tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post8100395413417739750..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: FourRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-63741515384239985932009-12-14T05:39:48.420-08:002009-12-14T05:39:48.420-08:00Stuffing your sword back in the scabbard rapidly m...Stuffing your sword back in the scabbard rapidly might keep the shoguns body guards from butchering you for settling an interclan dispute in the shoguns presence. There is always a social dimension to the aftermath of unpleasentness. I remember a Karate bunkai about letting go of a siezed weapon at the end of a form.Ratmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-59361992372430884272009-08-09T15:56:20.551-07:002009-08-09T15:56:20.551-07:00Thanks for the input on traditional training guys....Thanks for the input on traditional training guys. Been on the road so didn't reply right away but don't want you to think it wasn't appreciated.Travishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15353783271100674218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-15171515213239369202009-08-06T00:52:02.787-07:002009-08-06T00:52:02.787-07:00Mr. Delaney, it's been a while! We used to mee...Mr. Delaney, it's been a while! We used to meet, sometimes, at MAP [*]. How do you do?<br /><br />Travis, I might be wrong, but that's probably where the Jo-Ha-Kyu system comes in. The way this expresses itself in Tatsumi --the koryu I practice; I'm going to simplify a lot, be warned-- is that you learn the motions with Jo, you get fluidity with Ha and you achieve the combat mindset with kyu. Moves keep shortening or disappearing the more you go along the line.<br /><br />Applied to sheating, the first level is rather slow, one thing at a time. The second level uses your own hip movement to give sheating some speed at the very beginning --see my previous post [7]--. And the last level completely forgoes a couple of movements --that might be kinda difficult adrenalized-- and still uses the hips.<br /><br />So, at a higher level it does become faster. It does not become that much speedier and most of your gain is that you don't stop and act fluidly and forgo some movements --while keeping the idea--. Ergo, at a higher level you are faster and you have more of a battle-ready kata, but move per move you're not much faster than you originally were (sort of, you have learned what movements are vital and which are simply convenient [+]).<br /><br />And, yes, I agree with Mr. Delaney that some MSR branches play iaido on speed. And that's something, coming from someone on the Sagawa line of iaido --we have a rep for speed--.<br /><br />Keep well. I hope I didn't ramble too much.<br /><br />[*] Martial Arts Planet, Koryu section. I practice Tatsumi and you knew me as Ferran.<br /><br />[+] I _think_ it's in <i>"Violence, blunders and fractured jaws"</i> that <a href="http://nnsd.com/" rel="nofollow">Marc MacYoung</a> talks about "the alien", which is an aikido inspired moves that grabs your head and turns it to the floor. The formal aikido move is much longer and guarantees --as much as it can-- that you'll get the guy down... provided you have the time to do all moves. His version --with some aikido friends-- will work 99% of the time... in a much shorter development. That's kyu level.shugyoshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437800091500543886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-54702568444907987502009-08-05T20:17:22.193-07:002009-08-05T20:17:22.193-07:00I apologize if this is a wee bit boring.
In moder...I apologize if this is a wee bit boring.<br /><br />In modern influenced iai schools like Muso Shinden-ryu & Muso Jikiden Eishin-ryu, fast noto (resheathing) has become quite fashionable. <br /><br />Older schools of classical bujutsu that haven't been influenced by the All Japan Kendo Federation or All Japan Iaido Federation like Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, Takeuchi-ryu, Sosuishi-ryu, etc all resheathe rather slowly. <br /><br />If the job has been done properly, fast resheathing is not a necessity.<br /><br />S. DelaneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-5014712350452392352009-08-05T19:11:51.591-07:002009-08-05T19:11:51.591-07:00Just a question about skill/practicality and class...Just a question about skill/practicality and classical arts/ sheathing a blade. Is it possible that it was considered one of the highest levels of skill because it would have been one of the LAST things a professional, kills-people-with-a-sword, swordsman would develop? Ergo, someone who was sinning fights and displaying this ability would have been a high level practioner. (versus people who were losing but could sheath well and would have been show-offs)<br /><br />I don't know that much about classical practice but like to look at ideas about what training does and how it gets there. The above isn't meant as a challenge or slight to anybody's views on training, it's just an idea and I'm legitimatly asking those who might know more.Travishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15353783271100674218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-752390592694678022009-08-05T09:37:52.987-07:002009-08-05T09:37:52.987-07:00A slight point on '1)':
The way I've ...A slight point on '1)':<br /><br />The way I've been taught, you don't sheathe quickly. You do quickly the first, say, third of it because that's the point you're most vulnerable. Once you're past it, you can use standard unsheathing [*], but at the very beginning of sheathing, you're vulnerable, so you try to shorten than moment.<br /><br />Keep well.<br /><br /><br />[*]: since you've trained classically: once you have your kissaki sheathed you get the advantages of sayabiki should you have to cut again.shugyoshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437800091500543886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-74915328226472136572009-08-05T09:29:34.277-07:002009-08-05T09:29:34.277-07:00Nope. The *ping* is me showing my increased intere...Nope. The *ping* is me showing my increased interest in a post.<br /><br />I tend to lurk and not post things of import, but I wanted to give some form of feedback to you. So, I attempted pinging. I can alter my response if you would prefer...<br /><br />I realize that anything I get from you is wonderful, bonus material. I have no right to expect anything outside of the book I have purchased. I am grateful that you are willing to share some of your thoughts and life with me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17842123561228608863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-83203452891422077752009-08-05T09:20:03.912-07:002009-08-05T09:20:03.912-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17842123561228608863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-58610402277188062182009-08-04T21:42:46.676-07:002009-08-04T21:42:46.676-07:00For the record, I'm not actually hard to find....For the record, I'm not actually hard to find. If anyone needs to contact me privately-<br />rory@easystreet.net<br /><br />Vaughn- is 'ping' a reminder about the e-mail? I haven't forgotten, but I might be embarrassed by the utter lack of depth in what I have to add.Roryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-48774681420764091502009-08-04T20:39:14.709-07:002009-08-04T20:39:14.709-07:00*ping**ping*Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17842123561228608863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-25158138454786848812009-08-04T10:15:16.758-07:002009-08-04T10:15:16.758-07:00Rory,
Sorry to contact you this way, I can't ...Rory,<br /><br />Sorry to contact you this way, I can't find an email for you. I am trying to work within my company (BAE Systems...for full disclosure) about developing training for Soldiers. What I'm concerned about is some of the training issues that you have wrote about in this blog. Mainly, how do we teach them to be violence, without mistakenly making them less effective than an untrained individual when the $hit hits the fan...<br /><br />I'm also concerned about training aspects of video game training which are less tangible...mainly how do we train violence without doing any unnecessary harm to the human underneath.<br /><br />I'd like to talk to you as far as guidance or even as far as business opportunity if it suites you. <br /><br />Once again, in full disclosure...right now, the specific training venture I'm working on is mostly a plan in my head, as I attempt to work the levers of my organization and the government to see if my goals are worthwhile.Bean Delphikihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04012617862879353204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-77980712868479725482009-08-04T09:03:23.365-07:002009-08-04T09:03:23.365-07:00I could go on about how correct you are but I'...I could go on about how correct you are but I'll just go with; Amen.Sacred Ground At St. John'shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10609650209608823662noreply@blogger.com