thrust with accomanying hand

九本目　添え手突き
kyuhonme: soete tsuki
thrust with accomanying hand

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• iaido
• kata
• samurai
• japan
• katana

[sonofzeal]

rikiboum - look at the range on the attack he's leading into there. In this kata, he's walking beside a wall just to his left (our right), when someone charges him from around a corner. The first strike is the one that stops the guy. When he moves forward for the thrust, they're not squaring off like in fencing, he's moving for the kill and for that you need greater torc, not greater reach.

As to the body, my understanding is the left hand is supposed to be helping there.

[Slapdash1]

The man would be fine. It is kata, and if done, as Trevoke said, without the pause or the 'beat' this would be an effective move. Additionally, the stab is there only to finish the bugger off. The opponent at the moment of the stab is already severely wounded from the cut that makes the first part of the kata.

[Trevoke]

The pause is only for kata purposes. Remove the pause and obtain a highly effective move.

[Alel4131]

I have to continue on what I've stated above. When gripping a katana, proper grip is 100% with the pinkey and ring finger, 50% with the middle finger and the thumb and index finger hold on just enough to keep the sword from falling if you remove the other hands. To sling blood off of a blade you move it fast and stop it suddenly. If you have a slow or gradual stop, then the blood won't fly off. He grips it tightly and can't stop it correctly, that is why the tip wobbles.

[kaifinn]

great fudoshin and sanchin.

[zordracc]

In this kata, the opponent falls of the blade before the shiburi. This is normal form.

[Schwertfechter]

As for the tsuki itself, I'll go ahead and say I'd never use it outside of practicing kata. And you're right about pulling the blade from the stabbed body. The kata seems to assume it will be very easy or the opponent simply falls off it. Of course, what all the iaidoka will say is at least the performance of the kata is correct. In the Koryu, even kata which seem silly are due respect, I suppose.

[Schwertfechter]

The sword wobbles a bit in the yoko-chiburi when you use a proper grip. The fore and middle fingers grip slightly less firmly than the last two fingers, to allow some help in shock absorbtion in combat. Naturally there is no contact here, but in Iai you act as if there will be. Now surely someone can tense the hand to stop wobbling for the sake of appearances, but my point is it is not bad technique to ignore it.

[Alel4131]

I really love these videos. This man is pretty decent with the sword. This video, however I don't like as much. I don't understand the purpose of the low thrust that seems like it is going to the hip bone. Then he doesn't pull it out of his opponents body. To finnish- During his blood shake, chibiri, the tip wobbles with a lack of control over his weapon. I may be in correct, this is just what I saw when I analized it.

[bhoas]

Proton1: There should be this stop up do 2-3 Dan, there is a point with it to, if you have a newbi to test it on, lend them you iaito and let them try to do this kata with flow without any stops. This is as it should be up to a high Dan level, then it is ok do to this kata without any stop. Control is one of the keys in iaido, and the stop is one way to exercise it :)