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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2009 1:49:12 GMT
Does any one know of a school of instruction that focuses a lot or mainly on the wakizashi and even wielding two wakizashi (no escrima references please) thank you
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2009 12:04:57 GMT
Hello mate. Whilst I am unaware of any schools that use a two wakizashi kata system, there is Hyôhô Niten Ichi-ryû which has many two-sword(Kat. and Wak. together) kata. It also has seven seperate kata for just the Wakizashi. My school Shintô Musô-ryû, has only one kata with two swords(Nitô ai), and four kata for just wakizashi. Most koryu will have some wakizashi kata in their curriculum, not all, but most will. It is a very handy weapon. Why I think you may find it hard to find a school that has a two wakizashi kata system is that a samurai would never have need, in days of old, to have two wakizashi on them at any one time. The daisho(long and short sword) was the most common set-up and by law it would signify its wearer as being samurai. Any samurai would not wish to be seen as anything else that what it is his right to be ! Merchants were allowed to wear wakizashi due to their blade length. Only samurai were allowed to wear a katana length blade. To be wearing or carrying two wakizashi, one would assume you to be a bandit, yakusa, crazy merchant and hence you would be shunned. A true samurai could harness any length blade in either hand, say in a battlefield senario, but as many koryu are based from samurai arts as I said before you may find it hard to find a koryu that would teach specifically what you asked. However, there are modern Japanese sword schools such as Shinkendo which may teach such things.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2009 7:53:34 GMT
i'd suggest jitte-jutsu and apply those techniques to two wak. As chop said, two wak systems are unheard of, at least I've never heard of any schools that are two wak oriented.
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