Japanese Sword Fighting

Japanese sword fighting performance took place at The Raku Art Festival in Chandler AZ. This made for any exciting afternoon.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Japanese
• sword
• fighting
• martial
• arts
• kung
• fu
• swords
• performing

[HeavensGremlin]

Sorry, a fat old turd just spoils the magic...lol Maybe he uses his blade for dicing his MacDonalds...lol..!

[Okaruwazashi]

"It's not aggressive."

"It's an executioner's technique"

ROFL

[ChishioAme]

@DingusDude01 Didn't I say it myself that taijutsu/bukijutsu are fractions of the conglomerate that is ninjutsu? That is my point. They are only small pieces of a larger art. Either teach every part of the art or call it something different; but then you lose the mystical appeal of "ninjutsu", so doing so becomes less profitable. I have great respect for Hatsumi as a martial artist; he is well above me in skill and sheer life experience. But I do not buy into the ninja hype, plain and simple.

[DingusDude01]

@ChishioAme I only save proper grammar for those who matter and aren't entirely ignorant. If Masaaki doesn't teach it, you better go tell him that. I can send you tons of unbiased links about it. I mean, he has various achievements and documentation of his position as GRAND MASTER of ninjutsu, along with hours of video, tons of books, and respected schools around the globe. Masaaki himself is a scholar. Doctor actually, but he has balance...fyi....taijutsu/buki­jutsu are subcategories in ninjutsu

[ChishioAme]

@DingusDude01 Of the art commonly called ninjutsu. Strictly speaking, if we were to pick a single group of warriors whose skills encompass all those that ninja were said to have practiced then the United States Marines (or, indeed, any spec-ops from any nation) are closer to being ninja than Hatsumi or any of his students.

[ChishioAme]

@DingusDude01 I'm having a very hard time taking you seriously when you're incapable of using basic grammar, which includes capitalization; especially when you say scholar like it's some kind of insult. I also happen to be a swordsman of some skill, though by no means as skilled as others. Oh, and by the way, Hatsumi Masaaki (and the Bujinkan), the end all expert on all things ninja (at least, according to you) does not teach ninjutsu. He teaches taijutsu and bukijutsu. Those are small fractions

[DingusDude01]

@ChishioAme why is it called ninpo or ninjutsu not shinobijutsu? its about nin. if you dont believe in the ninja's spirit, the heart of a warrior, then you dont understand ninjutsu. just the commercial made up stuff they started after the second world war. people like that that have killed its meaning. yes that was a run-on sentence. to make a point. i like them and stuff. but i doubt they dressed in black or did magic. meanings transcend language, and you are too much of a scholar to know that

[ChishioAme]

@DingusDude01 And if you want feelings, ideas, and spirit, go join a glee club or a summer camp. They are not, by any means, something that should be related to cut-throats.

[ChishioAme]

@DingusDude01 Wow, what shitty grammar you have. Shinobi, assuming they actually existed, were spies and occasional assassins. Ergo, I do not buy into the bullshit surrounding them, much of which you are spouting like a fanboy. While I can respect a man like Hatsumi's skill in his chosen art, I do not believe any of those things. And none of those translations came from Wikipedia; they were all from my own knowledge of the Japanese language, of which I am somewhat proficient in.

[DingusDude01]

@ChishioAme it may be defined as such. but the MEANING of a shinobi or to be a shinobi, as defined by the current soke, Masaaki Hatsumi, the top ninja, the baddest, oldest, and wisest, one of the leaders of the Bujinkan federation, in several of his books, videos and various writings, is to persevear, endure, and outlast the enemy. be it by stealth, assassination, or mystical crap. why you gotta be so literal? its not about definitions and wiki posts. its about feelings, ideas, and spirit.

[kilooneeight]

err, I could not help but notice how abruptly he resheaths the sword. he was sort of slamming it to the saya. now that is a no no is kenjutsu. In kenjutsu, etiquette is everything. you dont pull up you hakama so that you can sit down comfortably. you dnt slam the blade into the saya. I hope they were legit practitioners of a legitimate ryu. they might mislead people. and that is dangerous.

[ChishioAme]

@DingusDude01 Oh, really? Guess we'd better tell the Japanese they fail at their own language because "shinobi" means "stealth"; hell, shinobigoe means "to whisper." Anything dealing with secrecy usually has the word "shinobi" in it. "Creep in"? Shinobikomu. "Stealthy steps"? Shinobiashi. "Secret meeting"? Shinobiai. What part of that has anything at all to do with perseverance or endurance? Not a damn thing.