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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 378308" data-attributes="member: 812">I got into one fight just after I started Aikido. I showed up for training with some cuts and bruises and Skoyles Sensei asked me, "Did you hurt anyone?""No." Okay, I got whipped good. But there were two of them. Two are hard."Good. Next time, don't get yourself hurt, either."It's been a long time and I know a lot more than I did then. I still don't want to hurt anyone.Unfortunately your format doesn't really work for KSR. But here goes:TENSHIN SHODEN KATORI SHINTO RYU -- SUGINO DOJOFOCUS: SAMURAI BATTLEFIELD TRAININGNot much "use" for self-defense, but like Skoyles Sensei told me on my first day, if I ever meet a 16th-century samurai he's going to get the shock of his life! Heh.We start with the katana, practicing long paired kata, moving on to bo, naginata, yari, short sword, throwing spikes, and at very high levels they teach empty hand fighting and grappling -- all designed to work while wearing armour.Iaijutsu is another part of what we do -- the art of drawing the sword in such a fashion as to make an attack part of the draw. It's a meditative practice in a sense, though we're jumping about with lots of energy. It also provides practice with a real sword rather than a bokken, which is important for learning to respect your own weaponry. No cutting your thumb off putting your katana away!RANGE: ALLOne of the things we specifically train for is distance and manipulating it for advantage. Choking up on hafted weapons is common, as is reaching out with a katana one-handed in order to force the opponent to withdraw his wrist.STYLE: PRAGMATICVery much focused on using samurai weapons to defeat samurai. We cut for specific points because the armour is vulnerable there (underside of the wrist, just above the hip and so on).Not so much useful for self-defense these days, true, but the focus is definitely on battlefield application rather than what looks best or provides the best workout. Or at least that's what they say. I mean, who really knows anymore? There were a number of folks who actually owned armour and went out and performed the kata in full kit, and it looked like the moves made sense, but there's just no way to prove it short of actually trying to kill each other. Which is frowned on.Really? Why on earth would that bug you? Is there something about shameless dorks preying on those who don't know any better that you find offensive? Hey, me too! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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