disgusted.

**pgsmith** · 19th January 2012, 07:49 AM

Makes me wish I had a high speed camera like that one though. Can you imagine how much you could learn from watching your swing in super slow motion?

**h2o** · 19th January 2012, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by pgsmith

Makes me wish I had a high speed camera like that one though. Can you imagine how much you could learn from watching your swing in super slow motion?

My compact camera which I bought for about $300 has a high speed setting for video. You have to sacrifice resolution though (320x240 I think?) but results are actually quite nice. And it didn't cost a fortune

**stealth_monkey** · 19th January 2012, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by Anorymous

That would be Isao Machii. An impressive cutter, but nothing more.

And as a personal note... when I see food used for tameshigiri, something inside me is utterly disgusted.

Sorry, I've seen that guy cut a bean pod symmetrically down the middle. Saying he's nothing more than an impressive cutter is saying Usain Bolt is nothing more than an impressive jogger. I have no comprehension of how much practise that guy has done, certainly more than many of us have practised iaido.

**Kokoro777** · 19th January 2012, 11:48 PM

A pig's head would've been an informative addition to the items cut....

Originally Posted by stealth_monkey

Sorry, I've seen that guy cut a bean pod symmetrically down the middle.

I've seen that too and, amazingly, he does it horizontally!

**pgsmith** · 19th January 2012, 11:49 PM

Originally Posted by stealth_monkey

Sorry, I've seen that guy cut a bean pod symmetrically down the middle. Saying he's nothing more than an impressive cutter is saying Usain Bolt is nothing more than an impressive jogger. I have no comprehension of how much practise that guy has done, certainly more than many of us have practised iaido.

That makes him an impressive cutter to me. What would you call him?

**Toecutter** · 20th January 2012, 12:08 AM

Dangerous as hell, do you know what the chances of getting Salmonella from a contaminated blade are? I hope he cleaned that thing well before he cut that hamburger.

**pgsmith** · 20th January 2012, 01:41 AM

Originally Posted by Toecutter

Dangerous as hell, do you know what the chances of getting Salmonella from a contaminated blade are? I hope he cleaned that thing well before he cut that hamburger.

If he's really good, he'll have cut any bacteria dumb enough to get near his sword!

**Jonathan** · 20th January 2012, 02:18 AM

It's not the "impressive cutter" part, but the "nothing more" that gets a raised eyebrow from me.

**Maro** · 20th January 2012, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by Jonathan

It's not the "impressive cutter" part, but the "nothing more" that gets a raised eyebrow from me.

When was the last time you were attacked by a bean?

**stealth_monkey** · 20th January 2012, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by Maro

When was the last time you were attacked by a bean?

When was the last time you were attacked by an imaginary teki?

As Jonathan said, it's the "nothing more" part that irked me. Surely we can appreciate the time and dedication a person puts into learning a skill even if we aren't personally motivated to learn it too? I know I'm proud of having several of my iai cuts down to a couple of inches of error. To have control of a blade down to a couple of mm, or to have the co-ordination to hit a pellet from a bb gun, that's something I know I can only aspire to.

**stealth_monkey** · 20th January 2012, 02:38 PM

Bah, missed the edit timer. For those interested:
Him cutting a bb pellet fired at him
At 3 minutes, him cutting a grain of rice in half

**pgsmith** · 21st January 2012, 12:56 AM

Surely we can appreciate the time and dedication a person puts into learning a skill even if we aren't personally motivated to learn it too?

Sure I can appreciate it, but it's not what I do. He has amazing skill, but parlaying that skill into celebrity status, and then using that status to start his own sword style, are not things that are consistent with the way my instructors have taught me to think about the sword arts. Therefore, I tend to be a bit dismissive of tricks like that as a waste of effort.

Here's another one for you to consider. This gentleman has obviously spent a great amount of time and dedication learning his skills. It is very impressive, and I couldn't do it. But, he's in the same boat as Isao Machii, tricks that I tend to dismiss as wasted effort because it isn't how I've been taught to look at these things ...
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