You know this gentleman is master class the moment you notice his movements are so precise that your body stops doing the sitting leg shake and your mind focuses right away.
I regret you feel that way. True ways of war don't always resemble the flashy, surgical precision found in the movies. Careless execution consisting of raw speed, superfluous movements and visceral screaming are often used to hide the inadequacies of both the practictioner and the practice in which they are engaged. There is measure, power, ceremony and precision in the iaido seen in this video. Shown is the highest example of a utilitarian martial art. It is simple, effective and direct.
Absolutely a treat to watch!!! I have watched this over countless times and I still can't get enough of this!!! Thanks again for posting it in entirety!
Every time I see him it sends shivers down my spine. Every move is flawless, each strike precise with not a centimeter more motion then necessary . I hope to be that good one day.
Impeccable is the only word I can think of about Sato sensei's performance. The suwariwaza on kata 3 is so perfect that I couldn't believed what I just saw. I train in Aikido and we do a lot of suwariwaza as a part of our koryu but I've never seen anyone did or doing it so perfect like Sato sensei.....
Just because you are unable to understand what an incredible amount of skill Iaido takes, does not mean that you have to become disrespectful. You just made a fool out of yourself with that comment. As a Iaidoka, I can only watch in awe and try to learn something from this Sensei. Incredible.
In as few words as I can manage, he's demonstrating sword skill from essentially the least opportune positions (aside from laying down of course) -- seated and with the sword sheathed. This is classical Japanese sword drawing. Iaido is performed slowly in most cases, only because it's most difficult doing so. This requires incredible amounts of fine motor skills. It can be done quickly too and is often demonstrated that way. It's certainly no dance. This is real and downright deadly. :)
Thank you for this. I do not practice iai, but enjoy witnessing unobstructed flow of force/energy in any art - from tai chi to opera. Sato Sensei is clearly a true master. Such balance, such quiet presence that shits/turns/cuts without any tension. Simply amazing.
Beautiful video! Such concentration, you can almost feel the Zanshin coming through the screen. I hope to be this good one day, I’ve still a long way to go before then.
Great interpretation of some MJER Shoden and Chuden sets. After 11 or 12 years of practicing MJER I am just beginning to understand a few slivers of it. I need more, much more practice, and this kind of example is very inspiring. THank you for posting this !
I've been practicing Iaido for 35 years and martial are for 60 and I am embarrassed to say that I cannot remember seeing such force displayed. In the original book Miyamoto Musashi there was a chapter where Musashi went to visit one of the greatest swordsmen of his time and while walking on the stones of the path to the front of the mans house, it is said, that Musashi suddenly felt such a force of presence that Musashi himself nearly jumped off the path--I felt something similar watching Sato Sensei--someone else said it better that I, "...his kiseme is frightening."
@@gregoryburris6374 there is a similar plot in Yoshikawa's novel: Musashi walked down a path near a field where an old monk was plowing. Musashi felt a sudden force of pressure from the monk and he jumped off the path but the monk did nothing other than plowing.
A masterclass. Thanks for sharing this.It will help me with my training. His cutting is outstanding, particularly his kirioroshi. A dead stop at the end and so controlled.....give me about 40 years and I might get close!
There is a presence about this man, even with his sword sheathed, the sheer amount of focus and discipline in his eyes. I am mesmerized by the co-ordination and grace he displays, The perfect arc he makes with his blade, no hesitation just grace and experience...he feels at peace with his form. Its truely stunning.
very nice demonstration , from one who is extremely adept at his art ,one of the nicest and most sincere demonstrations of mjer, i have seen on youtube , thank you very much
He truly invisions the attackers, he turns his head and locates where the opponent would be then he strikes, ferociously, using forms... fantastically well done.
I'm glad you enjoy the video. I posted it in direct response to others that had been posted showing only part of the demonstration. One should recognize that in the Japanese arts, the parts immediately preceding and following the waza demonstration are just as important. Rituals showing respect and gratitude are everything in the Japanese arts. Expensive videos. They're around $120 USD and can be purchased from a place called Rakuten. I've updated the description with a link.
I know what you mean But most taikai in Japan have so much organising in the back ground It’s not meant to be disrespectful Just lots of organising the hachidans It’s a los quieter than the Kyoto Taikai
Große Hochachtung Meister Yosichi Sato, Körper und Geist bilden eine Einheit, volle Konzentration, voller Körpereinsatz. Danke für diese motivierende Vorführung. AnLa - Meister Shotokan und Tai chi /Qi Gong - Germany
I went to my first Iaido class last night, and now have an even higher appreciation for the art form. Its not until you have a katan, or in my case a bokken in your hands, and doing the waza thatl you come to have a true sense of how every move has a purpose. It is truly an art form to be respected...
So that justifies being Supremacist in thinking and promoting cultural supremacism. Yes Japan has some claims but is not the North African or Moorish Sword also Ni To! I respect the origin of Japanese contributions but I am not Japanese so don't try to insult me with supremacist assimilation! If what you are teaching is currently unsound, but you insist that is Iaido you are a cultural supremacist! Note how that slander has not been the direction Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Fo, Karate, Aikido, and countless other martial arts have taken because they realized this fact!
Anyone with slightly better than average coordination can achieve this with enough practice, research and thought. The problem is, most perform miserably right out of the gate, unable to satisfy the primary requirement -- actually showing up to practice.
Correct. Pommel strike. The stomp is fumikomi and is optional. His opponent is sitting immediately to his right and decides to grab the defender's sword by the handle. The small circular motion is him wrenching it away from his opponent's attempt to grab and the strike is to the face of the opponent. The horizontal cut that follows is to the opponent's right arm just below the shoulder, then he's pulled to the floor and subsequently has is lower back cut through by the defender.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have received an introduction and have found a sensei that has accepted me as a student. I've had a few lessons and plan to continue. I figure I have about ten years until I know what I'm doing and another ten to become something of an expert. Can't wait!
I absolutely love it. I wish there are more videos of him. I'm starting to learn the chuden set and this video really helps me when I'm at home and can't ask my sensei right away. His performance is all so pristine and... just amazing! Thank you for posting!
Each 'waza' or form you see here describes a certain scenario whereby the swordsman is attacked. Take the form at 6:45 for example: someone approaches him from behind and attempts to grab the end of his scabbard. The swordsman wrenches the sword from the enemy's hand, turns and impales the hapless enemy in the chest with his sword then proceeds to cut him in two, and finally flings the blood from the sword and re-sheathes.
mikka-love what you said!! agree 1000 percent!!! western should learn from those we constantly criticized. I have experience in visiting Japan and practice several time when I go for my testing and I would say is good to imitate those good habits. as there is a saying: "cleanliness is close to godliness" as intelligent being-as per some- is good to adapt those good manner. even though, some(westerners) will criticize.
Just to add to that. The main thing that iaido is teaching me is how to go "into the zone", regardless of what is happening around you, how to focus immediately on a single moment, at will, and to carry that moment to its conclusion. It a Zen meditation, at the lower levels we must demonstrate our ability to perform 5 minutes of simple focussed tasks, later grades must perform a much more complex task over more time whilst remaining in he zone. Yosoichi Sato-sensei demonstrates this here.
Which is exactly why I posted this video. The ceremony and ettiquette are the essence of the traditional Japanese arts -- all of them. Saho is the shell in which the entire practice is contained; it needs to be performed with as much if not more care than the waza themselves. The other Sato video that was edited to exclude the ettiquette which is wrong in my opinion and I had to correct that since I have the material. This will be the only iaido video on my channel for now, if ever.
It's a yearly gathering of former and current all Japan iaido champions, and it's an invite only event. The best of the best attend this gathering each May or so (if I recall). Hakone is in Kanagawa prefecture in mid-Japan. It's a very formal event, given that it takes place at a Shinto shrine, so the event is prefaced by rituals performed by priests.
very nice, thank you for posting this. Agree he is very precise and has nice dynamism too. I practice MSR so I always find the little technical details where it and MSJR differ to be interesting.
I just watched some sekiguchi "Iaido" and needed to come here, to remind me, what real iaido is. I've watched this presentation countless times and i'm still blown away, everytime i watch it. This is the essence of Iaido. I'd sell my soul to become this good.
Well put...Americans as a whole have accepted mediocrity as the norm. So they make stupid, insulting comments on anything they don't understand. To strive for perfection, though unattainable, is almost unheard of in America anymore. There is a certain satisfaction to be had in the arduous training and pursuit of a Martial Life. Most people will never know this and I actually feel sorry for them. Thank you for shining the light...
Dear-FBJ416, thanks for posting this video. I always watch this video and every time I feel I am seeing it first time. thanks again. I would like to ask you about the whole event video. where could I have it. Arigato Gozaimsu.
Thank you for letting me know. I usually travel at least once a year to Hakone and thought it would be nice if it coincided with a iaido event. It will take some years though before I can count myself to that select group. =) Again, thank you for sharing this video. It is always inspiring to see great iaidoka performing showing that budo is the journey of a life time. Yoroshiku onegai itashimasu.
I'm a formally trained philosopher (logic), network engineer by trade (more logic) and developer / hacker (fuzzy logic), into Muay Thai / MMA (street logic) and iaido (zen). The latter because it shaves off all the BS and gets the job done in the most efficient manner. It's also beautiful.
And it does. I.T. types, scientists, teachers, university students (particularly those with education in maths), and dancers top the list based on my observation.
And by the way, take it six months at a time. The statisics are fairly consistent across dojos in that roughly eighty percent of folks that walk through the doors will quit within six months. Of the remaining two, one might practice for years until they get stymied by the inevitable plateau and quit. At most, ten percent of students will make it to yondan, and even less than that will maintain the discipline to make it to rokudan. Of the remaining, only a fraction make it to hachidan.
Nothing is like what you think. Sensei is anticipating attack from any random direction. It's not stroll in the park. He's also fighting back. Everything is in the mind, since a real sword fight means life or death.
Que impresionante, definitivamente admiro laq cultura asiática. Occidente tiene mucho que aprender de Oriente, y dejar la estupidez de estar invadiendo a otros países sólo por sus recursos. Aprendamos a vivir en armonía con la naturaleza y nosotros mismos.
Dude, this is the real thing. As real as you can get without blood flying. The master's every move is killing in the most efficient form. No joke. No foreplay. One strike one kill. That's all this is about.
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This is called Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu. This particular strain of the school is found in International Kendo Federation dojos, all ultimately subsets of the All Japan Kendo Federation (ZNKR). There are plenty of legitimate iaido dojos in the USA, governed by the All U.S. Kendo Federation (AUSKF). Best advice I could give you to help search a dojo out is to visit the kendo-world·com forums and ask around in the iaido forum.
The same difference that exists between a good piano player and a bad one, or a good dancer and a not so good one. They may both have "good" technique, but technique accounts for a mere tenth of the equation. It's the intangibles that count in practices like these.
I mean just imagine what a horrible day must you have if you actually being forced into situation where all of these movements must be used in order to save your life.
Will there ever be new schools of Iaido and why? How long can classical arts survive? As long as they find interprets? Or as long as artists come in to shake the status-quo? Would that even make sense to try and renew this tradition?
How ridiculous some think its about a show *shakes head* you don't see the subtleties and economy of movement, its designed to actually conserve vital energy in a pitched battle, sword battle rarely last more than a few minutes easily tiring both combatants, subtlety is the name of the game in the ancient samurai simply because your opponent often knew your moves.
Don't bother explaining colors to a blind, or sound of music to a deaf... I don't think this guy is capable of understanding the beauty of this art and will always try to compare it to something cool (in his terms). I am an Aikido practitioner for over 20 years, and have seen a lot of folks of this kind, who tend to slander or make fun of something they won't ever understand. Thanks for posting this video!
4:47 This sequence intrigues me. Am I correct in assuming that there is a pommel strike to the right involved? I say so because he makes the foot stamp I associate with ippon in kendo, which seems an excessive amount of energy for just clearing the blade from the scabbard. I've never seen that before in iaido, I'm wondering if I'm misunderstanding that motion?
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You know this gentleman is master class the moment you notice his movements are so precise that your body stops doing the sitting leg shake and your mind focuses right away.
I regret you feel that way. True ways of war don't always resemble the flashy, surgical precision found in the movies. Careless execution consisting of raw speed, superfluous movements and visceral screaming are often used to hide the inadequacies of both the practictioner and the practice in which they are engaged.
There is measure, power, ceremony and precision in the iaido seen in this video. Shown is the highest example of a utilitarian martial art. It is simple, effective and direct.
Absolutely a treat to watch!!! I have watched this over countless times and I still can't get enough of this!!! Thanks again for posting it in entirety!
To me, this is Iaido in it's purest display, the focus, determination and convincing techniques are overwhelming to me.
Every time I see him it sends shivers down my spine. Every move is flawless, each strike precise with not a centimeter more motion then necessary . I hope to be that good one day.
"than necessary"
His
Impeccable is the only word I can think of about Sato sensei's performance. The suwariwaza on kata 3 is so perfect that I couldn't believed what I just saw. I train in Aikido and we do a lot of suwariwaza as a part of our koryu but I've never seen anyone did or doing it so perfect like Sato sensei.....
Just because you are unable to understand what an incredible amount of skill Iaido takes, does not mean that you have to become disrespectful. You just made a fool out of yourself with that comment.
As a Iaidoka, I can only watch in awe and try to learn something from this Sensei. Incredible.
In as few words as I can manage, he's demonstrating sword skill from essentially the least opportune positions (aside from laying down of course) -- seated and with the sword sheathed. This is classical Japanese sword drawing.
Iaido is performed slowly in most cases, only because it's most difficult doing so. This requires incredible amounts of fine motor skills. It can be done quickly too and is often demonstrated that way. It's certainly no dance. This is real and downright deadly. :)
Firstly: wow. Just: wow.
Secondly: The word "uncut" in the title of a iaido video has a certain kind of delicious irony.
Yes. Defeats the purpose :)
Thank you for this. I do not practice iai, but enjoy witnessing unobstructed flow of force/energy in any art - from tai chi to opera. Sato Sensei is clearly a true master. Such balance, such quiet presence that shits/turns/cuts without any tension. Simply amazing.
Beautiful video! Such concentration, you can almost feel the Zanshin coming through the screen. I hope to be this good one day, I’ve still a long way to go before then.
Great interpretation of some MJER Shoden and Chuden sets. After 11 or 12 years of practicing MJER I am just beginning to understand a few slivers of it. I need more, much more practice, and this kind of example is very inspiring.
THank you for posting this !
Unrivaled demonstration. I'm excited.
I've been practicing Iaido for 35 years and martial are for 60 and I am embarrassed to say that I cannot remember seeing such force displayed. In the original book Miyamoto Musashi there was a chapter where Musashi went to visit one of the greatest swordsmen of his time and while walking on the stones of the path to the front of the mans house, it is said, that Musashi suddenly felt such a force of presence that Musashi himself nearly jumped off the path--I felt something similar watching Sato Sensei--someone else said it better that I, "...his kiseme is frightening."
Book of 5 rings?
@@gregoryburris6374 there is a similar plot in Yoshikawa's novel: Musashi walked down a path near a field where an old monk was plowing. Musashi felt a sudden force of pressure from the monk and he jumped off the path but the monk did nothing other than plowing.
A masterclass. Thanks for sharing this.It will help me with my training. His cutting is outstanding, particularly his kirioroshi. A dead stop at the end and so controlled.....give me about 40 years and I might get close!
Took me twelve years for second black, yeah, forty is not out of the question for mastery.
Surely one of the best displays of iaido ever. This sensei has got to be one if not the best on the planet.
所作の美しさに見蕩れるばかり…。
１０分の動画があっという間でした。
それにしても、四十一っていい名前だなぁ。
There is a presence about this man, even with his sword sheathed, the sheer amount of focus and discipline in his eyes. I am mesmerized by the co-ordination and grace he displays, The perfect arc he makes with his blade, no hesitation just grace and experience...he feels at peace with his form. Its truely stunning.
far you
Mushin. No mind no ego. Fully present.
No words. Respect.
very nice demonstration , from one who is extremely adept at his art ,one of the nicest and most sincere demonstrations of mjer, i have seen on youtube , thank you very much
He truly invisions the attackers, he turns his head and locates where the opponent would be then he strikes, ferociously, using forms... fantastically well done.
I'm glad you enjoy the video. I posted it in direct response to others that had been posted showing only part of the demonstration. One should recognize that in the Japanese arts, the parts immediately preceding and following the waza demonstration are just as important. Rituals showing respect and gratitude are everything in the Japanese arts.
Expensive videos. They're around $120 USD and can be purchased from a place called Rakuten. I've updated the description with a link.
I think it is disgraceful and rude for the guys in the suits in the background to be moving around. They should be at attention and show respect.
+thewanger
Maybe they are too exciting :P
Just kidding. I guess they are the staff members not iaido practicer
I know what you mean
But most taikai in Japan have so much organising in the back ground
It’s not meant to be disrespectful
Just lots of organising the hachidans
It’s a los quieter than the Kyoto Taikai
They are outside the doors though.
Große Hochachtung Meister Yosichi Sato, Körper und Geist bilden eine Einheit, volle Konzentration, voller Körpereinsatz.
Danke für diese motivierende Vorführung.
AnLa - Meister Shotokan und Tai chi /Qi Gong - Germany
I went to my first Iaido class last night, and now have an even higher appreciation for the art form. Its not until you have a katan, or in my case a bokken in your hands, and doing the waza thatl you come to have a true sense of how every move has a purpose. It is truly an art form to be respected...
So...did you stick with iaido?
show respect. Japan is the Mecca of the art of the samurai sword. This is not intended to be flashy.
So that justifies being Supremacist in thinking and promoting cultural supremacism. Yes Japan has some claims but is not the North African or Moorish Sword also Ni To! I respect the origin of Japanese contributions but I am not Japanese so don't try to insult me with supremacist assimilation! If what you are teaching is currently unsound, but you insist that is Iaido you are a cultural supremacist! Note how that slander has not been the direction Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Fo, Karate, Aikido, and countless other martial arts have taken because they realized this fact!
Beautifully done! How wonderful it would be to study under a master like he is in Japan one day!
Staggering. Absolutely staggering. The precision. The concentration. The focus. Sublime. Rei.
Anyone with slightly better than average coordination can achieve this with enough practice, research and thought. The problem is, most perform miserably right out of the gate, unable to satisfy the primary requirement -- actually showing up to practice.
Correct. Pommel strike. The stomp is fumikomi and is optional. His opponent is sitting immediately to his right and decides to grab the defender's sword by the handle. The small circular motion is him wrenching it away from his opponent's attempt to grab and the strike is to the face of the opponent.
The horizontal cut that follows is to the opponent's right arm just below the shoulder, then he's pulled to the floor and subsequently has is lower back cut through by the defender.
@MrPW2009
The okuden wasn't included in the material I have, so I'm afraid not. Would have been cool to see though.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have received an introduction and have found a sensei that has accepted me as a student. I've had a few lessons and plan to continue. I figure I have about ten years until I know what I'm doing and another ten to become something of an expert. Can't wait!
BEST IAIDO VIDEO IN ALL THE WEB. THANKS FOR POSTING IT FBJ416!!
One needs at least ten years in a good iaido dojo to begin to have glimpses of what makes performances like the one in this video special.
What an honor to witness your supreme skill, ... magnificent!
One of the best if not the best on the planet
I absolutely love it. I wish there are more videos of him. I'm starting to learn the chuden set and this video really helps me when I'm at home and can't ask my sensei right away. His performance is all so pristine and... just amazing! Thank you for posting!
Each 'waza' or form you see here describes a certain scenario whereby the swordsman is attacked. Take the form at 6:45 for example: someone approaches him from behind and attempts to grab the end of his scabbard. The swordsman wrenches the sword from the enemy's hand, turns and impales the hapless enemy in the chest with his sword then proceeds to cut him in two, and finally flings the blood from the sword and re-sheathes.
Great Master, great moment and art . Thanks.
It's so fascinating to watch other traditions perform their routines. So much to absorb, figure out, try to understand...
6:18 - 7:10 Elegant. Beautiful. Sublime.
You’ve got the essence....
I picture Sato sensei every time I do tsukikage. his kiseme is frightening
Thank you for the explaination! This is certainly makes a lot more sense now.
Thank you for spelling that out. I kinda thought that was the case, but it's good to have it pointed out.
This was beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Many thanks for uploading! Tate Hiza Nobu done so effortlessly.
Pure zanshin indeed...
Very well-executed. Precise and focused.
Yosoichi Sato san es un gran maestro de Iaido, nada sobra, nada falta, limpio puro, menos siempre es mas.
mikka-love what you said!! agree 1000 percent!!! western should learn from those we constantly criticized. I have experience in visiting Japan and practice several time when I go for my testing and I would say is good to imitate those good habits.
as there is a saying: "cleanliness is close to godliness" as intelligent being-as per some- is good to adapt those good manner. even though, some(westerners) will criticize.
Sato Sensei was recently awarded Hanshi
Somehow I missed this message, but that's awesome! Congrats to him and thanks for sharing the news!
Just to add to that. The main thing that iaido is teaching me is how to go "into the zone", regardless of what is happening around you, how to focus immediately on a single moment, at will, and to carry that moment to its conclusion. It a Zen meditation, at the lower levels we must demonstrate our ability to perform 5 minutes of simple focussed tasks, later grades must perform a much more complex task over more time whilst remaining in he zone.
Yosoichi Sato-sensei demonstrates this here.
Thanks for uploading this!
Wonderful technique! No flashy costumes. No thumping music. No throwing plastic weapons in the air like batons. Just pure zanshin.
it took a while, but now i got it... nice demo ty
Which is exactly why I posted this video. The ceremony and ettiquette are the essence of the traditional Japanese arts -- all of them. Saho is the shell in which the entire practice is contained; it needs to be performed with as much if not more care than the waza themselves.
The other Sato video that was edited to exclude the ettiquette which is wrong in my opinion and I had to correct that since I have the material. This will be the only iaido video on my channel for now, if ever.
It's a yearly gathering of former and current all Japan iaido champions, and it's an invite only event. The best of the best attend this gathering each May or so (if I recall). Hakone is in Kanagawa prefecture in mid-Japan. It's a very formal event, given that it takes place at a Shinto shrine, so the event is prefaced by rituals performed by priests.
Yes! I commented it a few minutus ago, but I saw it right after this video. Thanks again!! Keep posting! My best regards! :)
@KUMASANanimation
It needed to be done. I believe true iaido doesn't merely begin and end at torei, so I thought I'd post the whole video.
I cannot watch this enough times. Magnificent display, IMO.
very nice, thank you for posting this. Agree he is very precise and has nice dynamism too. I practice MSR so I always find the little technical details where it and MSJR differ to be interesting.
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Yeah, no problem. Did you see the other one I uploaded today?
one of the most beautiful performance seen on the tube.
I just watched some sekiguchi "Iaido" and needed to come here, to remind me, what real iaido is.
I've watched this presentation countless times and i'm still blown away, everytime i watch it.
This is the essence of Iaido.
I'd sell my soul to become this good.
Aim high and practice hard. You can do it.
Well put...Americans as a whole have accepted mediocrity as the norm.
So they make stupid, insulting comments on anything they don't understand.
To strive for perfection, though unattainable, is almost unheard of in America anymore.
There is a certain satisfaction to be had in the arduous training and pursuit of a Martial Life. Most people will never know this and I actually feel sorry for them.
Thank you for shining the light...
Dear-FBJ416, thanks for posting this video. I always watch this video and every time I feel I am seeing it first time. thanks again.
I would like to ask you about the whole event video. where could I have it.
Arigato Gozaimsu.
He's an 8th dan? Impressive, explains the smoothness of his katas. Thank you. :)
8th dan hanshi, which makes for at least 40 years experience.
Thank you for letting me know. I usually travel at least once a year to Hakone and thought it would be nice if it coincided with a iaido event. It will take some years though before I can count myself to that select group. =)
Again, thank you for sharing this video. It is always inspiring to see great iaidoka performing showing that budo is the journey of a life time. Yoroshiku onegai itashimasu.
I'm a formally trained philosopher (logic), network engineer by trade (more logic) and developer / hacker (fuzzy logic), into Muay Thai / MMA (street logic) and iaido (zen). The latter because it shaves off all the BS and gets the job done in the most efficient manner.
It's also beautiful.
芯がとおっている．．．
And it does. I.T. types, scientists, teachers, university students (particularly those with education in maths), and dancers top the list based on my observation.
Get thee to a dojo. You've got options in Thailand. Only thing to determine is if those options are close enough to follow up on.
And by the way, take it six months at a time. The statisics are fairly consistent across dojos in that roughly eighty percent of folks that walk through the doors will quit within six months. Of the remaining two, one might practice for years until they get stymied by the inevitable plateau and quit.
At most, ten percent of students will make it to yondan, and even less than that will maintain the discipline to make it to rokudan. Of the remaining, only a fraction make it to hachidan.
Nothing is like what you think. Sensei is anticipating attack from any random direction. It's not stroll in the park. He's also fighting back. Everything is in the mind, since a real sword fight means life or death.
Of course ... I already am a Kobudo student .. and our Hanshi is very skilled with Iado ... Thanks for your reply .
The intensity of his stare alone is enough to intimidate any rival opponent...and to the lesser, best he find the nearest exit and flee.
Thank you very much for sharing this!
watching this was a meditative experience for me
Exquisite. I am in awe.
He is pretty amazing
Que impresionante, definitivamente admiro laq cultura asiática. Occidente tiene mucho que aprender de Oriente, y dejar la estupidez de estar invadiendo a otros países sólo por sus recursos. Aprendamos a vivir en armonía con la naturaleza y nosotros mismos.
I am really struggling with the audio feeback or the tachikaze. How or what do I do to create the sound of blade swinging.
Dude, this is the real thing. As real as you can get without blood flying. The master's every move is killing in the most efficient form. No joke. No foreplay. One strike one kill. That's all this is about.
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This is called Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu. This particular strain of the school is found in International Kendo Federation dojos, all ultimately subsets of the All Japan Kendo Federation (ZNKR).
There are plenty of legitimate iaido dojos in the USA, governed by the All U.S. Kendo Federation (AUSKF). Best advice I could give you to help search a dojo out is to visit the kendo-world·com forums and ask around in the iaido forum.
Very Inspiring showing years of total dedication .
Beautiful display of iaido, thanks for sharing.
This seems like a big gathering, what event is this and where in Hakone does it take place?
The same difference that exists between a good piano player and a bad one, or a good dancer and a not so good one. They may both have "good" technique, but technique accounts for a mere tenth of the equation. It's the intangibles that count in practices like these.
If you're willing to share, mind telling us what dojo is it or whether it's part of the AUSKF or some other organization?
Simlpy awe-inspiring, is it possible to take classes under the guidance of Sato sensei?
40 years of life not wasted at all.
Download the video and run it at 2x speed. Just don't re-upload it again without crediting my TH-cam channel. :)
I mean just imagine what a horrible day must you have if you actually being forced into situation where all of these movements must be used in order to save your life.
Will there ever be new schools of Iaido and why? How long can classical arts survive? As long as they find interprets? Or as long as artists come in to shake the status-quo? Would that even make sense to try and renew this tradition?
Pace!
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How ridiculous some think its about a show *shakes head* you don't see the subtleties and economy of movement, its designed to actually conserve vital energy in a pitched battle, sword battle rarely last more than a few minutes easily tiring both combatants, subtlety is the name of the game in the ancient samurai simply because your opponent often knew your moves.
awesome! one of the best I've seen.
Don't bother explaining colors to a blind, or sound of music to a deaf... I don't think this guy is capable of understanding the beauty of this art and will always try to compare it to something cool (in his terms). I am an Aikido practitioner for over 20 years, and have seen a lot of folks of this kind, who tend to slander or make fun of something they won't ever understand. Thanks for posting this video!
4:47 This sequence intrigues me. Am I correct in assuming that there is a pommel strike to the right involved? I say so because he makes the foot stamp I associate with ippon in kendo, which seems an excessive amount of energy for just clearing the blade from the scabbard. I've never seen that before in iaido, I'm wondering if I'm misunderstanding that motion?