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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 20:35:13 GMT
Hey all. I finally got my video camera in the mail today so I thought I'd share with you my first recorded cutting. ;D
Any tips and critiques are very welcome.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 20:42:53 GMT
Good job on those half mats! I hate half mats; they're the bane of my existence. How did you get yours rolled so tight?
-MidoriKurogami of Sword N Armory.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 20:47:41 GMT
Good job on those half mats! I hate half mats; they're the bane of my existence. How did you get yours rolled so tight? -MidoriKurogami of Sword N Armory. I used the little stick that you turn to close blinds as a dowel to roll them around. I honestly thought they have been kind of loose but I guess I didn't do too bad rolling it.
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Post by YlliwCir on Oct 14, 2009 20:57:16 GMT
Looks good to me, RP. The mat ended up in pieces, that's the goal, hey? Good clean cuts. Nice pants. Have a karma.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 20:58:15 GMT
Really? A blind control? That's pretty ingenious. Bugei is selling a mat roller; it looks like a crank off an old model A, lol. You were doing something right in both rolling them and with your cutting form; the mats weren't jumping and your cuts all looked pretty clean. I have trouble getting clean cuts off half mats but we roll them kind of squishy. Very awesome! ^_^
-MidoriKurogami of Sword N Armory.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 21:00:32 GMT
Even tho I'm not an asian curved blade kinda man, it's vids like this that make me wanna get one.
It's also vids like this that make me wanna grow my beard out. +1
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 21:04:44 GMT
Nice cutting. Very quick and clean. What training have you had prior to making this video?
It is definitely easier to cut with a katana....that is what they were designed for.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 21:10:03 GMT
Nice cutting. Very quick and clean. What training have you had prior to making this video? No training (yet) unless swinging a bokken around in my livingroom counts as training. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 23:43:27 GMT
What can I say? You are obviously a lot better than I am, but that isn't saying much since I'm horrible. Keep up the good work.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2009 2:01:50 GMT
Nice for first cutting. Well done. The only thing I can see offhand is that you don´t use your body a lot. You move a bit, but moving more wil help with tougher targets...but more importantly, make you strike faster.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2009 3:49:25 GMT
Step into your cuts and always make sure your edge alignment is spot on. When you cut from jodan your sword should not be horizontal over your head, it should be slightly angled so the point of the blade is up in the air rather than pointing behind you. Keep cutting and keep practicing. You look like you had some trouble with noto. If you aren't trained then please don't do noto blind, you might hurt yourself.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2009 17:19:47 GMT
One more thing to add as far as technique goes (though Bloodwraith covered it pretty well): Don't cut towards your leg. the side you're striking from should be leg forward. If not you don't have as much power in your swing and you run the risk of cutting your leg.
Still all in all not bad! +1 for the post. ^_^
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2009 17:41:51 GMT
I know that this is the right way to do it, however I don't really have room to move. I need to clean up the backyard. I noticed this as soon as I uploaded the video. I saw the sword behind my head and said to myself "that doesn't look right" I practice noto with a bokken every day, but the trouble you are seeing in the video is me being extra careful because I'm not confident yet that I can do it as well with live blade as I can with the bokken.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 2:31:40 GMT
Hey Mr Punk, Nice first video Thanks for posting...if you are thinking of getting training (you said "yet" above) I would suggest that you go sooner rather than later. That way you can get immediate feedback and not cement in any questionable habits.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 3:00:17 GMT
Punk: Not to offend you my friend but practising noto with a bokken and performing it with an iaito or live blade are not the same things. That extra carefulness is generally what gets you bitten. Quite honestly you need to practice with an iaito that feels like a live blade if you really want to get good at noto. Until you have that experience you really should look at your blade when you perform noto, there is no dishonour in it. My comment on stepping into the cuts, you don't need a full step, you can take a half step or a quarter step, you can also step to the side or a diagonal step but the step is important to the body mechanics especially when cutting from jodan.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 5:24:46 GMT
Punk: Not to offend you my friend but practising noto with a bokken and performing it with an iaito or live blade are not the same things. That extra carefulness is generally what gets you bitten. Quite honestly you need to practice with an iaito that feels like a live blade if you really want to get good at noto. Until you have that experience you really should look at your blade when you perform noto, there is no dishonour in it. My comment on stepping into the cuts, you don't need a full step, you can take a half step or a quarter step, you can also step to the side or a diagonal step but the step is important to the body mechanics especially when cutting from jodan. I agree 100%
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 12:32:43 GMT
Hey Mr Punk, Nice first video Thanks for posting...if you are thinking of getting training (you said "yet" above) I would suggest that you go sooner rather than later. That way you can get immediate feedback and not cement in any questionable habits. I would very much like to go sooner rather than later, but it is a financial issue that is stopping me as I need to figure out how I would afford having to go to NYC. $20 round trip by train twice a week. That works out to $160 a month, plus the $150 a month in dojo dues comes to $310 dollars a month. I need to work on my savings a bit. As for noto, I've never felt in any danger of missing the saya, but if you all insist, I'll look from now on until I get proper training. ;D
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Post by brotherbanzai on Oct 16, 2009 13:09:06 GMT
Nice job! As BW said step into the cut and you don't want your upper body twisting the opposite way as your lower body. If you're cutting soaked mats you may want to wipe your blade down before noto so you don't get any gunk in your saya.
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Post by YlliwCir on Oct 16, 2009 16:31:30 GMT
Not for nothing, RP, a guy on SFI stuck a blade right through his forearm doing noto. Was some nasty looking pics of it. Me, I always look.
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Post by ShooterMike on Oct 16, 2009 18:54:02 GMT
One little tip I try to remember when cutting with any two-handed sword is that most cuts should "go into your open crotch" so to speak. In other words, you cut into or toward your rear foot. This acts in favor of body mechanics to produce a stronger cut while allowing you to maintain more control.
To feel the difference, stand with your left foot forward and make a downward diagonal cut from left to right. It doesn't twist your body or tie you up at the end of the cut. Then try it from the same stance, but cutting a downward diagonal from right to left. At the end of the cut your midsection will be all twisted up. This is why you typically add a step if necessary to maintain your body orientation to the cut. Good footwork prevents you from getting into a twisted up postion.
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