Showing posts with label sword. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sword. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 February 2010

Sword Play

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Two contrasting styles of fencing (with different weapons). First the two handed sword, showing techniques from Lichtenauer's style. Int...
Monday, 14 December 2009

The Use of Weapons

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After a few repeats of kesa giri I made it my learning point to look at losing the tension in my hands and arms. I needed to make the cut f...
Friday, 11 December 2009

Wish I'd brought me sword

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It doesn't happen often but this morning I've finished my house chores in good time, have little design work to do and find myself a...
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Friday, 8 May 2009

Saya construction

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The saya is the scabbard of a sword in Japanese. The saya has a beautiful finish to it and is very often so highly lacquered that one might ...
Sunday, 26 April 2009

An introduction to Japanese armour and swords

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I spent the day in town looking for martial arts books and came away with an armful! I'll post a review when I've finished them but ...
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Friday, 24 April 2009

Kiai in the zone

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Check out this crazy kendoka who seems to be in the zone emitting some strange kiais and delivering one-handed cuts. I don't know how co...
Sunday, 5 April 2009

Martial Arts Festival - iai

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This demo was lead by Hanshi Mike Selvey and as well as some iaido kata the guys treated us to some iai-jutsu kata and koryu kata as well as...
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Thursday, 26 March 2009

Menuki

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The menuki is a sword hilt decoration found on Japanese samurai swords. It is fitted to the handle (Tsuka) over the (usually) ray skin and u...
Sunday, 15 February 2009

Kogatana

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The kogatana was an accessory knife associated with the wakizashi (which originally meant 'side arm). Samurai would wear this shorter sw...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Nagasone Kotetsu 1597-1678

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Nagasone Kotetsu (長曾禰虎徹) (c. 1597-1678) was a gunsmith who later took to making swords and earned a reputation for making simple sabres whic...
Wednesday, 9 January 2008

The Sword

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I'm reading a book about signs and symbols. This is an are which fascinates me. For me it's linked to the development of communicati...