Teramoto's Winning Hiki-Men Strike

A slow motion look at the winning hiki-men strike at the 14th World Kendo Champs, 2009.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• kendo
• 14th
• WKC
• Teramoto
• hiki-men
• 寺本
• 世界選手権
• 剣道

[M1i2K3E4]

Can't see how he set it uppppp few seconds earlier than the hit would have been nice to see -_ -

[KendoWorld]

@M1i2K3E4 Check the full version, should show up in related vids :)

Also there should be enough there to hint as to how he pulled it off. ^.-

[mike4837]

holy the shinais are practically bending like rubber

[neogtrmn]

Perhaps I was a bit hasty in calling it a textbook hiki-men. I agree that it was a little off center in terms of his hands but nevertheless, I'd say all the elements of yukotatotsu are there.

[KendoWorld]

@neogtrmn Yep, taking the hands off centre is not pretty, but its obviously effective.

[MatheusRebelo]

1 people dislike this video... his name is Park '-'

[shotokanshdn]

@neogtrmn in the other full video if you can pause it @ 7:32 then you can see that Tearamoto Sensei had fallen into one of the shikai briefly but it was enough time because he tried to dodge it and Park had hit it straight on, it didn't slip or miss (i.e hitting the men-gare) it was a solid hiki-men, and right after that Teramoto Sensei had hit a straight men where Park had leaned back and gotten hit right above the men-gare, so alot of points were missed but this was a great match

[shotokanshdn]

For a tournament setting it does not need to be a text book hiki-men, thats why shinpan even at the AJKC call kote where one person is completely bent over to one side and hitting from an impossible angle. This is not a shinsa, its shiai, so this is a great hit.

[SelestynaArpa364]

I may not know much about kendo, but I just wanna say two things 1) that was cool. 2) BOOM! HEAD SHOT!

[ryanhertz]

Too deep...all right hand. His left hand twists above his right hand. When cutting men left hand on the bottom always.... right? Its just soooooo fast and loud. The photos of it in Kendo Jidai show many different angles. From the other side it looks like a bent cut,but only for 1/10th of a second

[msalazarx]

@neogtrmn i agree, not to prety waza but effective yukodatotsubui, nice zanshin also,

[JettPorkins]

Looks like Teramoto-san had a perfect hiki-men to me as well.