 Hello, and welcome to Learn the Sword on TGN. My name is Dana Abbott and I will be your guide. This is a weekly show with an episode every Friday. This episode is the beginning of our test cutting series called Tama Shigidi. During this lesson, we're going to go back to the first kata, review that with wood, metal, and then steel. This review kata one using a wood bulkhead. One, hands to your hips. Two, construct the triangle, right foot forward. Three, stepping forward with your left foot, turning the sword counterclockwise to set it up for its right horizontal cut. Five, step forward, executing the cut. Six, set the sword above your head, making sure that your hand is in front of your ear and above your temple for your focal point. Next, bring your hand up to your nose, and from your nose bring it to your handle. From here, step forward and cut. Let's review kata one again, but this time let's use metal so we can introduce again the finer points and again through the numbers. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine. Let's practice kata one at regular speed. After we have reviewed kata with the bulkhead, wood sword, and the yaito, the metal sword, now we're going to use a shinkin, a steel sword, to complete this exercise. A shinkin, also known as a live blade, are the swords that you will be using for test cutting. This is going to be a very simple test cut with one horizontal and one diagonal downward cut. You draw the sword out, you sit in for the pattern, you make the cut, you set up the sword again, and you make the cut again. Let's demonstrate this. I would like to personally thank you for viewing Learn the Sword on TGN-TV.