Battojutsu Sword Kata tournament Performance

This is a video of me performing a sword kata at the Laurel State Karate Championship on October 19, 2008.

I would like to keep the name of this sword kata private, as it's a practice in my dojo to keep them private until learned.
My style of sword is called Battojutsu (pronounced Ba - too - jit - su), which is the Japanese "cutting art" in Japanese. Unlike Iaidō, BattoJutsu focuses on the strikes and cuts in which the practitioner uses after drawing the sword.

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[Rezic]

Lemme get this straight... Battojutsu= after drawing your sword, Iaijutsu/Iaido= w/o drawing your sword?

[kumitekiddotcom]

You have the part about Battojutsu right. From what my instructor tells me, other styles such as Iaido focus only on the cut itself. They have other techniques of course, but their "bread and butter" technique is the draw.

Battojutsu has a number of draws with more unique types of strikes when the sword is out from what I've been told. I've never practiced in other styles of sword to really know if that's true or not.

[SeaGhost144]

I think your kata is beautiful. I want to learn a "sword style" for lack of a better word, after collage. I'm working on karate now, but after I become a weapon, I want to learn how to use a weapon.

[kumitekiddotcom]

Go for it! Battojutsu is great to take up but hard to find instructors. Our sparring practices are with foam weapons and it's alot more fun and less painful than Kendo. Alot of instructors, at least around here anyway, stress that you should have some regular karate (empty hand) training before learning any weapons, though, so don't be surprised if you get turned away by places.

[Naisho07]

100%私の意味です。I very much like your phrase of "American Ego Style". I think that is exactly what it is.

peace

[bigdaddycoolshoes]

He made that up!

[edwintkdjiujitsu]

I HATE when parents bring their little kids, and cant control them. They end up crossing the mat during the demonstration. Ending in serious injuries. Im glad the little runt kid didn't get hurt.

[StraightGaming187]

omg id fuck any1 up when i pick up a sword weak ass moves in this video

[SENSEIMICK]

@sedativechunk

Well said, i totaly agree with you, and i like the kata, i would slow it down a bit but thats just me,

Oh and am a 1st Dan Batto-Jutsu and 6th Kyu iaido as well as 3rd Dan Cane Do, 2nd Dan Shotokan Karate, Freestyle Karate

[nicostormUK]

@sedativechunk then you might want to do a bit of research into iaijutsu and battojutsu outside of what you have been taught, and then maybe ask your teachers about where there teachings come from, styles, teachers, lineage etc.

[RaiAntou]

Batto = Drawing the sword out

Jutsu = The way of

do = The way of I study iaido, kendo and tameshigiri. And if you want to focus on the strikes and cuts, then try tameshigiri . The tameshigiri, which focus on the strikes and cuts, is part of iaido. And its pronounced but-tole-joot-tsu

[mekugi]

@kumitekiddotcom Batto is just the older word for Iai. The term Iai became popular in the 1920's and 1930's with a revival of interest in swords and the martial arts, particularly coinciding with the rise of Japanese nationalism. That being said, the two words are used interchangeably in Japan.

[kendosendo]

@sedativechunk well its not like any bow i have seen in Kendo,Iaido,Shinkage ryu,itto ryu etc.Firstly The sword should not tip up when you bow,the sword may fall out etc.sloppy, cuts are wrong and poorly executed..not taught by any bona fide school in Japan im sure....im all for different MA but dont pretend this is based on any Trad sword art in Japan..made up,maybe not by you but someone has and passed it off as genuine...look at a video of a real sword school from Japan and you will see!

[sedativechunk]

@kendosendo It's not "bullshido", this is the way I was taught and it is the right way for our style at the school I learned this. Just because our bow maybe different from your's doesn't mean it's the wrong way to bow. Some styles bow fast, others don't even bow on the floor. Other sword practitioners take the sword out and lay it in front of them and then bow. In today's world there are so many different ways to bow and take karate, you can't call one right or one wrong.

[sedativechunk]

Of all my videos on here this one got the most ridiculous comments. I really find some of these comments insulting. This is the way I learned sword kata, I am proud of my own performance of it.

If you people all leaving negative comments on here are serious martial artist and/or are black belts you should be ashamed of your attitude towards others. There is no right or wrong way to do martial arts. This is the way I was taught, if it's wrong in your school good for you, it doesn't affect me.

[davidthrashdat]

slow and sloppy