Iaido 13 katas

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[tmeu]

@jobowtackmasterx very clearly, you have never held a Kobuse class Katana (or higher) before in your life. It is pretty heavy and to slash at that speed with that kind of steadiness is not easy at all. I guess you prefer Hollywood where they use plastic props...

[KinkedouNow]

I am practicing Iaido, and i find it very hard to move like this master! Katana is not light. You guys should show some respect to him!

[AtheistMonster]

@plantolive

You must have a very strange looking scraper brush, a very sharp one at that. I wonder what your neighbors must think.

[plantolive]

@rabbitlugsify I like the multi-stage finish. I imagine doing this is a bit like playing a slow violin piece vs a fast fiddle piece. Small mistakes or lack of skill would be made more obvious with such a small set of highly precise movements.

[plantolive]

@AtheistMonster I'm very impressed with his control. Hell, I was scraping snow and ice off my car and made a few similar moves with a plastic/aluminum scraper brush. It was wagging around like a dog's tail.

[rabbitlugsify]

The reason he resheaths the iaito after each technique is because there is no further reason to keep it exposed as his opponent will be dead (or he will be, but that is irrelevant to a swordsman).

Real sword figths are not like in the movies, they do not last more than a couple of seconds.

@CXaliendude1CX:

The forms you see here are known as "Seitei", "standard", they are supposed to be done at exactly the speed that you see here.

[AtheistMonster]

@plantolive

This is a long, 4lb piece of razor sharp steel. He is not going to be swinging it around like Rurouni Kenshin. A katana forgives no mistake, anyone who is overly theatrical with it has no respect for the blade.

[plantolive]

@GralBank I haven't a shred of doubt that he's doing it exactly as it should be done. I'm just remarking in a cheeky way on how invariable the actions appear, even though there are small differences until the five-slicer. I watched many MA demos in the last few days and the thing that stands out the most is attention to tradition and formality in the beginning and end. So I understand that what happens in the middle is only part of the whole. But usually there's more in the middle.

[GralBank]

@plantolive each kata is showed differently, it begins with the unsheathing of the sword and finishes when he ,,puts it away'' , so its not because he wants to be overly dramatic like western demonstrations, its the proper way to do a demonstration, if you actually saw any martial arts demonstration, besides ,,professional wrestling'' and gang fights, you would know that there's a big deal of theatrics that go with it

[plantolive]

Wait, a five-slicer at 7:58, well he really cut loose there.

[plantolive]

Looks like his favorite thing in life is majestically putting his sword away. Two slices, put sword away. Two slices, put sword away. In fact, If he just had a parade of people handing him sheathes and unsheathed swords perhaps he'd be content just dramatically putting all of those blades back in their sheathes.

[spinedr]

If you are not moving like this guy... you need to practice... probably slow it down. This is why Iaido is not so big in America. It takes patience - which is my main weakness as well.