Its actually not that hard if u were to pick it up today. Just get a large stick for beginning lol. The only sheath you'd need is ur fingers to create a opening like a sheath and then practicing the movement over and over again. Then once u get a chance to get a wooden katana (preferably a katana cuz of course it wouldn't work on European double edged blades lol) train for 2 hrs doing the same BASIC movement over and over like shown in the first part of the video. Once u know how to spin a blade, then only can u try to sheath by spinning.
Im not a practitioner but I am able to do it lol. Ive always been good with spinning stuff with my hands and even will do it with knifes when im doing dishes and have been doing it for years. My friend was surprised that I copied him after watching him do a spin sheath
@@gustavoadolfovasquezperdom1208 I wouldn't say that lol, but like I said I was already doing a similar motion with knives so it just took putting more strength into it lol
I literally taught myself this move more than a decade ago after watching Vergil in DMC3. I'm glad the technique I ended up at is in fact the proper technique! My boneheaded self used an actual (non-sharpened) metal blade though, so I had to strengthen my fingers, wrist, and forearm before I could reliably spin the sword. I dropped it and/or hit myself with it so many times, but I eventually got it!
that's what I'm curious about. what if about the real sword, with weight more than a toy sword. and isn't dangerous to have a weak grip like that?! if someone hit you while performing that as I believe a part of advance application for this is for defend and a quick slash, does it still has the strength grip to held the sword for that momentum? for example, if enemy hit you while doing it, and you defend with that kind of grip, isn't it dangerous to held the heavy sword like that?! it will only reasonable if some one have a super strength grip with their finger, far stronger than enemy. Or else, it will only turn into playing trick that will cost your own life.
I did injure myself doing this but when I 1st learned this move from a video tutorial the person just said katana, they didn't specified it was for a light weight sword. I did eventually become very profiecient doing it with a regular metal katana.
Great breakdown. I do this with a blade sharpener to practice. My adhd made me start with spinning pencils and pens in class as a young adult to get the muscle memory. From there the weight just changes and the danger. I have a lot of respect for this man. When done in a fluid motion it's like watching a tsunami crash.
A Shiburi is also used as a means to sever the spiritual/energetic chord to your opponent after you finished them. A flashy Shiburi signals that you disrespect your opponent for being disrespectful to you and is something like a violent cutting of the energetic chord. A simple and calm Shiburi signals that your opponent fought and died in an honourful manner. That's what my teacher taught me during Iaido training. The move in this tutorial looks effin cool, though, and we learned this in training, too!
Boy, you just can't get get cooler than Ace. Super friendly and non-assuming type of soul, and yet, when he suits up, he's all business ! ! Great site Ace ! !
Tried this once at my dojo putzing around before the class started at a muso shinden ryu school and my sensei gave me the death glare of disapproval. Feels bad man.
Although i don't train iaido myself (would love to), I've heard that in some places fooling around and trying flashy stuff is seen as a disrespect to the katana you're using, so maybe that'd the case
@@kiracomfortinghishomie8351 It is also used as a means to sever the spiritual/energetic chord to your opponent after you finished them. A flashy Shiburi signals that you disrespect your opponent for being disrespectful to you and is something like a violent cutting of the energetic chord. A simple and calm Shiburi signals that your opponent fought and died in an honourful manner. That's what my teacher taught me during Iaido training.
I checked out other tutorials. none of them worked, although after watching your tutorial, i easily advanced from the beginner-sheathing to spin-sheating in 15 minutes. thank you.
Thank God for explaining in detail for the technique and material of the sword toward the end of the video. I was getting discouraged because I can't afford to loose anymore fingers until I knew I could have practiced with a bamboo sword!
my husband,father-in-law and my father love old school Chambara films! Wakayama Tomisaburo and Shintaro Katsu play in our house on sundays when me and my friends go out. I am glad my husband can enjoy himself on his days off. I started to watch these videos because my husband loves to watch your channel.
Damn, you taught so well that I learned it REALLY fast, man! Thanks! Notice: I don't even own a Katana. I do this in my backyard on the rulers, broken hockey stick with its puck hitting surface, and baseball bat I have at home, and am planning to get a Chinese Jian sword as opposed to a Japanese Katana sword, and yet it still works with rulers, broken hockey sticks without their puck hitting surfaces, and baseball bats.
Huh, so I've been doing this right the entire time?! I have a custom aluminum dull katana with a plastic scabbard that I made to practice with. No one taught me how to spin sheath, so for the longest time, I just instinctively spun it like the way Aoshima demonstrated. I just never thought that it was the actual way to do it. Either way, cool tutorial and definitely a fun trick to learn and do.
Well, as you probably know, there's an old saying that goes: "History repeats itself". It's entirely possible that you re-invented the technique for yourself. If you think about martial-arts techniques, you're bound to get that feeling, like "Someone was smart enough to come up with this." They weren't just smart, but had good instincts and practice.
Lone wolf and cub. Itto Ogami puts his sword away using the spin. I had a hard time learning how to do this until I came across your video. Great demonstration! Ush!
Very impressive! And I really appreciate the backstory at the end. I can turn my katana but I think I use the whole hand when doing it. (Strange how difficult it is to analyze something that is done with pure muscle-memory) :)
667th comments here. I played with knives too much since kindergarden and I am way to used to nunchaku tricks. This is so easy. So easy I could do it right away with both hands.
I've done this with my T10 katana it takes a lot of strength to do this right along with keeping the momentum going, but since my hands are medium small size I had to modify the finger movement slightly sometimes even a millimeter or lower toss in the air to perfect this move. But it can be done with a regular katana
My dude! This was an AWESOME video! Thank you for sharing this with us! I love the samurai and anything I can learn about them and their ways, I'm all ears. You sir, have another subscriber!
Great tutorial but chiburi actually isn't to remove blood from your blade if you preform chiburi with blood on your blade a lot of it will remain. The actual use of chiburi it's to check the Mekugi is broken or not (for those that don't know the Mekugi is the bamboo pin that keeps your blade attached to your handle)
first of all, i don't think you need to explain what a japanese word means to a literal japanese guy. Second, 'chiburi' or 'chiburui' actually quite literally translates to 'shaking off blood'. So while you are correct with the statement that this doesn't completely remove blood from your blade and you still need to wipe it, you are still just being a smartass for the sake of being a smartass. Which is to say, you're being annoying.
It is also used as a means to sever the spiritual/energetic chord to your opponent after you finished them. A flashy Shiburi signals that you disrespect your opponent for being disrespectful to you and is something like a violent cutting of the energetic chord. A simple and calm Shiburi signals that your opponent fought in an honourful manner. That's what my teacher taught me during Iaido training.
Thanks for the hint on wooden katana. I was so stupid learning everything with metal one and sharp. I haven’t actually run into wooden katana when browsing sites offering katanas. I was also fooled by that aluminum foil, that may have been covering katanas in those youtube videos, so I always saw metal looking katana. Of course I started very slowly and then I was accelerating exercises, but it’s really stupid and could have cut myself or worse, lose a finger.
cool stuff and surprisingly easier than it looks. tried it with a bokuto a few times and wasn't too difficult to get the hang of it. now just takes practice to perfect it. very enlightening video
This brings me back to when I used to do Cosplay. I was prepping to do Mitsurugi and was practicing his routine from Soul Calibur 3. He often did the spin and thankfully I had some practice doing some spinning tricks with poles and sticks, but the trick for me was to make pressure on the index and middlefinger to compensate the weight of the blade so I wouldn't lose grip. It's easier with poles or sticks since you can have them even out their balance and your wrist is making minimal effort to control the spin, but not only it's tricky with a sword since all the weight is on one end, it's trickier with a katana due to the curved blade.
I really liked the video, and it is very nice of you to share with us relevent informations concerning the Takemitsu and the move you showed us how to do, this was an interesting watch, thanks for the tutorial .
fifty years ago, i studied kendo. on occasion, our teacher would recommend a toshiro mifune movie. there is a famous duel at the culmination of sanjuro, which involves a strange draw and cut that i could NEVER quite understand. is that something you could demonstrate? thanks.
I'll explain it textxually. He grabs the sword in a backwards grip with the left hand. First he pulls _back_ which pushes the scabbard deeper into the belt and serves the function of "sayabiki" you'd do with the left hand in a normal draw. Then he pulls the sword out and cuts.
@@bryanlunt7579 it has to be something like that. but drawing a sword, edge up, getting the point past your armpit, then cutting from a backward grip... seems incredibly awkward. i AM dyslexic, so i am probably missing some crucial aspect of the draw. it might be easier if the blade were carried edge down in the sheath.
@@sleethmitchell Here it is, it can be played at lower speed. I think the other person's description was more accurate than mine. th-cam.com/video/UkkF6Zz67TE/w-d-xo.html
Thanks! Though I will say that I didn't watch your video to the end where you confess to using a fake katana. I followed your steps and practiced until I could spin sheath without thinking about it using my real katana. I tore up the skin between my fingers in the process! But, I appreciate the instructions. There are a lot of spinning videos out there but your method is exactly what I was looking for. It's the same that Ogami Itto uses in the Lone Wolf and Cub movies. Thanks to you now I can do it too!
This has been really fascinating and informative since I recently bought some wooden katanas and wanted to know some different tips and tricks for using them. I hope to be able to use information like this to perform theatrically for friends and family, to entertain. Plus, then I would actually be able to show off a little if I end up cosplaying rather than just having my swords hang by my side for show lol Thank you for teaching this, it’s been fun to practice!
I've been trying this for a while with my metal katana, and my thumb knuckle's pretty scraped... Should've seen the video till' the end for your explanation about the takemitsu. Pretty good video, loved it.
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With respect am using a razor sharp Damascus steel blade folded 1,000 times. I already have the technique of the spin and sheathing I would just like to achieve your speed. I learned the spin at 10 years old just recently learned the quick draw and sheathing without looking by cupping your fingers. Mostly because they didn’t have videos teaching Japanese sword techniques for 20 years and couldn’t afford classes to learn said techniques. Appreciate the videos by the way
I appreciate the form, the art and the effort behind that culture of japanese spwrdfighting. This is me speaking as a martial artist of 15 years. But the german in my reaches to his longsword internaly.
Thank you! Very good technique breakdown and that explanation at the end, makes it even better! Fan now, suscribed too. Don´t know how come I didn´t find your channel before.
Thank you so much for this very well explained video, sometimes it happens so fast that is difficult to understand but this breaking down of the technique is beautiful.
I came to learn how to sheath like Vergil. I leave satisfied. Edit: Now after 8 months, this has become a part of my muscle memory. A motivated way to sheathe a sword
Thank you very much for posting this. I've always wondered how it was done. I use tachi swords and I'll practice this with them. Of course, I'll start with my iaito because I don't want any accidents. All the best to you and your endeavors!
will never do that but after watching all zatoichi, the samurai trilogy and Ogami Itto movies it was really cool to see it explained thanks for sharing oops forgot lady snowblood she deserves to be mentioned too and now I want to listen to Meiko Kaji - Shura no hana
There is one thing about most movies with swords that I find amusing. That is the "shing" kind of sound that always accompanies the drawing of a sword in movies. It's even put with the smaller Tanto. I have yet to be able to make that sound upon unsheathing any of my swords. That's just like the "whop" sound they add to punches & kicks. I've never heard that from any practitioner of any martial arts. If you listen very hard, you can sometimes hear a quiet swish from someone's Gi when they perform a Kata!
@@stinkyfungus That's not the same as the sound effect they use. I have a 1/2" by 4' bamboo teacher's stick. It comes closest to that sound. However, in most all martial arts movies, it's way over used. I mean, I don't believe that any simple hand or arm/leg movement could ever make the sound, but they do in those movies. hahahaha
I've played with all sorts of weapons growing up. I did this with my tennis racket not to be flashy but it was a habit to loosen up my muscles from swinging around the Wilson Pro Staff 85. Saw the video up to the spin sheathe, tried it with my katana, then proceeded to watch the content. I'm not good enough to put sheathe the katana without the use of my eyes but it would seem much more impressive if I could.
Your shake off the blood swing lol they did that to shake off the blood yes but mainly it was done after each fight to make sure the blade and Tsuka was still intact and not broken. That’s what I was told anyways lol your videos are awesome bro KEEP EM COMING PLEASE
Let me also express my deep appreciation. For the way you've explained all of this. As one commentor said, i was read to believe this was an authentic Katakana. Not a wooden one. Thank you🙏🏾
I’ve been training with a sharp katana for two days now and your Chanel has helped a lot. I have a wooden katana but I never thought of training with it because I didn’t want to break it and now you’ve said that at the end of the Vidio I’ve desided to Cary on using the metal one.😂
Hey Ace. Cool video. The other videos on TH-cam are usually In Japanese by Nihonjin? At least you speak English? I am a fan of Martial Study and I am Japanese Chinese American. Weird Mix? Considering Modern WWII History. This is cool, but I also do the whole array of Martial strategies: Danzan Jujitsu (under Willy Cahill from Professor Henry Okazaki), Hakuakai Karate (brutal training under Soke Bernard Edwards, I actually stopped doing this as I got old), Ninpo Taijitsu/Ninjutsu (we shall not name the teacher), 7 Stars Praying Mantis (Uncle was a practitioner), Kuntao (another Uncle), Silat under Willem De Thoaurs, Esapada Y'Daga (Sword and dagger from my Chinoy Chinese Filipino wife's family), now I am going back into Jujitsu. I do this stuff and the one thing I have learned is that there is no simple way to do it! They are all the same thing. You have to address different ranges or you risk death. Work hard to stay alive or you will not live. I love the sword and find that to understand the Nippon strategy you must by virtue undestand the way Japanese Sword Stratgey works. The other thing is that there are no Masters ONLY teachers. I love Miyamoto Mushashi as his teacher was a Buddhist Warrior Monk from China and he learned that one must be extrmemely effcient, direct, and deceptive to survive and that no man should bow to another man since no man should be subjugated by another man ever. Also how to tell jokes... as he really did not fit in well with tradition. I suspect if I were to go to Nippon I would get a lot of silent treatment, as that is the Asian Way. They Ghost you. I am as polite but direct as I am American Asian. If I could afford a real Japanese Sword I would buy one. Do you have any suggestions on who makes an affordable one and not a crow bar? Peace Favor Your Sword Brother. Thanks! By the way: "There are two kinds of lies; one concerns an accomplished fact, the other a future duty." I am in fact telling you the truth? Long story is... there is only your Way. th-cam.com/video/NFcc9o6VHPY/w-d-xo.html
Hello sir Ace Aoshima can i know the title of your background music, it's beautiful in the part where you explaining the wooden sword thank you sir, i love traditional Japanese music.
Awesome tutorial, gotta try this. Just wanted to add that rapiers probably aren’t easy to do this with. They are really long and have shorter grips and they weigh about 1kg or more
You make it look so easy but I’m having a hard time doing this. I think I’d have an easier time understanding if I were facing the same direction as you.
This is a forgotten art, nowadays the gun is mightier than the sword, the minute you are trying to work the spinning of an index finger pew pew “you shot me” Im obviously jealous, I enjoyed the video and will be practicing when my kids are out of sight.
@@peters-Good-opalsi would have to learn before teaching, I meant I didn’t want to accidentally hit them when learning which is only possible when they are not around while learning
I’ll try to learn this in my next life when I come back as a samurai…
Its actually not that hard if u were to pick it up today. Just get a large stick for beginning lol. The only sheath you'd need is ur fingers to create a opening like a sheath and then practicing the movement over and over again. Then once u get a chance to get a wooden katana (preferably a katana cuz of course it wouldn't work on European double edged blades lol) train for 2 hrs doing the same BASIC movement over and over like shown in the first part of the video. Once u know how to spin a blade, then only can u try to sheath by spinning.
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Notification : Truck kun is waiting for you in the next alley!
You dont come back boy...one way it is..to heaven or hell..stop being lazy
The Shogunate has been abolished years ago
I was completely ready to believe you were that nimble with a steel blade lol
I love how you break down the context and purpose of these techniques!
Alloy.
I've attempted doing the spin sheathing exercise before, but, after a while I stopped. This video has encouraged me try it again.
Its good exercise anyways lol. Muscle memory training mostly.
go for it and upload
Im not a practitioner but I am able to do it lol. Ive always been good with spinning stuff with my hands and even will do it with knifes when im doing dishes and have been doing it for years. My friend was surprised that I copied him after watching him do a spin sheath
@@B_bang22 you're gifted... 👍🏼
@@gustavoadolfovasquezperdom1208 I wouldn't say that lol, but like I said I was already doing a similar motion with knives so it just took putting more strength into it lol
I literally taught myself this move more than a decade ago after watching Vergil in DMC3. I'm glad the technique I ended up at is in fact the proper technique!
My boneheaded self used an actual (non-sharpened) metal blade though, so I had to strengthen my fingers, wrist, and forearm before I could reliably spin the sword. I dropped it and/or hit myself with it so many times, but I eventually got it!
I taught myself this after watching Zatoichi: Blind Samurai. It actually makes sheathing the sword a little easier than the standard way imo
Vergil is the reason why I like katanas
U think that's dumb! I taught myself the Amak kyu Ryu no hiri meki 10 years ago after seeing it on Rorouni Kenshin! With a blunt metal blade
that's what I'm curious about. what if about the real sword, with weight more than a toy sword. and isn't dangerous to have a weak grip like that?! if someone hit you while performing that as I believe a part of advance application for this is for defend and a quick slash, does it still has the strength grip to held the sword for that momentum? for example, if enemy hit you while doing it, and you defend with that kind of grip, isn't it dangerous to held the heavy sword like that?!
it will only reasonable if some one have a super strength grip with their finger, far stronger than enemy. Or else, it will only turn into playing trick that will cost your own life.
This is just a modern methodology to try and impress the ignorant or uninformed.
Now, with this technique, I am finally filled with POWER and MOTIVATION!
I'm 100% positive at least 70 twits injured themselves using a live blade instead of a dummy blade trying this.
And probably lost their left thumb in addition to other limbs..
Still doable with a proper weighted katana, I have tried my self, a bit hard on the fingers but not impossible.
I did injure myself doing this but when I 1st learned this move from a video tutorial the person just said katana, they didn't specified it was for a light weight sword. I did eventually become very profiecient doing it with a regular metal katana.
Lmfao I’ve always trained with a real katana
I taught myself this move on a sharpened metal katana. Same one I used while teaching myself iaido and chopping fruit
Great breakdown. I do this with a blade sharpener to practice. My adhd made me start with spinning pencils and pens in class as a young adult to get the muscle memory. From there the weight just changes and the danger. I have a lot of respect for this man. When done in a fluid motion it's like watching a tsunami crash.
A Shiburi is also used as a means to sever the spiritual/energetic chord to your opponent after you finished them. A flashy Shiburi signals that you disrespect your opponent for being disrespectful to you and is something like a violent cutting of the energetic chord. A simple and calm Shiburi signals that your opponent fought and died in an honourful manner. That's what my teacher taught me during Iaido training. The move in this tutorial looks effin cool, though, and we learned this in training, too!
do you mean chiburi? :O but ye
Yes, Chiburi, the spelling seems to differ between languages@@Aleebi
@@phosphorusmusick Understood, just wanted to make sure haha.
Boy, you just can't get get cooler than Ace. Super friendly and non-assuming type of soul, and yet, when he suits up, he's all business ! ! Great site Ace ! !
Tried this once at my dojo putzing around before the class started at a muso shinden ryu school and my sensei gave me the death glare of disapproval. Feels bad man.
Oh he got jealous or you cut the curtains accidentally😨???
@@yiotatornadortheodoropoulo8706 probably one of the cases of disrespecting traditions as some teachers were just strict
Although i don't train iaido myself (would love to), I've heard that in some places fooling around and trying flashy stuff is seen as a disrespect to the katana you're using, so maybe that'd the case
Remember to count all your fingers and thumb after.
@@kiracomfortinghishomie8351 It is also used as a means to sever the spiritual/energetic chord to your opponent after you finished them. A flashy Shiburi signals that you disrespect your opponent for being disrespectful to you and is something like a violent cutting of the energetic chord. A simple and calm Shiburi signals that your opponent fought and died in an honourful manner. That's what my teacher taught me during Iaido training.
I checked out other tutorials. none of them worked, although after watching your tutorial, i easily advanced from the beginner-sheathing to spin-sheating in 15 minutes. thank you.
Thank God for explaining in detail for the technique and material of the sword toward the end of the video. I was getting discouraged because I can't afford to loose anymore fingers until I knew I could have practiced with a bamboo sword!
my husband,father-in-law and my father love old school Chambara films!
Wakayama Tomisaburo and Shintaro Katsu play in our house on sundays when me and my friends go out. I am glad my husband can enjoy himself on his days off.
I started to watch these videos because my husband loves to watch your channel.
Damn, you taught so well that I learned it REALLY fast, man! Thanks!
Notice: I don't even own a Katana. I do this in my backyard on the rulers, broken hockey stick with its puck hitting surface, and baseball bat I have at home, and am planning to get a Chinese Jian sword as opposed to a Japanese Katana sword, and yet it still works with rulers, broken hockey sticks without their puck hitting surfaces, and baseball bats.
Thank you for this tutorial. The spin looks so awesome and elegant. The wooden sword fooled me totally :)
Huh, so I've been doing this right the entire time?! I have a custom aluminum dull katana with a plastic scabbard that I made to practice with. No one taught me how to spin sheath, so for the longest time, I just instinctively spun it like the way Aoshima demonstrated. I just never thought that it was the actual way to do it. Either way, cool tutorial and definitely a fun trick to learn and do.
Well, as you probably know, there's an old saying that goes: "History repeats itself". It's entirely possible that you re-invented the technique for yourself. If you think about martial-arts techniques, you're bound to get that feeling, like "Someone was smart enough to come up with this." They weren't just smart, but had good instincts and practice.
Lone wolf and cub. Itto Ogami puts his sword away using the spin. I had a hard time learning how to do this until I came across your video. Great demonstration! Ush!
Aoshima, thank you! Your movements awesome. Tried it out and it works great. I going to practicing and show it to my friends)
Very impressive! And I really appreciate the backstory at the end. I can turn my katana but I think I use the whole hand when doing it. (Strange how difficult it is to analyze something that is done with pure muscle-memory) :)
Essentially, this is my experience as well.
667th comments here. I played with knives too much since kindergarden and I am way to used to nunchaku tricks. This is so easy. So easy I could do it right away with both hands.
I've done this with my T10 katana it takes a lot of strength to do this right along with keeping the momentum going, but since my hands are medium small size I had to modify the finger movement slightly sometimes even a millimeter or lower toss in the air to perfect this move. But it can be done with a regular katana
I've know this technique, but you have helped me to refine it. Thank you!
My dude! This was an AWESOME video! Thank you for sharing this with us! I love the samurai and anything I can learn about them and their ways, I'm all ears. You sir, have another subscriber!
That is such a beautiful and elegant movement!!👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏
People should post more interesting videos like this on TH-cam!!
Thanks for the tutorial! Everything is so much easier once you break it down.
Great tutorial but chiburi actually isn't to remove blood from your blade if you preform chiburi with blood on your blade a lot of it will remain. The actual use of chiburi it's to check the Mekugi is broken or not (for those that don't know the Mekugi is the bamboo pin that keeps your blade attached to your handle)
first of all, i don't think you need to explain what a japanese word means to a literal japanese guy. Second, 'chiburi' or 'chiburui' actually quite literally translates to 'shaking off blood'. So while you are correct with the statement that this doesn't completely remove blood from your blade and you still need to wipe it, you are still just being a smartass for the sake of being a smartass. Which is to say, you're being annoying.
@@SomeoneNr9 someone took it personally
It is also used as a means to sever the spiritual/energetic chord to your opponent after you finished them. A flashy Shiburi signals that you disrespect your opponent for being disrespectful to you and is something like a violent cutting of the energetic chord. A simple and calm Shiburi signals that your opponent fought in an honourful manner. That's what my teacher taught me during Iaido training.
I've been practicing this for a couple months with steel blade. I appreciate your thorough breakdown of hand positions.
Thanks for the hint on wooden katana. I was so stupid learning everything with metal one and sharp. I haven’t actually run into wooden katana when browsing sites offering katanas. I was also fooled by that aluminum foil, that may have been covering katanas in those youtube videos, so I always saw metal looking katana. Of course I started very slowly and then I was accelerating exercises, but it’s really stupid and could have cut myself or worse, lose a finger.
cool stuff and surprisingly easier than it looks. tried it with a bokuto a few times and wasn't too difficult to get the hang of it. now just takes practice to perfect it. very enlightening video
Such a refreshing channel brings back a lot of memories.
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Ace, your video inspired me to buy a training katana to try to learn this. Thank you, and I hope you create more videos soon!
Your voice change from intro to actual dojo area is striking.
This brings me back to when I used to do Cosplay. I was prepping to do Mitsurugi and was practicing his routine from Soul Calibur 3. He often did the spin and thankfully I had some practice doing some spinning tricks with poles and sticks, but the trick for me was to make pressure on the index and middlefinger to compensate the weight of the blade so I wouldn't lose grip. It's easier with poles or sticks since you can have them even out their balance and your wrist is making minimal effort to control the spin, but not only it's tricky with a sword since all the weight is on one end, it's trickier with a katana due to the curved blade.
Learned the basic within 5 minutes im so proud of myself
Hope you didn't cut off any important parts in the process 🍆
It's incredible how easy it is when you see the explanation for a second time.
I really liked the video, and it is very nice of you to share with us relevent informations concerning the Takemitsu and the move you showed us how to do, this was an interesting watch, thanks for the tutorial .
fifty years ago, i studied kendo. on occasion, our teacher would recommend a toshiro mifune movie. there is a famous duel at the culmination of sanjuro, which involves a strange draw and cut that i could NEVER quite understand. is that something you could demonstrate? thanks.
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I'll explain it textxually. He grabs the sword in a backwards grip with the left hand. First he pulls _back_ which pushes the scabbard deeper into the belt and serves the function of "sayabiki" you'd do with the left hand in a normal draw. Then he pulls the sword out and cuts.
Mifune draws left handed and braces/ pushes the blade with his right forearm against the back of the blade, making the strike.
@@bryanlunt7579 it has to be something like that. but drawing a sword, edge up, getting the point past your armpit, then cutting from a backward grip... seems incredibly awkward. i AM dyslexic, so i am probably missing some crucial aspect of the draw. it might be easier if the blade were carried edge down in the sheath.
@@sleethmitchell Here it is, it can be played at lower speed. I think the other person's description was more accurate than mine.
th-cam.com/video/UkkF6Zz67TE/w-d-xo.html
Nìce video man. Thanks for the explanation in the end. You are a good man n martial artist for being truthful. Keep it up.
Thanks! Though I will say that I didn't watch your video to the end where you confess to using a fake katana. I followed your steps and practiced until I could spin sheath without thinking about it using my real katana. I tore up the skin between my fingers in the process!
But, I appreciate the instructions. There are a lot of spinning videos out there but your method is exactly what I was looking for. It's the same that Ogami Itto uses in the Lone Wolf and Cub movies. Thanks to you now I can do it too!
I lost most of my limbs attempting this but I think I'm getting the hang of it
shit happens
second video so far, instantly subscribed. Good work!
This has been really fascinating and informative since I recently bought some wooden katanas and wanted to know some different tips and tricks for using them. I hope to be able to use information like this to perform theatrically for friends and family, to entertain. Plus, then I would actually be able to show off a little if I end up cosplaying rather than just having my swords hang by my side for show lol
Thank you for teaching this, it’s been fun to practice!
I've been trying this for a while with my metal katana, and my thumb knuckle's pretty scraped... Should've seen the video till' the end for your explanation about the takemitsu. Pretty good video, loved it.
You are the best teacher ever
Very cool, I've always wondered if there was any other reason for this flashy sheathing thanks for sharing and educating!
Thank You for explaining this. Especially the use of a wooden blade for practice and show.
Estimado amigo le envío saludos desde Lima Perú!! Me suscribo y tú canal y te agradezco el tiempos y la excelente explicación. Admiro a Japón y sobre todo la filosofía, la disciplina y el magistral manejo de la espada que implica seguir el camino del Samurai. Mis respetos y saludos!!
Good morning ! Well done . Thanks for sharing .
With respect am using a razor sharp Damascus steel blade folded 1,000 times. I already have the technique of the spin and sheathing I would just like to achieve your speed. I learned the spin at 10 years old just recently learned the quick draw and sheathing without looking by cupping your fingers. Mostly because they didn’t have videos teaching Japanese sword techniques for 20 years and couldn’t afford classes to learn said techniques. Appreciate the videos by the way
really cool. wish there was more movies and anime - samurai were awesome warriors.. honorable
Thank you. Wonderfully executed, wonderfully explained
Love your videos and clear explanations/ breakdown of the steps, Thanks !! please keep them coming.
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. This is well demonstrated here.
1:13 oKAY THAT WAS SICK!
I like your teaching and techniques. This is so cool.
Never too late! 🤩🙏
Thank you for more reference for my Samurai DND character -
THANKS to you I be able to do it! I did it with 1.04kg carbon steel katana!!
I appreciate the form, the art and the effort behind that culture of japanese spwrdfighting. This is me speaking as a martial artist of 15 years.
But the german in my reaches to his longsword internaly.
Thank you! Very good technique breakdown and that explanation at the end, makes it even better! Fan now, suscribed too. Don´t know how come I didn´t find your channel before.
I like how he uses his Batman voice when handle his sword.
I think that's his normal voice
Thank you so much for this very well explained video, sometimes it happens so fast that is difficult to understand but this breaking down of the technique is beautiful.
THis was very easy to learn thanks for thetutorial
Thank you for this tutorial, was super helpful and looks pretty neat, I will practice this one even more!
I came to learn how to sheath like Vergil. I leave satisfied.
Edit: Now after 8 months, this has become a part of my muscle memory. A motivated way to sheathe a sword
Thank you very much for posting this. I've always wondered how it was done. I use tachi swords and I'll practice this with them. Of course, I'll start with my iaito because I don't want any accidents.
All the best to you and your endeavors!
WHO COME HERE BECAUSE OF VERGIL????
hahahhaa dafuq man
Ghost of Tsushima
me
Who Vergil?
@@themoongateofficialI named my katana “Sakai’s legacy”
😂 i was wondering about ur hand strength! Awesome move bro!
Awesome spin! Tried it using a bokuto with tsuba. Too heavy. My forefinger hurts from the spin but will keep practicing.
does it still hurt?
This is so cool. Thanks for explaining that move!
will never do that but after watching all zatoichi, the samurai trilogy and Ogami Itto movies it was really cool to see it explained thanks for sharing
oops forgot lady snowblood she deserves to be mentioned too and now I want to listen to Meiko Kaji - Shura no hana
There is one thing about most movies with swords that I find amusing. That is the "shing" kind of sound that always accompanies the drawing of a sword in movies. It's even put with the smaller Tanto. I have yet to be able to make that sound upon unsheathing any of my swords. That's just like the "whop" sound they add to punches & kicks. I've never heard that from any practitioner of any martial arts. If you listen very hard, you can sometimes hear a quiet swish from someone's Gi when they perform a Kata!
Blades with a Bo-hi do tend to make an audible whiffing sound through the air when making a correctly aligned and fast cut.
@@stinkyfungus That's not the same as the sound effect they use. I have a 1/2" by 4' bamboo teacher's stick. It comes closest to that sound. However, in most all martial arts movies, it's way over used. I mean, I don't believe that any simple hand or arm/leg movement could ever make the sound, but they do in those movies. hahahaha
That was really awesome. Thanks a lot for sharing this.
Its 3 am and I dont even own a sword nor am I planning to own one and yet I still watched the entire Video and enjoyed it
I've played with all sorts of weapons growing up. I did this with my tennis racket not to be flashy but it was a habit to loosen up my muscles from swinging around the Wilson Pro Staff 85.
Saw the video up to the spin sheathe, tried it with my katana, then proceeded to watch the content.
I'm not good enough to put sheathe the katana without the use of my eyes but it would seem much more impressive if I could.
Your shake off the blood swing lol they did that to shake off the blood yes but mainly it was done after each fight to make sure the blade and Tsuka was still intact and not broken. That’s what I was told anyways lol your videos are awesome bro KEEP EM COMING PLEASE
Thanks for the lesson, much appreciated 👍
thanks for teaching those steps,now im fighting for my life.
So awesome!!! Can't wait for the next one! :D
You are an excellent teacher bhante 🙏 thnxs
Adding an obi-ani spin beforehand looks and feels super cool.
Let me also express my deep appreciation. For the way you've explained all of this. As one commentor said, i was read to believe this was an authentic Katakana. Not a wooden one.
Thank you🙏🏾
I’ve been training with a sharp katana for two days now and your Chanel has helped a lot. I have a wooden katana but I never thought of training with it because I didn’t want to break it and now you’ve said that at the end of the Vidio I’ve desided to Cary on using the metal one.😂
Fantastic demonstration!!!
beautiful this rotation sheath movement
Hey Ace. Cool video. The other videos on TH-cam are usually In Japanese by Nihonjin? At least you speak English? I am a fan of Martial Study and I am Japanese Chinese American. Weird Mix? Considering Modern WWII History. This is cool, but I also do the whole array of Martial strategies: Danzan Jujitsu (under Willy Cahill from Professor Henry Okazaki), Hakuakai Karate (brutal training under Soke Bernard Edwards, I actually stopped doing this as I got old), Ninpo Taijitsu/Ninjutsu (we shall not name the teacher), 7 Stars Praying Mantis (Uncle was a practitioner), Kuntao (another Uncle), Silat under Willem De Thoaurs, Esapada Y'Daga (Sword and dagger from my Chinoy Chinese Filipino wife's family), now I am going back into Jujitsu. I do this stuff and the one thing I have learned is that there is no simple way to do it! They are all the same thing. You have to address different ranges or you risk death. Work hard to stay alive or you will not live. I love the sword and find that to understand the Nippon strategy you must by virtue undestand the way Japanese Sword Stratgey works. The other thing is that there are no Masters ONLY teachers. I love Miyamoto Mushashi as his teacher was a Buddhist Warrior Monk from China and he learned that one must be extrmemely effcient, direct, and deceptive to survive and that no man should bow to another man since no man should be subjugated by another man ever. Also how to tell jokes... as he really did not fit in well with tradition. I suspect if I were to go to Nippon I would get a lot of silent treatment, as that is the Asian Way. They Ghost you. I am as polite but direct as I am American Asian. If I could afford a real Japanese Sword I would buy one. Do you have any suggestions on who makes an affordable one and not a crow bar? Peace Favor Your Sword Brother. Thanks! By the way: "There are two kinds of lies; one concerns an accomplished fact, the other a future duty." I am in fact telling you the truth? Long story is... there is only your Way.
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...so that's how Takeru Sato do his spin sheathing after the fight in Kyoto (Ruroni Kenshin 2 Kyoto Inferno), amazing sword skills 👏👏👏
Hello sir Ace Aoshima can i know the title of your background music, it's beautiful in the part where you explaining the wooden sword thank you sir, i love traditional Japanese music.
Awesome tutorial, gotta try this. Just wanted to add that rapiers probably aren’t easy to do this with. They are really long and have shorter grips and they weigh about 1kg or more
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You make it look so easy but I’m having a hard time doing this. I think I’d have an easier time understanding if I were facing the same direction as you.
Amazing, really. Thank you so much.
thanks bro...this is spin is very fire🔥🔥
Excellent! Gotta practice this. Thank you.
Just buy a freakin gun
I’ve been spinning sticks like this as a kid and I never knew until today I was doing some special sheathing trick
I had a wooden rapier on me, the one I'd use for SCA sparring, but like you said, it's possible with a rapier.
This is a forgotten art, nowadays the gun is mightier than the sword, the minute you are trying to work the spinning of an index finger pew pew “you shot me” Im obviously jealous, I enjoyed the video and will be practicing when my kids are out of sight.
Why not teach the kids 😊
@@peters-Good-opalsi would have to learn before teaching, I meant I didn’t want to accidentally hit them when learning which is only possible when they are not around while learning
Wonderful, sensei.
Very educational Sensei Osu!
Excellent technique, excellent video. I also loved the song, can you tell what's the song name, please?
great video really informative and easy to follow through