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Both the katana (ahem~~ shin gunto for those nitpicking) and saber forms used in the war are boiled down to simple cuts and thrusts compared to their traditional counterparts. Since they had become a weapon of execution, intimidation and authority.

It didn’t during ww2, why would it now?

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A lot of Japanese martial arts forms look that way.

I think flea bombs and light machine guns were more effective.

@@codylontoc8065 it's meant to be a demonstration, like a one two punch thing

@jakewolf079 I know, there's a really good reason why you don't move like you're in a fight doing kata.

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what is kata?

@@baru6891 patterns or forms

@@baru6891 ​ they’re like forms used to demonstrate different moves/techniques within your arsenal. A common misconception is that they are done to mimic actually combat which practitioners know is not true however certain kata do have contexts.

The gentleman in the video appears to be a bit rusty, but I like this pre-war version of the Kata.

It is quite plausible. It is very likely that WW2 saw last use of katana (as gunto) in real combat. Most likely such events were so few that nothing really remarkable was noticed.

The Chinese DaDao was specifically created to fight against the Japanese bayonet.

@@ambulocetusnatans I wonder if there was ever a sword fight between a Japanese and Chinese officer during the war

@@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699 It's possible, but the Japanese were notorious for being reeally good with rifle and bayonet. Their sword was mostly a back-up weapon. Look up "the Marco Polo Bridge incident" for an example of the Da Dao in action.

Probably a US Paratrooper with a M1942 getting into a sword fight with a Japanese officer with a katana in the middle of the jungle.

Or a marine in hos foxhole

War is hell

@@insanitypepper1740 That' not just war, it's what the Japanese mindset was capable of...killing the helpless.

It’s effective for chopping off the heads of helpless civilians after some massacring and raping like they did in Nanking. Probably not that useful elsewhere.

More likely soldiers would be able to remember what to do, just not exactly and pretty like in the forms. For example like kata1, all he needs to remember when it's time to draw out the sword is to just cut upward and chop straight down, what happened after that is irrelevant because swords and bayonet are for suicidal attacks when ammo ran out

those were just exercice training like iaido, but those swords where never meant to fight in the front lines, they were officers swords, they only shoped surrendered enemys as far as i can tell

@@ducontra666999 the officer katanas were more for ranking symbols. There were actually two types of military katanas, the shorter one with a 26 and quarter inch blade and nine and quarter inch handle. This type of katana were used more often in the battlefield by the soilders and some officers. The ranking symbol katana mirrored the traditional katana in terms of length (28 and half inch blade and 10 and half inch handle). The reason for the 2and quarter inch shorter blade was to match the size of the older kyu gunto(the cutlass/katana hybrid) which the soilders and officers were actually trained to use.

@@gamer7916 That's because rifle and bayonet is more important that officer's sword. The fact officers had rudimentary sword training tells that combat use was considered. It is quite plausible that Shin gunto was used in combat as well - not just as murder weapon.

Its called a shin gunto bud

Chiburi was **supposed** to clean off the blood but it has been proven that it really doesn't. They would have most likely had clean off the blood using a cloth most likely. (I am excluding the arm joint Chiburi, as I don't know the name, as I believe that not one would really risk cleaning a sharp blade like that.)

Samurai and Japanese soldiers would always have to carry around a good set of blade-wiping paper and oiled flannel cloths.

@@Hermit_Ronin The oil is to clean the blade if I remember correctly correct?

@@zombieexecutioner2560 The choji oil keeps the blade clean and prevents rust.

Why do you have the rising sun as your profile pic and don’t even know what chiburi is

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nah it just weebs like you

​@@oksobatdunguygyweeb is for anime but this is war crime enjoyer not the same thing

There is two kinds of people. Japanese history/culture enthusiast​and who know the intricacies of it's people and culture and weebs who see Japan in rose tinted glasses and think it's all samurai and "honor"@@teartime592

Gramps what are you doing, gramps why are you pulling out the 1911, grandpa GRANDPA !!!

A gunto has a locking mechanism in order for the blade to not be stolen. It might be that but I'm not sure

@@zombieexecutioner2560 I think its more of a safety mechanism, katanas could fall out their sayas if the mouth wasn’t tight enough, and in war it is more handy for a sword to have a locking mechanism

@@SoldierOfGod778your on the right track the koiguchi often opens up over time and takes a process to fix so they used a knot with their Sageo and it’s basically an evolution of that.

it is whats different is how they wear the sword and doesnt feel warrior way. nice pf

In case you haven’t noticed This is a showcase of a ija officer, not a samurai. They had little training with their Guntōs, and rarely used them.

Edge down when hung from a belt, edge up when tucked into a sash.

With a military sword (gunto) it was suspended on a leather strap or metal chain from the belt with a regain hook also on the belt to lift the sword to a higher position as seen here.

@@christopherfranklin972 sometimes i see they can just rotate it in the same place

Huh?

Huh??