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Post by genocideseth on Aug 14, 2009 20:54:53 GMT
Great job slayer! The moves were flashy in their own right, by why not huh? ;D You are a backyard cutter so it may be allowed. Just be careful. But nice fast cutting!
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Post by genocideseth on Aug 14, 2009 23:43:54 GMT
Also, you should do a video with the Fable Blade.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2009 0:40:12 GMT
The very first cut you made was towards the forward leg... you had the left leg forward and cut diagonal left to right. of Course on the recovery cut you were not doing so... fior double cuts like that try cutting from teh horse stance, or just alternating your footwork during the cutting... There or more examples in the video... but that one should show you what I mean. Ah... okay, now I see what you mean. I kind of thought that that was okay when I was cutting at an angle that was close nough to horizontal that the blade never even came close to my front leg. Would you still recomend not doing it, just in case? I though that in that situation I was safe, but I'll trust your expertise. -Slayer It is ¨safe¨...but getting into the habit of doing that while doing a more downward cut and we have problems. Especially since you seem to like being a whirling dervish, you will do what you train to do when you do that... so you wanna train safely. If you are doing singular controlled cuts...well then I think it´s less on an issue then. That being said, my strongest and fastest time of the hand cut is a pretty dangerous offside high guard to side guard cut that starts with my lead foot forward. It is a maneuver that I am VERY familiar with and something my muscle memory does all on it´s own...and it is still pretty darn dangerous for me to do...and it is something I avoid doing with sharp swords...or at least it was until this sciatica problem. Now that I am having to adapt to using more time of the hand maneuvers in cutting, I find I end up doing this maneuver without noticing it. Which really goes to show why training to keep your legs safe is so important .
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Post by sparky on Aug 15, 2009 0:56:28 GMT
I'm not Slayer,
but I appreciate all of this advice from those in the "know". It helps me to get better.
Thanks SBG
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2009 8:04:35 GMT
Also, I know the camera was on a stand which makes it safe to get the vids from this cool angle... but if someone was holding the camera you'd want them to be behind you out of the area where the centrifugal(sp?) force could send the blade flying should it suffer structural failure. Just a thought. Definitely. You certainly make a good point. At this point in time I don't have the skill to keep my cuts from going all over the place, so even behind me would not nessacerily be 'safe', lol. I prefer using a stand anyway, although in this case my stand was a beat up old plastic table I used as a cutting stand until I made some real ones. Thanks for the advice, though. If I hadn't known that, you could have just saved me a LOT of trouble. -Slayer I was not as good as you when I was your age, but I was also not using a sword that with a minor touch can send the red croovy flowing. You might try moving the sword in circles rather than doing Gumdo spin moves. I am going to show you one of my most hated video but it makes a good point. This is a 10 year old video of my sensei not long after he came back from Japan. What I want you to take note on is in sparring or cutting the sword moves in a circle and comes back overhead most of the time. Notice in Yokogiri (straight cuts) the swords carries momentum, so even though a good amount of power is being used Sensei is not being pulled to far out of center. The sword being used was a 10 year old first generation Musashi and as anyone can tell you those blades SUCKED. That sword is the reason why I HATE the video. A poor sword in poor mount with barely and edge (older generations had decent amounts of edge meat) so more "Umph" is needed. MY POINT is with a sword like yours there is no point on the force you use that pulls yourself off balance.... Fast forward 10 years and at 1:25 you see sensei in top form using a Paul Chen XL with a 12 1/4 inch tsuka. Notice no rocking of the stand and Sensei even pulls of a clean Kawasemi (kingfisher cut) on the tatami omote with little effort. And I can tell you the XL are not Tom Sharp. Learn to keep your line and use momentum and speed rather than power. IOnce you do that you will look a whole lot cleaner. Start cutting beach mat and that will automaticly change your cutting style...
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