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Excellent!! Great spirit!! Not a mechanical / soul-less kata.

はじめまして。 とても綺麗な演技ですね。 居合道を始めて半年です。 参考にさせていただきます。

Beautiful Iai. very nice! 1.Juntou 1st 2.Junto 2nd 3.Tsuigekitou 4.Syatou 5.Shihoutou 1st 6.Shihoutou 2nd 7.Zantotsutou 8.Zentekigyakutou 9.Tatekitou 10.Koutekigyakutou 11.Koutekinukiuchi

esta bueno el video ahora me interesaría saber los nombres de los kata algunos lo se pero otros no

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Very nice, lots of work..

I love watching the different ways kata are preformed from school to school. Ours look nothing like this.

Thank you for a nice demo. It was filmed 6 years ago. I am curious how good you have become now.

you can tell the last kata was the news for him. he did such a great job. really beautiful and impressive to see a kata done at that level of precision.

oh thats one clean kata

Thanks for posting this. There are not a lot of resources online for Eishyn Ryu Batto Waza.

Impossible!

Neither class, style, finesse, or understandings!

Clueless choreograph rituals

What happened at 4:05 did you catch the tip in the saya?

Ahhh... Sweaty feet on a polished surface... That first squeak made my heart jump.

nice perform...could you tell me which ryu is it?

Subscribed! I have always been fascinated by Japan and it's history/culture. I have only recently discovered that there are classes in iaido, kobudo and kenpo offered in my area and I am so excited to begin my lessons. Your video is very captivating to watch, the motions you use portray elegance as well as a deadly nature. Very cool to see! Thank you for posting and I hope this wasn't too forward!

Any chance to get the names of the kata listed? I recognize most.

how to see if it's a ZNIR or a ZNKR taikai? ZNIR loves montsuki :)

Nice Noto

Hi. I would like to shre the following with you. The other day I was watching some of your uploads again and was (again) struck by your iai, especially the performed seme and overal zanshin, I found quite impressive. And it happened to be that it became some sort of inspiritation for me. During my last training session I experimented with what I saw you doing and it kindy hit me there. It felt very calm and almost gentle to do it in this motion.Thank you for your sharing. kind regards, Alexander

Again a very nice performance. I'm impressed by the long seme you manage to keep and then on the last moment to continue. beautiful.

Absolutely! I've just been extremely tardy in uploading. Sorry! I added a video of my 4th place performance at this Spring's Aichi competition just before uploading this video.

Hey ryoma! Thanks for always watching and commenting mate. I am indeed in Aichi-ken, but I'm actually part of the Nagoya dojo in Kakuozan under Kawamura sensei and Nishino sensei.

Thanks very much! I didn't do so well this time, but you can't win 'em all, right? It was good experience for me and it gave me motivation to work harder on various aspects of my iai.

ryoma455 is on the money. This competition was for Aichi prefecture but it falls under the ZNIR 全日本居合道連盟

Yes indeed! (^ ^)

Hi euxneks! Thanks a lot for watching and commenting. Sorry for the delay in answering your question. I am a member of the ZNIR and as far as I know, all of the competitions I have posted videos of thus far also fall within ZNIR even though they cover smaller areas ie. Aichi prefecture and Chubu, or "central Japan".

Thank you very much! The flooring where these competitions are held is quite a bit stickier than the lovely old wood of our dojo so it can be a little taxing at times to perform smooth movements, but it's the same for all competitors so I just focused on my hara and did what I could (^ ^)

Yes! It is indeed the 全日本居合道連盟　ZNIR

Thanks a lot! I went into that competition feeling pretty good and when I performed my kata I was much more relaxed than I had been in previous years.

Thanks! At the time of this competition, I think I had been at it for about four and a half years. Now it's almost six years since I started.

Very smooth noto. Are you part of ZNKR or ZNIR, (or other)? If my questions are too forward, please ignore me :)

Nice and solid. How long have you been practicing?

very nice performance. impressed by your zanshin and iai.

very nice iai. stable footing and swordsmanship!

@MrJabber22 Thanks for watching MrJabber22. I'm sorry but there's no need to tell other people what they may or may not ask, especially when the question is polite and wasn't directed to you. This is a public forum and ryoma455 did nothing wrong by asking about the ZNIR. I'm not sure why you felt the need to address his question to me in such a way, but please refrain from posting silly threats. It doesn't achieve anything and you can't very well slap through your monitor, can you? (^ ^)

@ryoma455 Thank you very much! I'm sorry I have not replied to your question until now. This was the Chubu competition, but I believe it falls under the ZNIR. I will double-check and get back to you ^ ^

@ryoma455 no you may not ask that

Enjoyed watching. Thanx.

@Animaltricks18 The ki-ai (shout) is part of the waza and it always happens at the final cut before notou.

気合の入った良い演武ですね。Good job!

God how I miss this after all these years. I used to study as a student under Sensei Scott Irey, before he moved down to Seattle to teach there, when he was still doing small classes (4-5 students) in Everett & Marysville, WA. And I second the 2 year old comment about the wooden floors - they make me very nervous. I still have a small scar on my thumb from screwing up on a Gohon Me resheath due to slipping. After that, no more live iaito allowed except Sensei.

Whoa.

Enjoyed watching.

Interesting way of doing Shatou. Not sure why you titled this as tachi waza. Batto ho no Bu.

wow that was very impressive for being your fist time cutting tatami, well done!