Katana sword fighting - A.C.T. ( sparring with aikido, kendo, kenjutsu, ninjutsu practitioners)

Katana sparring. All strikes are allowed (face, fingers,legs,forearms, torso, neck...).Minimum protection. The sword weights about 1 kilo (much closer to the weight of the real blade than shinai.) Enjoy.

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Sports

Tags:

• katana
• sword
• fighting
• weapon
• armed
• combat
• tactics
• kendo
• kenjutsu
• ken
• aikiken
• ninjutsu
• sparring
• full
• contact
• blade

[haffoc]

Nice. Good to see kendo/kenjutsu people trying their stuff in sparring.

[ACTdirector]

@haffoc

The only way to know what works ,really.

[AlexTomFB]

what type of swords and were can you get them?

[ACTdirector]

@AlexTomFB

They are produced by our school, A.C.T. Armed Combat &Tactics. These and other types of blade simulators: knives, machete , yari , naginata and more.

[mistergrim1990]

very impressive Aikido, very wild movement good video.

[ACTdirector]

@TheBloodyBlackJackal

Well there is an ura kote... An upward short strike. But it is rare and it is very difficult to incorporate the false edge strike work from the hand and a half European sword into the work with the katana. Having said that, some principles are obviously overlapping. They are both big two handed blades, some resemblance is inevitable :). Keep on looking, let me know how it goes!

[TheBloodyBlackJackal]

@ACTdirector do you happen to know a name for any technique like this?

[TheBloodyBlackJackal]

@ACTdirector I am looking for a specific technique (assuming at exists) involving twisting the blade and doing a sort reverse strike. Something similar to european short edge strikes, but done by twisting the sword so it happens with the katana's long edge...

[Session01Hijack]

I practice all the time - at least 10 hours a day.

[CrimsonGetsu]

@ACTdirector I wish I had the opportunity to practice the beautiful art of swordsmanship :[