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図々しいなぁ〜

His form is correct and nice.

@@ANT18621 Thank You🙇

コメントありがとう！ 貴方の日本語は、ほぼ日本人の様に上手ですが、常識的な武道家としての挨拶では有りません。 是非に自賛する貴方の居合を、自身にて世界に広めてみてはどうですか？

NY Kendo Club - Kataoka Sensei.

@@IaidoRoninontheRoof Thank you for the information 🙏

What you are seeing in the thumbnail still shot is shown in the video - at 0:25 through 1:12 minutes. The actual cut(s), which are straight ahead and from jōdan position, come directly after that - from 1:20 through 3:27 minutes.

MIGI means "right" HIDARI means "left" MAE or SHOMEN means "front" USHIRO means "back" We really should add those words to our Vocabulary Section at the end of our videos. Oh well, next time, we promise...

Thank you for this interesting question. If by “versions” you mean Ryu (school), there are quite a few. Some are more popular than others, of course. There are 2 main versions of Eishin Ryu Mine is Musō Jikiden Eishin Ryu; another very popular version is Shinden Eishin Ryu. Other well-known ryu are: Musō Shinden Shigeinobu Ryu, Tamiya Ryu, Mugai Ryu, Suiō Ryu, Shinkage Ryu, Shindō Munen Ryu and many more. Each has it’s own interesting history, and many are quite old..

Thank you for this question; I understand what you’re saying; when I started learning this waza set, it was confusing for me, too. • Shōmen (front) - I’m facing the audience/watchers/adversary directly, head-on… • Migi (right) - I’m now starting off facing the RIGHT side of the “stage” (or my adversary). I must now turn left to attack. • Hidari (left) - Now I’m seated facing the LEFT side of the “stage”. Of course, to face my adversary I must now turn to my right… I hope this helps…

Thank you! Lisa and I are so glad you enjoy and learn something from our videos.

Sorry it has taken so long to answer. Thanks for your interest as a fellow iai practitioner. Please let us know and post a link if you should upload any of your videos. I enjoy seeing and analyzing the differences too, and I don’t feel that any iai moves/positions are carved in stone. In iai, as in dancing, I feel that variations are always interesting.

Katajiknai!

毎度観て頂き、有り難う御座います。居合シリーズビデオをアップから既に3年？経ち、知らず間に小皺が増えているのでしょう。（笑）

Thank you so much for your thoughtful critique! Are you referring to my iai, dōgi, video editing, music, my lovely wife's narration, translation or Brooklyn accent, or possibly the roof itself? Do you have a video available where you show us all how these waza are done to your specifications? Note: If you have a sensei, please ask him/her about the importance of aisatsu (挨拶)and reigi (礼儀). Frankly, your brevity speaks badly of your sensei. Gobure itashimashita (御無礼致しました)

@@IaidoRoninontheRoof I meant the iai, but since you mentioned it, the dogi as well. My sensei has no problem with telling the truth very straightforwardly, and neither do I. P.S. Ronin just means unemployed.

​@@Theorof I'm still patiently waiting for a view of your prowess and the Iai ryu that you're currently practicing. If your Iai sensei is actually Japanese, I'm still surprised that he didn't explain the importance of introductions and mutual respect - an important part of the philosophy of budō. For someone who has no problem telling the truth as you see it, you seem to be very shy at identifying your ryuha, dojo, the sensei that you trained with or showing us a demonstration of your prowess. I do not apologize for my well-worn dogi - I spend many hours at practice, and although I do own a formal hakama, etc., I see no need of wearing it on my roof; if that disappoints you, so be it. Since I am a native Japanese citizen who was raised in Chiba, Japan, I have no need of your translation services; a ronin is actually an unemployed samurai. I don't feel that it's necessary to submit proof of my bloodline and I'm not really interested in yours.

@@IaidoRoninontheRoof Good for you. I have no intention of attempting to be a public example of iai. If you want to see good examples, google it. There are plenty available. You put your video out to become an example, and you must accept the result of it. Your cuts are weak and lack sharpness. You look like you are waving the sword around with no purpose. I see no seme and little display of zanshin. Furthermore, I am not providing a translation, but pointing out that since there are no samurai since 1871, you are not a samurai and thus you are just calling yourself unemployed. Regardless of where you come from or your lineage, if you are willing to put a video out of iai, it better be a good example, because someone who doesn't know any better might replicate it. Thus you harm the art.

@@Theorof You are one of wisenheimer. There was a Satsuma Rebellion 0n 1877.What is samurai for your understanding?You are just criticizng someone"s video for making fan of its.

オリンピック代表体操選手が鉄棒で大車輪数回にて回転を上げてのフィニッシュへ、高く体を空中に自ら放り投げては現代ではウルトラC以上の技にて着地します。 弁慶の仁王立ちじゃ〜あるまいし、両足の底をピタリと床に付けてのフィニッシュはオリンピック選手は絶対にしません。必ず足の爪先から床に触れ全体重とスピードにて掛かるショックを和らげる為に、膝と爪先が大きくスプリングの役目を働かせて着地を成功させています。 この意味が貴殿には分かりますか？ 体操選手が鉄棒でのフィニシュにて両足の底をピタリと床に着ける着地だと、膝や腰の骨が再起不能となる大怪我をします。 私は小学5年生にて、2年後の体操教科書の写真に載っていた模範演技者で、中学を卒業するまでの五年間、朝礼台にて毎回全校生徒へのラジオ体操の模範をしていました。今では使われていないでしょうが、市への市民体操も小学5年生にて構成しました。芝浜にて月面宙返りを助走なしで、その場で飛び上っては完成させていた中三時代。 私が体操での模範演技では、自身の技量ではなく皆んなが出来るようにと、習う人達へ怪我が無い様にと、常に頭で考えていました。 両足の底をピタリと床に付けてのフィニッシュは、最悪ですよ。 着地に多少ブレても良いのです、それは膝に掛かる余分な力を逃しているのですから！ 両足の底を床に着ければ安定度や見てくれは良いが、最速スピードでの振りと刀の重さでの負担が、全て膝に来てしまうのです。 もしも貴方が指導者であるのでしたら、それを勧めていてはお弟子さんの膝を壊す行いです。 まして、両足の底を床に付けたままでは、相手には刀は当たりませんよ！ その辺は実際の稽古や試合にて相手を瞬時に打っている素晴らしい剣道家さんに、正しい足捌きを習うと良いでしょう。 私の習ったのは古流居合の直伝長谷川英信流居合ですが、古流では剣道連盟所属の居合道の様な段位は存在していません。 流祖英信さんは二つの流派から学び、自身の業として構成したのです。 いやば、己に自信が有れば誰でもが、自身の流派を誰に問う事もせずに名乗れます。これこそが名のある日本の剣士達の歴史です。 高湿度７５度Fの曇り空での今日の私の朝練での内容ですが、いつもの様にラジオ体操１、２と、私が構成した床柔軟運動の数々、特に年寄り向けの腰への負担を助ける為の、何種かの腰回転運動等含め25〜３０分。 居合への準備運動とし竹刀を使用した手首や肩への１０種の柔軟運動10分、竹刀にての剣道素振りと打ち込み（面打ち１００本、左右面での前進後進１００本、左右面受け前進後進１００本、片手面打ち１００本、小手打ち１００本、諸手突き１００本、片手突き１００本、左右胴打ち１００本、小手擦り上げ面１００本、左右擦り上げ面１００本、面引き面５０本、体移動左右面５０本、左上段面１００本、早素振り５０本） 朝練の締めに、気分の良い時には居合刀での素振りを千本してます。 今日は生徒さん用の剣道素振りと打ち込みの解説用ビデオ撮りで、時間が掛り、住人が上がって来る時間なので仕方なく二百本で終了！

At 1:09, I'm setting up the scene. "Jiro", my imaginary opponent, is sitting across from me, so the whole waza is done when we're both sitting or semi-sitting. See 5:56 for poor Jiro's point of view. It would get him about mid-section. (Lisa is just a bit sympathetic...)😔

Thank you! Lisa likes that waza too, with that tricky little foot move...

かたじけない!　Thank You for watching!

Thank you for your interest. You say that you are a ZNKR-iai member; Isn’t using a polite greeting to another iai-ka still the first thing you are taught? 貴方の所属されているZNKR居合部門では、武道を学ぶ者として一番大切な挨拶を学びませんでしたか？ Also, if you ridicule someone, you should always first reveal your dojo and rank. I have studied Musō Jikiden Hasegawa Eishin Ryū for 12 years. Please look up Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iaidō, and you’ll find that there is no Sōdome Waza, so on what are you basing your expert opinion? If you have created a video showing the ZNKR version of the Sōdome waza (easily done with a smart phone) please do us the favor of posting it here so that we may compare.

Hocker sama, thank you for your comment. You’re correctly referring to modern iai, which doesn’t use jumping or taking both feet off the ground. Neither you nor I know the technique that was used by the founder of Eishin Ryū back in the Sengoku jidai. According to what I’ve been told, when breeching a wall, they were racing each other to be the first man up, who would shout ippon yari! Bearing in mind that the attackers were heavily armored, just stepping and striking wouldn’t generate much momentum behind the strike. Ideally you would strike as the attacker is moving up. But that was about 500 years ago, and I’m only 67 years old. I do lots of suburi every day to keep agile and because I want to connect with the original form of Iai, when learning could be a matter of life and death. The point of this waza is to win. Craig Hocker様、コメント有り難う御座います。 貴方様は現代的な居合では、足を跳ねっての惣留の業は、有り得ないとの御指摘で、一般的にはその通りでしょう。 しかし、流祖長谷川英信の居合は戦国時代での合戦続きの中にて、生まれて来たと言えるでしょう。生死の境目にて編み出された業と、現代での一般的な古流居合と呼ばれている業とは本質的に異なります。 何故なら、貴方様は惣留業がどんな状況下を想定して行われるかを、ご存知ない様に思われるからです。 戦国時代の城攻めでは、敵の城壁を味方の武士達と競いながら一番早く登り上がり敵陣へと果敢に入った勇者が槍を掲げ『我こそ○○の家臣〇〇で御座り候』と、この合戦での一本槍を名乗ります。 この瞬間には城の守備方も城を落とそうとする攻撃方の両者の武士は、勇敢な一本槍の名乗りの見事さに、闘いを止め一瞬両軍が静まります。 これは戦っている双方の武士には誉があり、敵であっても互いに武士として認め合うからです。これに似た事はヨーロッパでの戦国時代でも有ったと聞きます。 それだけに、一本槍を目指す強者が我が我がと這い上がり登って来ては、今や城壁に上げろうとする敵の頭を、瞬間にてカウンター的に斬り落とすのです。 これこそが惣留の業の意です。 両足の底をピタリ床に着けていては足腰肩のバネも効かず、スローな動きの抜刀から右片手の手首だけの振りでは、勇敢で強者の鎧武士には全く通用しません。 剣道での足捌きでないかとの貴方様から書き込まれましたが、私のとは違います。素晴らしい剣道家さんの達人の一瞬の速さの足捌きには驚かされますよ。居合しかしていない人には剣道もお勧めです。 この業での足捌きは私のオリジナルですが、流祖英信さんも同じ様にされていたのではと思います。 何故本来の英信流居合は変わって来てしまったのでしょうか、国内での戦が長く無くなっただけでなく、流祖がして来た修行を引き継いで来た人達が、いつの間にか時代と共に、修行をしなく成っただけです。 では、Craig Hocker様に御質問ですが、貴方様は古流剣術、古流居合の基本稽古で有る、素振りを年間で何本くらいして来られましたか？ 私は６７歳に最近成ったばかりの爺いですが、コロナ禍からの道場閉鎖にて、百本から始め徐々に五百本、千本、三千本、五千本と無理をせずに増やし行き、強風凍える零下ー２０度Cのルーフにても百本、今年の元旦日の出と共に始めた居合刀素振りは、一振り間1.2～1.3秒にて、３時間５分余りをノンストップにて８千本越えを数えます。 月夜での素振りでは、振り下ろす刀の峰に乗っていたお月様が、刀が水平位置にくると、あの仁王様の剣から飛び散り燃え上がる炎の様に、居合刀の両側から炎の様に舞上がり美しいです。とても心洗われます！ これが古流を照す私の基本稽古です。 惣留業の重要点は、城壁の下から隙あれば手槍で突いてくる強者の攻撃に備え、勝つ事です！

De nada! It is my pleasure.

切り斬り舞様、コメントありがとう御座います。 納刀中に斬り伏せた筈の相手が息を吹き返す事や、相手が一人だけで無い闘いを想定していれば、納刀中にても再度瞬時に抜刀できる心構えでないとと、私なりに居合を理解しています。

Thank You for that thought! Not now, no money and right now renting space is hard to find and expensive. But, I would like to some day, if the opportunity presents itself...

There is big renovated dojo in Brooklyn

@@JohnKaplan-d7w I haven’t been there, but have seen it on facebook. It looks very large and beautiful. Kataoka sensei, my former iai teacher holds kendo classes there once a week; he may still teach iai. His group is the NYC Kendo Club. You can tell him hello from me (Yasuda) too, if you like...

I was new to iaido until I started MSR but more books than not had been in regards to MJER, NYC Kendo club stopped teaching MJER and KenZen does not like me b/c I was studying MSR, maybe? I could meet you with a bokken anywhere if you wouldn’t mind teaching MJER . I have seen a few lessons from different schools of MJER but your lessons from the roof are advanced and skillful.

@@JohnKaplan-d7w When I started at NYCKC MJER was what they were teaching, I believe that MSR is very close to MJER, just split off at some time for some reason. (We Japanese love to quibble). As a ronin I have no loyalties ;-) Unless you have an idea, or another place in mind, the only place I have right now is our roof. (Midtown East Side) If you like, you could come up to do renshu with me, but it would have to be early morning, before the other tenants start sunbathing, etc.

Thank you so much! Yes, if all goes well, we will be eventually doing all the waza Kata needs 2 people, and Lisa is my narrator-translator-director-producer, but has never practiced Iaidō (which may be good for me - she's a hot-tempered Brooklyn native). Kata can be dangerous, and needs 2 people with the same skill level. Maybe if I find someone who is trust-worthy and could work with me...

Thank YOU for the tip! We will figure out a way to make viewing the footwork easier; maybe a shorter hakama - we can cut an old "boro-boro hakama down - that's a promise! - And when we get something done, we'll add a note to this message.

Thank You! We keep trying to improve...

Dō Itashimashite!

Thank you for Watching!

Thank YOU Sasha-san! We'll be adding more vocabulary translations at the end of detail videos, so you can get a better idea of the Japanese 武士道 (bushido) mind! (as in Video 22...)

@@IaidoRoninontheRoof thx you Oss

Katajikenai! My hair is my wife's idea (she's jealous, too). It also saves a lot of barber shop $$.😁

@@IaidoRoninontheRoof that's awesome!

@@MickGardner-vc4us 😀!

🙂✌🏼

Thank You! I was lucky in that MJER was what the NY Kendo Club teaches. Having later seen other styles, I still feel that MJER is the best!

@@IaidoRoninontheRoof Kudos to you for continuing your training through the pandemic. MJER brings a peaceful precision to daily life that is rarely found in any other activity.

@@BRLaue Yes; I especially like to practice outdoors like this, feel the wind against my iaitō and watch the sun come up on a cold winter day.

Musojikiden Hasegawa Eishinryu- Studied at NYC Kendo Club.

Thank you; it's one of our favorites, too, even though I think Lisa shows a little too much sympathy for Jiro, that yarō! 🙂

Hi, Jose san! Yes, I had them turned off because my wife/manager is a bit paranoid... she worries about various dark-net bad guys, etc. 👹 Also, she didn't really know what embedding was; we researched it and now we understand. Thank You! We haven't cleared all the videos yet, but we should be done by tomorrow AM. When you're done, we'd love to see your reference site if possible... 🎎

I studied with Kataoka Sensei of the NYC Kendo Club for about 8 years.

Thanks, Jose-san! Yes, it is. Mae - (前) means "front" or "before". Shōmen - (正面) means front, but is the more formal term.

If you refer to "Mae" in Seitei-Iai, then you mean a different form even though there are similarities.

@@floydjamal Seitei-iai is a newer form of iaidō picked up from older Iai schools - Eishin Ryū, Mugai Ryū, etc. Depending on the group, mae could be the same as shōmen or slightly changed.

I like Tozando

We don't know more than any other iai practitioner, but Lisa did some googling and came across the Seido Shop, a France-based budo equipment business. They have an unfortunate story to tell that rings very true, a good attitude, and lots of good information on Iaitō as well. They don't have many iaitō left, but what they have is in a decent price range. (I hope youtube allows this comment...)

You're very welcome - And thanks for your inspiration!

Thank you so much! The location is ideal! Free, lots of sword room, and not a ninja in sight.

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you for subscribing1 Kataoka sensei was my teacher too, pre-corona, for about 8 years; he is a good teacher, and very skilled! We don’t have great equipment yet, so are a little slow to publish, but we try to do new videos at least once a month. I feel that seeing our Eishin Ryu waza from all sides in video form may help students learn the finer moves, footwork, etc. If you have any more questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to write.

@@IaidoRoninontheRoof all. This is great! I saw all the fine details you performed. All the same things sensei taught me. I just met up with Kataoka sensei. He came to my home. I am starting my first basic beginner class for some students. I’m a professional photographer if I can ever do anything for you. Thank you, sensei, and will continue to support your channel.

@@budokarate6212 🙇‍♂Thank you, Budo Karate-san! What we need most is subscribers and viewers, so you are a great help now. Also, any requests or suggestions would be very welcome!

Would you consider doing a Iaido beginner workshop with my students. My email contact is on my website. www.OldSchoolStreetFitness.com. Thank you 🙏

Katajikenai! 🙇‍♂

I'm glad I could help!

Sorry, your question has taken so long to answer; I overlooked it first time around. 🙇‍♂ I feel that being totally obsessed with form (and drama) is a Japanese thing, perhaps to the point of obsession/compulsion. Seppuku, and to a lesser extent Kabuki, th-cam.com/video/gu_sbHvBRQM/w-d-xo.html , and samurai films, too, are perhaps the most dramatic example of this. (We are an extreme drama-loving society.) In addition, different Iai schools will often have bitter arguments over slightly different katana positioning, etc. Lisa STILL feels that I’m totally O/C - because, among other things, I insist, no matter what the weather is like, on changing into my dogi and zipping upstairs for practice every day just as the sun rises. However, I do think that Iai is based on a very practical skill; the art of staying alive - and that’s what it was up until the time it was banned, post WWII. My great grandfather, who I never met, was hitokaro（筆頭家老) of a small castle in Hamamatsu, so I think that Iai must have been more than form for him, but because iai forms themselves are so graceful and beautiful, Iai seems to have evolved into a kind of performance; and many Iaidoka perform them slowly to showcase the form. A more practical reason for this is that many shisho are in their 70s-80s and have slowed down a bit. I feel that speed, though, is an important part of the Iaido skill set, and yes, I feel the presence of Jiro, my invisible rival (so named by Lisa who is very sympathetic to poor Jiro, which makes me that much more likely to dispose of him). 😈

@@IaidoRoninontheRoof Sweet. Thanks for your answer and explanations. To look at Iai, with what you have mentioned in mind, makes more sense to me now. Saturday 8th October, an old French friend of mine, from our times together at the theatre school back in the days in France, has invited me to see his show in Dublin (spoken in French with English subtitles). I'll use this opportunity to visit the Iai class in the morning somewhere in Dublin city: my very first Iai class. Dublin is too far from my place for me to be a regular at the classes, so this is a great opportunity for me and I hope to learn as much as I can with the local sensei who invited to come. Wish me luck! PEACE.

You can only truly understand where Jiro comes from if you see the videos in sequence; in video 10, Lisa talks about "Opponent 1" and "Opponent 2"; not very interesting. In Japanese, "Ichiro" 一郎 means "First Boy", " Jiro" 二郎 means "Second Boy" and "Saburo" 三郎 means "Third Boy".These names were often given to brothers, and in Sengoku Jidai, the brothers often fought, sometimes to the death. ("Ran", the well-known Kurosawa film is a good example of this.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_(film) So, starting in video 15, for reference we decided to name The Ronin "Ichiro", his chief adversary "Jiro", and the third (if there was one), Saburo. It seems that poor Jiro was always getting chopped up, so Lisa took pity on him and half-sarcastically said "Gomen, Jiro-sa": "Sorry Jiro". (In 50s Japanese films, you'll sometimes catch a samurai saying that just before he does away with an adversary. And a Big THANK YOU for complimenting the "final cut" scene - Lisa was trying her best to make it look like a 50s Samurai flick!

@@IaidoRoninontheRoof of course you've got to be Ichiro! lol :)