2013 All Japan Iaido Championships - Highlights

- 7-dan Semi-finals: Kumeda (Tokyo, left) vs. Kosaka (Oita, right): Kosaka wins 3-0
- 5-dan Semi-finals (part): Utsumi (Tokushima, left) vs. Ohira (Oita, right): Focuses on Ohira doing 2 Sekiguchi Ryu koryu kata. Ohira wins 2-1
- 7-dan Semi-finals (part): Seki (Ibaraki, left) vs. Morishima (Kanagawa, right): Seki wins 3-0
- 7-dan finals: Seki (Ibaraki, left) vs. Kosaka (Oita, right): Kosaka wins 3-0
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[@gomcse]

Kosaka is wonderful to watch. Really love his technique. All his moves are sharp and executed beautifully.

[@lausenteternidad]

Each iaidoka has to perform 3 katas of seite iai (decided by the tournament organizers) plus two katas of koryu (choosen by each iaidoka). Am I right?

[@SultenZone]

This is a competition...

[@clintmurdock119]

I thought it was a sleep study

[@jwgoon]

I practiced Iaido for 8 years and never found it boring. But I never really accepted it being a competitive art. It should be a tool used to cultivate awareness (zanshin) and the Japanese sense of aesthetics. Competing one form against another just felt weird. It still feels weird.

[@chivalrylives100]

Thank goodness someone else here gets it.

[@SidHARDtha]

agree, on top of that its not meant to perform infront of people

[@narukami597]

@@SidHARDtha Yeah iaido is an an intimate and obscene activity so you should do it privately lol

[@Dethrey_]

7 dan Kosaka in the all white was perfect. just wow. Impeccable kata.

[@supersonic174]

I can't see how they don't trip over there pants..

[@shadowmist8485]

if they have the right size, they shouldn't.

[@seikibrian8641]

* *Their* pants.

[@matthewhopkins7042]

They have a lot of time practicing being transvestites.

[@MeatyThigh]

@@matthewhopkins7042 Hilarious

[@TheMugen108]

Very speed, kime, and zanshin. Wouah i love this video.

[@Yorky222]

An excellent demo.

[@AdamBlade17]

If you put the video at x2 speed it actually becomes enjoyable.

[@gordonhall9943]

awesome video!

[@jaydenb192]

Iaido is where they quickly draw their sword, gunslinging is quickly drawing their gun, so would it be swordslinging

[@pee9070]

Jayden B if there were gunswords then yes

[@TheOriginalArchivist]

@@pee9070 Now I want to start a gunblade league.

[@pee9070]

Hai, sensei

[@Kimera_Alternate_Realities]

That is beautiful.

[@arslanjahangirarslanjahang7386]

Japan and China very beautifulness fighting. practice. I like it man.

[@justdancefan-pv6lb]

You sound high

[@user-fd5ce5nv4y]

danke

[@arslanjahangirarslanjahang7386]

I like it

[@mfreimund2]

Keep the camera on BOTH of them.

[@VIpown3d]

Fascinating

[@masterlesstheband]

Who won ? Jeez, really left us hanging there Kendoworld. Lol

[@Bigboss5]

I notice a lot of seitei kata but also some hasegawa eishin ryu kata as well. what are the rules for this?

[@Wibbletaru]

The first two forms are koryu from their own school (that they choose freely), followed by three predefined seitei kata.

[@mfznal-hafidz8592]

I came here because Jirocho from Gintama

[@furankusama]

Sorry, but is that Seki-sensei?

[@GuyInAHotdogSuit69]

Wow. So useful.

[@shadowmist8485]

you didn't need to watch it.

[@luuk341]

Its not meant to be useful. It used to be but not anymore. Like many sports in Japan it has become highly formalized and is now more about fine detail and control than it is to be fast and deadly. But bear in mind, these are only Kata(meant to show control and form). other parts of iaido like tameshigiri is where they have to actually cut :)

[@shadowmist8485]

***** Japan police still use Jodo though :)

[@luuk341]

TheShadowmistProject I see! Thats very cool!

[@njorr4434]

TheShadowmistProject not you ffs. The guy who commented. I didnt respond to you I responed to bullpup.

[@KF1]

So who won the final?

[@Jose11500]

Iaido is the most beautiful of japanese traditional martial arts. If one does not understand it, is a short sighted creature. Of course the competition can one be with Kata otherwise someone could get sliced. My God, this is fully understandable. I practising myself Shotokan Karate and I must recognize for my mental health that Iaido is the King. Can someone think that tameshigiri is effective with a two days work? For all even sake why this peolple does not read a little !

[@MfJediKnight]

Thought this would be a spar.

[@11FOXHOUND11]

What exactly is going on here? Are they testing based on their form/technique?

[@BenEmberley]

yes

[@PaDesactivarInquisidores]

And the winner is ~~~ Who Knows?

[@tek2873]

5:38

[@misterman1371]

covid

[@MatheusRebelo]

when iaido became a competitive sport?

[@seikibrian8641]

When the ZNKR took over. Kendo is competition oriented, so ZNKR Iaido is competition oriented. It's their mindset.

[@NewBiePie]

Do we actually have to tilt the sheath in order to do horizontal slashes?

[@shadowmist8485]

yes

[@ocean9087]

Well in order to cut sideways yeah?

[@stephenureke7119]

yes. it ensures smooth drawing and the ability to build speed later in your training

[@drmitchgibson]

Nothing is more boring than this

[@showmae8459]

your comment. ..

[@IIISalvaIII]

Certainly not for everybody.

[@BenEmberley]

.....then why are you here?

[@benjnunez3861]

Play basketball then. That's boring for me.

[@ronin2167]

@Proton1 They do these slow so they can be fast. The speed is there and it is very scary to behold.

[@strawberryjam2164]

They look like they're playing xbox

[@nerflirui]

Well, just as I thought Chinese Kungfu competition is too choreographed to be practical, I bumped into this...

[@TacoCrisma]

Ray Lee Iaido as a spot is katas... iaido in its original form was training to kill via unsheathing the sword. Kenjutsu took over once the sword was unsheathed.

[@Eduardo-yh3rv]

+Ray Lee Like most martial arts practice always looks like choreographed, it is design to become muscle memory so when you encounter real danger (absurdly weird chance of it) you can fight correctly. Most fights are just crazy people hitting each other. And actually i think that iaido is the most practical of all because normally the first hit is the one that counts in almost every fighting sport and street fight. Iaido is made to make yoour first or second strike your final.

[@gastonh.guerrero8128]

+MidEasternGamer Thanks for sharing that video..it was amazing and a real eye opener!

[@CATGdesign]

IGNORANT

[@1chrishendry]

highlights are supposed to be exciting. this is boring.

[@KF1]

I've heard iaido described as "watching paint dry". It's fun to do, just sucks to watch unless you are looking for specific things. (side note, I'm no good at this, but am excellent at opinions)

[@nickjohn6547]

Chuck Norris doesn't use swords

[@arslanjahangirarslanjahang7386]

I. am. kung fu. master

[@saveEarth69]

can we fight

[@matthewhopkins7042]

This is why every time they went up against Europeans they got absolutely steam rolled.

[@KF1]

That was mostly decided by the musket.

[@denizsunay3824]

Iaido > Kendo

[@raredanceclassics]

Deniz Sulay according to your expert opinion or what? As cool as iaido looks you're swinging a sword at an imagined opponent. Try squaring off with a real one.

[@denizsunay3824]

Kenjutsu > Iaido

[@raredanceclassics]

Proton1 ever heard of an Iaito? Most don't train with a real shinken lol, they're dull blades. Either way, what good would it do you if some hypothetical sword fight broke out? Would you rather sit down and hope you can revert to some gnarly kata thats going to somehow work or actually be able to defend yourself against an enemy?

[@ronin2167]

@@raredanceclassics Not always, there are paired forms in Iaido. Do a search for them.

[@ronin2167]

@@raredanceclassics Not until they reach a certain rank then they must train with one.

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

imagine in the middle of the championship, one of them farts.

[@ronin1330]

For the ignorant's that lack the knowledge, I rather you remain as such, that for you not to know that everything one does has and serves a purpose in life, to find you describing this as boring only tells a little of the senseless life you live.

[@ronin1330]

+Meso Phyl 😌

[@shadowmist8485]

ignorants is a word that doesn't need an apostrophe

[@ronin1330]

+TheShadowmistProject If that's the case, than thank you for correcting me.

[@tdubbed_]

Ronin 13 Am I ignorant, and do I lack knowledge when it comes to Iaido? Sure, but no amount of additional Iaido knowledge will EVER convince me that this is not boring. I'm allowed to think things are boring as are you. By your logic, if I were to learn more about Iaido, I would suddenly find it to be interesting, and it would no longer become boring... So anyone who thinks Iaido is boring is an ignorant no nothing? No. I don't think so. Iaido is lame... to me. If you like it, cool. If someone likes to do it, then more power to them. I just came here looking at different forms of martial arts that can actually be used to defend oneself and, clearly, this is not meant for defense.

[@tdubbed_]

Proton1 perhaps. Perhaps you aren’t intellectually equipped to do well the things that I do well... or to engage well in the hobbies that I engage well in. But so what?! This isn’t a competition. We need each other, brother. We are all deficient in many areas, and we cannot know everything just as we cannot be interested in everything. There’s nothing wrong with saying aloud what you think, and it is not in anyway tied to intelligence. Is there nothing you dislike in the world? For any reason? Are you less intelligent because you dislike it? Of course not. None of that is tied to IQ. It’s personal preference. Whatever my mind and gut tells me, I have no choice but to go with it. I’m not going to go against myself. Perhaps there’s a reality in which I find this (Iaido) appealing, perhaps not, BUT it has nothing to do with intelligence. You aren’t less intelligent because you initially think something is boring.

[@avirongraff]

de la competition en iaido quelle honte !

[@1chrishendry]

this is lame. fight each other.

[@Kriicher]

Hopefully you've now researched different martial arts to know which include sparring and which don't.

[@childofthe60s100]

This is awful. The martial arts are NOT represented by this slow pantomime!

[@MicPowell]

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[@NoBorda29]

Is Boring!!!!!