Bamboo Cutting

A demo of Japanese and Chinese sword test cutting. Shihan Productions(c).

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• bamboo
• cutting
• swords
• katana
• martial
• arts
• chinese
• straight
• sword
• shen
• wu
• dao
• jian
• stick
• society

[Pecherin72]

Most Jian today, those which are flexible, are really "sports" jian for exercise. If you look in the museums at those real jian from archeological digs, they're like western type-heavy, non-flexible jian designed to cut through at least leather armour and scale (and the guy underneath).

[255Knights]

Ummm western type swords and the Jian was not heavy...

Western swords:

One-handed swords were about 1.5 to 2 lbs Two-handed Swords were about 2.5 to 3.5 lbs

Claymores were about 4 to 5 lbs. Zweihanders are about 5 lbs to 7 lbs the heaviest.

[hikitsuzuku]

@jadekayak01 except for micronesians haha.

[jadekayak01]

contd

This may be true but only because the teacher is racist and won't teach other peoples.

Check out Bruce Lee's teachings that spanned cultures (and time).

People are people and we all have the capacity to learn.Every culture has exceptional people who can learn more in any given field than others in their culture,it is how they spread it that counts

[jadekayak01]

@asawshwb That's funny as the Chinese call the Chinese Spear "king of all weapons".The Japanese call the Sword "king of weapons" and the rest of the world call the Nuclear bomb "king of all weapons".

The existence of aliens has never been proven so I don't see what they have to do with this conversation.

Maybe you are one of those stupid Nationalistic types(Chinese in this case) that believes that you have "secret knowledge" that can't be learned by others. cont

[jadekayak01]

@SoaShield try learning to use the flexible ones-they still cut just as well(if they are not "wallhangers") if you truly understand the mechanics of cutting.Historical jian came in flexible and stiff varieties.Dao were the same depending on the style and period

[jadekayak01]

@brian777MC Martial arts are not equal,some are better than others.Some are complete systems and some are just slices or segments of a system(i.e. Judo is only a small part of Jujutsu).

You also have people of vastly different skill levels.The good ones make a mediocre style look good and the poor ones make a great style look bad.The best ones make any style look great

[jadekayak01]

@guyver20 This is a perfect explanation of the correct grip

[jadekayak01]

@gianttrials 'Tenouchi' is the instant of tensing up or "focus" during the cut , not the grip used.Different styles used different grips but only a couple of grips are "correct".The correct grip is determined by human anatomy,not by any paticular style.

[jadekayak01]

contd used single handed most of the time and the cuts were great.Maybe you should ask the others to teach you to cut and post a better vid.

[jadekayak01]

to Guro Louelle Liedo-Shihan What are you a "Shihan" at because it certainly isn't Japanese (or any) swordwork.All of your cuts fractured the bamboo at the exit,Dr Christopher Viggiano made more difficult cuts and more cuts than you and only one of them fractured the bamboo on exit(and on a more difficult cut).This is a disgrace for Japanese cutting.The two Chinese guys made good cuts-one with a lighter sword which takes more skill.The Dao is heavier and slower and contd

[theaviribidityofwtr]

@jasperji japanese sword? u mean the chinese tang dynasty long sword which the japanese refer to as the Katana.