Toyama ryu kenjutsu sparring

found this video somwhere over the Internet. Very rar sparring video of some japanese people fighting with blunt steel katanas. The style is Toyama ryu.
enjoy

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Sports

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• Toyama
• ryu
• kenjutsu
• sparring
• katana
• freeplay
• steel
• samurai

[dasdatmitch07]

this needs to happen more often. i would like to see a revival of swordsmanship through the development of better "games" like these. worldwide tournaments even

[KhuranDixal]

So please let us see something from you, if you're so skilled :)

[Fartloading6Fartload]

@TheKrynnium if you are looking for something like this, i'm pretty sure you won't find it in America. although you might be able to find a kendo dojo in North Carolina. but you will be training with shinai and will probably never touch a steel sword however.

[TheKrynnium]

this was an excellent video, in my uneducated opinion. i am an amateur boxer, but my ultimate goal is to train with a blade. Not necessarily to learn how to kill with one, but to learn about the pride and discipline that seems to come with it. im just having a hard time breaking into the art because i dont currently know of any dojo near my location. moving to North Carolina soon, however, and am hoping to find something out there. anyone have any tips on getting started?

[kegage408]

@linkinfacu(con’t): As to my being “just another "sporty martial artist", if my responses here do not convince you of the seriousness in which I take my training and my art, then I will have to relegate you into the category of those “Martial Arts Snobs” that have determined that anything different from how they train is inferior, and therefore is to be dismissed and criticized, regardless of the obvious knowledge and skills of those they condemn.

[kegage408]

@linkinfacu(con’t): In my 30+ years of training, I have seen many people from other disciplines come and go, and the two overall difficulties they had were adjusting to delivering and receiving full power cuts, and developing their skills in perceiving and reacting to an attack. This was mainly due to the previous light, or nonexistent sparing training they had received

[kegage408]

@linkinfacu(con’t): Taken to its core, kata is a choreographed training routine. If you’re martial discipline is training to fight; those things alone will only teach the elements that can be use in a fight, not how to use them in a fight. Someone that bases their training in kata and drills will be technically proficient in those aspects, but will be lacking in the necessary perception and reaction skills needed for the unknowns of combat to be competent in fighting without actually fighting

[kegage408]

@linkinfacu: Thank you for your response and your English is fine. I do, however slightly resent the stupid remark. We may have different ways of viewing the martial arts, but they are just that, different. Neither is right or wrong. How someone is “better” can be subjective. I do not deny the beauty, function, and discipline acquired through the traditional methods of training. As I stated before, they are a primary part of my training, but kata is not fighting.

[linkinfacu]

@kegage408 dont be stupid! you think that because a martial artist doesnt have for priority in his training the sparring you will be better? your just another "sporty martial artist" the real beauty of these arts is in their tradicional way and trainings, not in only train for "combats" and sparring and let go all the tradicional things. (sorry for the shitty english ^^ )

[horim2004]

Also, these are definitely steel swords.

It's obvious most of you have never heard the sound of steel swords hitting each other with your own ears. That's the sound it makes. How it sounds in the movies isn't how it sounds in real life, it's actually much different.

[horim2004]

This is a great video, and an even greater combat session.

I have been waiting for Eastern Martial Arts to catch up to the Euros - HEMA has been going pretty hardcore full contact free-play with blunted steel for several years, while us East Asians have been messing around with foam boppers. Useless. Even using bokken isn't quite the same thing, it doesn't approximate the same type of fear factor. Your whole approach and strategy will become different from when you know it's 100% safe.

[Kunstdesfechtens]

@gottitgood4me Fiore and Meyer show the sword behind the head/back in their manuals. One is like Hasso angled down and back over the shoulder, and the other is Hasso behind the head with the point still up. It allows a very powerful cut. If you know your range very well, you can make good use of it. If you don't, it's another story. :)