Tameshigiri

[dojoz2]

Cont. now, if you join Nami ryu you must have the fallowing items. boken, wooden wakasashi, wooden tanto, hakama, obi, kimono top, James might ask you to buy a surefire flashlight, a hissatsu knife, hissatsu trainer & a hissatsu folder knife, videos,

books & in the future live set of bugei katana, wakasashi & tanto. Like any schools you must commit 100%

[dojoz2]

Nami Ryu is a good average budo and if you stay long enough you might learn something. Nami ryu is not for everyone and most do not stay long. For the first and second year, all you do is ukemi and rokudan kata. If you are worthy of their click or group, then you will be offered Kepanship and take the blood oath and you can no longer practice any other arts except what they teach you. Think hard before you join and if you join, just shut your mouth and do what they say. No if and or buts.

[DojoFourWinds]

James Williams instructs Nami Ryu Aiki Heiho. The mats in this video are soaked. I have no clue which model he is using, but I know that that is a Bugei blade. I hope this clears up questions.

[HaMoOhAhA]

For reference, this is James Williams, a pretty famous martial artist and head of the Bugei Trading Company. I can't remember the name of the style he practices. He is probably using one of the swords they Bugei sells. They're very good products.

[dojoz2]

HaMoOhAha, Correction, from what I know James is not the head of Bugei, Mr. Jessie I think is the head. James is the front man but not the head. If you visit Bugei now you will not see James there. He is busy doing seminars and training. Also in grand scale of martial arts he is famous but not that famous. I agree, if you have the bucks, buy bugei. But me, Paul Chen, Hanwei is very good stuff.

[ifdc]

dry makiwara's are alot easier to cut and that's true. But that's only if you are sandan like me in ryuseiken and has imakotetu like me. using cheap(less than $7000) non japanese made sword this man doing quite impressive. Although I still think he needs to focus more on the flow of the blade and the kissaki alittle more from my point of view. It's not easy to be Japanese. We have high expectations in our country. But very close though.

[Gilmaris]

$7000 is far from cheap. Cheap would be less than $500. If you start out with good quality steel there is no need for the laborious process which is one of the reasons nihonto cost so much. The other reason is because nihonto have more prestige by simple virtue of being made in Japan by a traditional master - not because they're better. If you want quality above aesthetics, my money would be on Howard Clark, who makes very expensive ($6000 or more) bainite katana.

[Gilmaris]

That's fully mounted and polished. The blade itself will cost "only" $3800.

[dojoz2]

Gilmaris, James Williams owns a Howard Clark bainite katana and he already chipped it by accident. If I have the money I will still buy a nihonto if not, I just buy a Paul Chen katana. Paul Chen makes katana for James and they are just as good or even better than bugei swords.

[Gilmaris]

Paul Chen makes swords for Bugei. The lower-end PCs, though (practical series) are not of nearly as good quality as the ones Bugei sell. As for the chipped L6, no sword is invulnerable. But I guarantee you the L6 will hold up better than anything else you'll find. Rusts more easily, though, so I hear. And, of course, not anywhere near as aesthetically pleasing.

[dojoz2]

Gilmaris, I agree as well with your comments. I have Hanwei XL practical plus. It looks like the shobu version of bugei. I tested it and it was awesome. As rusting, I had no problems.

[matts417]

thats a real swords man

[Xinsama]

I'm incredibly impressed! You're a master.

[Robbie92and92]

It is real??This its a pitty,i dont have this katana

[saoroy]

Excellent form and though the video wasn't as sharp as I'd like it to be, it looked like he used a beautiful custom katana. Great work.

[Viciouscrow]

i know from previous videos that he practices the fine art of Aikido, his performance was wonderful, and his foot work is nothing short of excellent, his Ki was superb. Thank You

[turtlejuice15]

Don't mean to be rude; but anyone who doubts this man's skill is a damn fool. It doesn't take a student of his to see that he's good; and I think it would be hard for James Williams to be a samurai considering their extinction and all. So stop hating.

[HidenMakimono]

This man is using dry makiwaras . Well it is easier to cut a dry makiwara than a wet one.In Japan and Korea serious artists soak these makiwaras in water for 24 hours.The wet heavy makiwara gives resistance to the blade as it cuts through, this resistance is sinmilar to the human body.There is no secret here...just get a sharp blade ..Da! Some positive comments here, for this performance, might have been written by the faithful students of this samurai !!

[ninpo4me]

You fail to relize that he is using double rolled makiwaras. Watch his hips and balance, very smooth, very fast. Do you study kenjutsu?

[Garrador666]

great!

[johndoe75]

Those Bugei katana's don't lie mayn

[dparks2004]

Wow, performing a Mizu Gaeshi from both directions. thats awesome.

[knockermom]

big deal. He walks on his toppy toes..he has terrible form. Another wanabe samurai.

[siloraptor]

Very few would have notice that (ashi waza). But tameshigiri is not so much an art as it is more an exercise mainly develop to test swords. So usually the people who performed tameshigiri were good with a sword but they were not necessarily samurai.

[ninpo4me]

HAHA I love it, you have no idea what you are talking about, but you need to open your mouth. Good luck with all that

[TigerPatamon]

bugei trading compay swords pwn xD

[KuangGM2]

Nice vid

[XIII123]

nice

[hitokirii]

great performace