Jikishinkage-ryu Naginata

Taken from the 75th anniversary of the Nihon Kobudo Shinkokai, Tokyo, on the 15th August, 2010.

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• kobudo
• naginata

[Korban3]

@nahrubwg Technique is greater than power. There are some martial arts in which practitioners were tought how to rip your throat out with their bare fingers. Really, a parry is not stopping a blow dead in the air. A parry's goal is to deflect the attack away from your body. Even in hand to hand combat, you parry by pushing your opponents punch to the side. The big factors of successfully parrying are leverage and form, not strength.

[SamuraiTankyuusha]

@mmacconn069 I like naginatajutsu. I'm going to learn some.

[alopex1197]

@ChishioAme I thought as much. Unlike koryu the old European art of fencing is dead. We have some surviving European fencing manuals but they are just notes that are supposed to be a complement to the now lost actual training. There are a lot of dead koryu in Japan as well (indeed most of them are) - if you think you can reconstruct them from the densho (written text) alone without kuden (transfered experience) you simply don't know enough about koryu or armed martial arts.

[ChishioAme]

@alopex1197 Practice weapon of choice). And, if someone says "hey, wouldn't this interpretation be easier and make more sense?", masters of the style actually listen and consider it, whereas with Japanese weapon arts, you just get shut down; it's either their way or the highway (I know this for a fact, because a close friend of mine quit training after 2 years because of this).

[ChishioAme]

@alopex1197 Mean the difference between life and death? And how? No, it wasn't. When a few extra minutes of training can bridge that gap, you don't waste time piddle-farting around; you train. At least, that's what should be done and if that's not what was done then I've lost even more respect for Japanese weapon arts. The longsword is constantly practiced with intent, full speed, and generally full power (can't always perform the latter on account of steel blunts being the preferred

[ChishioAme]

@alopex1197 I practice the German longsword, a style that has a dozen clearly written manuals from times when the sword was the dominant weapon on the battlefield (figuratively speaking, since a polearm would have been the first choice before it), as opposed to having been constantly worn away over the centuries by edicts and decrees against such things. Do you really think that what is taught now in Japanese styles is exactly what was taught when being good with your sword could...

[alopex1197]

@ChishioAme Bugei Ryuha Daijiten lists more than 100 koryu... sure you have seen them all? And if you don't like Japanese styles... what weapon styles do you like? The japanese koryu are the only one that can trace the techniques back to the battle field afaik - much has been lost but not if you compare with traditions outside Japan that are mostly modern inventions/interpretations or circus arts...

[ChishioAme]

Not bad... Now let's see you do something with intent. Main reason I'm sick of Japanese styles (despite really liking the weapons) is there's no intent; it's like watching a boned fish flop around. Koryu place far too much emphasis on ritual and things end up like this where it's pattern after pattern. It's annoying as hell for someone with an interest trying to get a feel for the style.

[Mrdevandude]

BEAT HIS ASS WIT DA STICK!

[nahrubwg]

I still don't understand.

how can one handed weapon can parry 2 handed sword vertical cut?

Though it tries to deflect, i don't think it will be that easy.

need a super human power

[solnegrolunaroja]

Thanks for sharing this with us.