8 Dan Shinsa - Nito

8 Dan Shinsa at Kyoto on 2nd May 2006

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Kendo
• 8th
• Dan
• Shinsa
• Grading
• Hachidan
• Kyoto
• Nito

[TheNitoWay]

Left hand shoto Right hand daito is the original way of doing nito (like how Musashi did) but in Modern Kendo one can get more advantage by doing the opposite way. Well if you ever played both sei or gyaku nito you'll know the difference...

[Izerath2]

@TheNitoWay actually musashi did it both ways, daito rigth or left handed, if you read "Go rin no sho" you will see. Also most of the drawings/"pictures" of him show him with daito in the right hand. All the katas from the "sei ho mae" are sei nito.

I'm not saying you're wrong, don't take it like that. I agree that in modern kendo/kenjutsu you can use it both ways, most kendo senseis use it gyaku, most kenjutsu senseis use it sei. I'm just "correcting" it a little bit =)

[s3p41r0th]

@pedritoelmalote if he really said that you should hold the shinai in the middle then that is terribly messed up.

[chucknorrispranks]

@TheNitoWay lol, that only makes sense when you're playing games like kendo and you're slapping people with shinai. when you've got heavy shinken in your hands you're gonna need the daito in your dominant hand and really drop into it with your hips if you ever hope to actually cut through anything. Nitojutsu against one person doesn't make that much sense anyway, hold one sword has more leverage. Nito is only strategic if you're fighting a group of opponents at once.

[Yondaime3490]

nah thats just the way most ppl do it in modern kendo.

[supertotoro]

I think you must be at least 46 to be able to take a 8th dan test. But yeah, some have tried for over 20 years with out succeeding.

[clocwirkoj]

I see a lot of comments about age and lack of aggressiveness...I wonder if the lethal quality of the sword is being slowly forgotten amongst all these "competitors." At 1:06 the strike is everything required for perfection and continuance of self preservation.

[Dalarae]

Twice a year even :D!

[twobitmage]

I was under the impression that there has never been a non japanese 8 dan.

[bannappleburger]

maybe this guy is left handed?

[kendokaboy]

lol , kodachi is held at right hand omg and shinai is held at left hand at the end ,, end of tsuka !! thats the right position