石山流抜刀術 Ishi Yama Ryu RSW Sparring Night

Some clips from a recent kenjutsu sparring night using the RSW sparring katanas.

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• katana
• sparring
• kenjutsu
• chanbara
• battojutsu
• samurai
• sword
• fighting
• battodo
• iaijutsu
• martial
• arts
• tachiuchi
• kumite

[allgXXd]

kendo at 4kyu level?

[IshiYamaRyuSeattle]

@allgXXd

...which would be good considering one of the guys in the video was only 7th kyu at the time of filming.

...and since this was our first time doing any type of sparring.

I'll take your attempt at an insult, as a compliment. thank you.

[allgXXd]

@IshiYamaRyuSeattle

hmm, i thought that it was some promo video, or what ever it was meant to be.

to me theres few things wrong that these guys do, and if you know anything abt sword fighting the you should too.

i just dont understand why but so much effort of making training video from where to analyze yourself.

i wouldnt dare do but my sparring videos on internet.maybe if i get dan , maybe then.

[IshiYamaRyuSeattle]

@allgXXd

Well my original intent was to have multiple sparring videos online as a means of showing our progress over time, and to allow experienced individuals an opportunity to offer constructive criticism. As you note, there are a lot of things wrong, even things that make me cringe a bit when I watch it back, but that is why we train. Though I'm happy to say a lot has improved over the last 2 years since this was filmed.

[allgXXd]

@IshiYamaRyuSeattle

thats cool.

anyway, i wanted to ask you how are the injuries?

to me it seems that only protected area there is your head.if this "katana" is even little bit hard, wouldnt it hurt when struck by medi or high power/speed?

to my amateur eyes it seems that wouldnt kendo men/kote/do help a bit?

wrongly and hard struck kotes would hurt like hell =)

[IshiYamaRyuSeattle]

@allgXXd

You're correct, these do sting quite a bit if struck hard. We've since upgraded our protective gear to include kote since we did experience some hand/finger injuries, and have switched to better helmets.

We're not going for more complete protection since we feel that a bit of pain is an incentive avoid getting hit, and therefore is a disincentive to avoid taking unnecessary risks and look for "real" openings before striking so it emphasizes reading your opponent more.

[IshiYamaRyuSeattle]

It is still a learning process, but we've improved quite a bit. I won't pretend that I've mastered it, because I'm still a student myself.

I'll be sparring with some kendoka(shodan/nidan level) at an event in April, and I'll post some video from that.

[JeongMuKwan]

When contact is made to an unarmored partner, how is it as compared, say to a shinai making contact in an off-armor strike in kendo? Thank you.

[the1lyden]

Poor fella on the left didn't score 1 point....

[Kizenkai]

I don't understand why this is posted as being battojutsu? there is no drawing element? it's just kumitachi... i noticed the comment about the kaiso of ishi yama ryu holding the guiness world record, this was for senbongiri in 2000 which is very good, this is now held by Isao Machii who is the headmaster of Syuushinryuu school of swordsmanship in Japan... it would be nice to see some batto elements bought into this randoori style kumitachi