Battojutsu Sword Kata tournament Performance

[edwintkdjiujitsu]

I HATE when parents bring their little kids, and cant control them. They end up crossing the mat during the demonstration. Ending in serious injuries. Im glad the little runt kid didn't get hurt.

[StraightGaming187]

omg id fuck any1 up when i pick up a sword weak ass moves in this video

[RaiAntou]

Batto = Drawing the sword out

Jutsu = The way of

do = The way of I study iaido, kendo and tameshigiri. And if you want to focus on the strikes and cuts, then try tameshigiri . The tameshigiri, which focus on the strikes and cuts, is part of iaido. And its pronounced but-tole-joot-tsu

[sedativechunk]

Of all my videos on here this one got the most ridiculous comments. I really find some of these comments insulting. This is the way I learned sword kata, I am proud of my own performance of it.

If you people all leaving negative comments on here are serious martial artist and/or are black belts you should be ashamed of your attitude towards others. There is no right or wrong way to do martial arts. This is the way I was taught, if it's wrong in your school good for you, it doesn't affect me.

[nicostormUK]

@sedativechunk then you might want to do a bit of research into iaijutsu and battojutsu outside of what you have been taught, and then maybe ask your teachers about where there teachings come from, styles, teachers, lineage etc.

[SENSEIMICK]

@sedativechunk

Well said, i totaly agree with you, and i like the kata, i would slow it down a bit but thats just me,

Oh and am a 1st Dan Batto-Jutsu and 6th Kyu iaido as well as 3rd Dan Cane Do, 2nd Dan Shotokan Karate, Freestyle Karate

[davidthrashdat]

slow and sloppy

[kendosendo]

cant even bow correctly.......bullshido i fear

[sedativechunk]

@kendosendo It's not "bullshido", this is the way I was taught and it is the right way for our style at the school I learned this. Just because our bow maybe different from your's doesn't mean it's the wrong way to bow. Some styles bow fast, others don't even bow on the floor. Other sword practitioners take the sword out and lay it in front of them and then bow. In today's world there are so many different ways to bow and take karate, you can't call one right or one wrong.

[kendosendo]

@sedativechunk well its not like any bow i have seen in Kendo,Iaido,Shinkage ryu,itto ryu etc.Firstly The sword should not tip up when you bow,the sword may fall out etc.sloppy, cuts are wrong and poorly executed..not taught by any bona fide school in Japan im sure....im all for different MA but dont pretend this is based on any Trad sword art in Japan..made up,maybe not by you but someone has and passed it off as genuine...look at a video of a real sword school from Japan and you will see!

[Maceofblades]

No Offence to the user, but that is a tournement style of kata, and style. Which translates into low usage in normal combat. Even though blades aren't used in combat now, it can take the same techniques with a sword and translate them over for a cane.

[VictoryTKDSouth]

very nice, but your noto needs a little work.

[PappeH]

This is the only tournament I ever compete at haha. I train in Shotokan but also train in Battojutsu and I plan on competing with it.

[sedativechunk]

Thanks for the comments everyone! I wish I could read some of the Japanese comments below.

To people fighting on here, don't be so cynical and serious! Enjoy your style of karate for what it is and don't attack others. One thing with all martial artist today is they are all too serious. You should embrace other styles of karate and be willing to learn new things, that's how different styles of karate have been formed in the past!

[guyver20]

lol soo xma ... okay two major points. one the guy re adjusts his grip at least once if not twice during his "kata" which gives a fairly large opening and point number two his chiburi involved like one and a half twirls and a very unsmooth noto something you will never see in iaido/jutsu and battodo/jutsu.

[IaidoPeople]

...これわ日本の武術じゃない...アメリカ人の自我流だ～！­！

[Naisho07]

100%私の意味です。I very much like your phrase of "American Ego Style". I think that is exactly what it is.

peace

[IaidoPeople]

He will be a good cook...

[Naisho07]

lol!! At McDonald's maybe :-) not sure those cuts will even cut pickles. He never brings the tip of the sword down to make the blade level... the katana does not cut on touch or push... it cuts on contact and pull.

And.... would you like fries with that?

[dan16387]

so u are going to volunteer a video with better skills then?. Why is it that all so called "martial artist" want to always make others feel less in order to make themselves feel better. Its kind of sad, hounestly i bet half the ppl that comment dont know much of the martial way, certainly judged by most of comments on youtube, know nothing of the true meaning of the martial science.

[Naisho07]

Bold statements to make without researching the people that posted. I, myself, am involved with the marital arts and if you want to know the true meaning of the arts... then visit me here in Tokyo and I will be happy to introduce you to the martial art's dojo of your choice here in Japan. I will teach you the difference between "show form" and "art form".

[dan16387]

hm ok. Not bold statements , hounest statements. You are involved in Martial arts, thats fantastic, its a pitty you cant seem to embrace the Martial Spirit. I am also a student of the arts, i am 25 years old and have been a practioner for almost 20 years now. I dont need to learn the difference in "forms" from you, i have already learnt well from another. The martial arts is an expression of ones self, therefore who is to say right way , wrong way, when it is the individual way that is important

[dan16387]

You are in Tokyo, perhaps the next time i can return to Asuka, we can trade knowlodge.

[Naisho07]

You wrote that your style is called Battojutsu and it is the art of cutting.... um, then what are you cutting?

Cheers

[fucduck]

the air, can~t you hear the sound of the air being cut?

[Naisho07]

Nice one :-)

Also looks like he is cutting bread at 0:52

[IaidoPeople]

...これわ日本の武術じゃない...アメリカ人の自我流だ～！­ ！

[Proton1]

He wouldn't last two weeks in a real dojo.

[CoolnessLink]

Come on now.. don't compare him with anime! That doesn't exist!

[bigdaddycoolshoes]

He made that up!

[dragonvalor9991]

nice cuts, nice speed i dont like the movements between the cuts i prefer fast movements, i think you can do it too, however a kata is a kata, nive performance.

[IshiYamaRyuSeattle]

Out of curiosity, what style is this that you are performing, and why is it that some of your cuts end with the sword at chudan level?

[curlywolf]

i'm also very curious as to the particular style or lineage or whatebver you want to call it from your style.. looks interesting.

[IaidoPeople]

...これわ日本の武術じゃない...アメリカ人の自我流だ～！ ！ Fake~!!

[Raphaell92]

@IaidoPeople 同感です

[Rezic]

Lemme get this straight... Battojutsu= after drawing your sword, Iaijutsu/Iaido= w/o drawing your sword?

[butingxi]

Iaido is drawing your sword and killing in one or two moves, usually an ambush or similar situation where your blade is put away. i do not train in Battojutsu, so i cant speak on it. Iaido's first cut is often to beat an attack, sometimes another attack or guard or parry, then a killing blow

[exekiel99]

this is kata style ... the basics is to stop an incoming atack and respond with quick series of cuts to inflict damage ... there are 3 types of batto techniques, KATA (sequencial), SUBURI (individual style, based on the fast drawing to overcome an enemy) and TAMESHIGIRI ( based only on quick cuts, there are world champioships of this and world records, search it on youtube ;D) i'm surprised

kumitekiddotcom's instructor doesn't know it ^^ hope i'm of help

[kumitekiddotcom]

You have the part about Battojutsu right. From what my instructor tells me, other styles such as Iaido focus only on the cut itself. They have other techniques of course, but their "bread and butter" technique is the draw.

Battojutsu has a number of draws with more unique types of strikes when the sword is out from what I've been told. I've never practiced in other styles of sword to really know if that's true or not.

[butingxi]

Iaido focuses on killing with the drawing slash, So it dosn't focus as much on subsequent cuts

[hanaman1]

as much as i know, iaido is somewhat of a modern incarnation of battojutsu, while battojutsu is a koryu and also focuses on drawing but has more technique then iaido after the first slash. it should be used in combination with kenjutsu.

[butingxi]

the techniques are around the same age (15-17th century) However Iaido is a Koryu as well. They differ with the use of the word "do" vs "jutsu" whereas a "do" is usually used in the sense of "the way" and "jutsu" is usually "the path"

So traditionally martial arts with the Do-suffix are geared mainly towards the practice and perfecting of, where arts with Jutsu are geared more towards actual battlefield applications.

Iaidos lack of postslash movements is because the should be dead after the 1st

[hanaman1]

oh, i see. thank you.i thought that the do suffix is granted to the modern MA like judo and kendo witch are based on jujitsu and kenjutsu respectively. and about the translation... i'm pretty sure that jutsu means technique because in ninjutsu (i train in ninjutsu) we call some of the kata either technique (because the are used in front of a real enemy) or jutsu.

[IshiYamaRyuSeattle]

Well battojutsu is just an older word to refer to "techniques of drawing the sword". The term iaijutsu became popular later on, but both tend to refer to techniques that start with the sword in the saya. Modern batto styles tend to add more cuts after the draw than modern iaido (seitei), but the use of the term battojutsu or iaijutsu/do is really more a preference. Old schools like Yagyu Seigo Ryu Battojutsu or Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu Iaijutsu both have multiple cuts after the draw.

[mekugi]

@kumitekiddotcom Batto is just the older word for Iai. The term Iai became popular in the 1920's and 1930's with a revival of interest in swords and the martial arts, particularly coinciding with the rise of Japanese nationalism. That being said, the two words are used interchangeably in Japan.

[SeaGhost144]

I think your kata is beautiful. I want to learn a "sword style" for lack of a better word, after collage. I'm working on karate now, but after I become a weapon, I want to learn how to use a weapon.

[kumitekiddotcom]

Go for it! Battojutsu is great to take up but hard to find instructors. Our sparring practices are with foam weapons and it's alot more fun and less painful than Kendo. Alot of instructors, at least around here anyway, stress that you should have some regular karate (empty hand) training before learning any weapons, though, so don't be surprised if you get turned away by places.