A few things I want to add | Katana Fighter reacts to Katana Trainee reacting to Sellsword Arts

[@dequitem]

If you are ever in Europe / Germany, than contact me. I would love to fight / spar with you! ❤

[@TONEDEAFSOUND]

thank you so much for this. so much information that was clarified

[@TONEDEAFSOUND]

are those katana in the back from akido armory ?

[@GhostoftheDojo]

@@TONEDEAFSOUNDthats right!

[@Subutai_Khan]

Fiore has some interesting applications for drawing the longsword from awkward grips or striking with the scabbard before deploying the sword from reverse grip. But this is very much a case where you have little time to think so that's just the way you happen to be holding the scabbard. The end goal is to get the sword out as soon as possible though at which point you use it normally.

[@Angelcat7598]

Yup in most cases you're already in disavantage.

[@TimRHillard]

Nicely done, new subscriber 👍👍. Context is almost everything. Example, who wins in Glock vs Katana? Well, what if the Glock is out of ammo?

[@Varim.Gaunniss]

6:45 in regard of "crossguard getting in way of cutting", umschlagen and ablaufen are your friends :) also, I didn't find crossguard getting in my way when handling it. At first it was weird to have a crossguard (hello, fellow katana trainee / enthusiast here!) but you can get used to it, also many forms and plays from Meister Meyer's Manual also translate pretty well to Katana, try first, third play from zornhut and both plays from ochshut to see that indeed it can be converted to katana :)

[@Varim.Gaunniss]

8:00 I must say... the "weight problem" is not a problem... they actually weighted almost the same, plus there are many katanas that are even heavier than longsword (my collegues who train Hokushin Itto-ryu style mentioned that), so...

[@Varim.Gaunniss]

7:21 AH! the zwerchcopter :D

[@Takayama_Jissenkai]

Excellent breakdown 👍🏻

[@KarnakZMZM]

So I see you’re an instructor. Do you have a website where I can learn more about your school?

[@ethanharman9584]

In relation to the reverse grip, I know Seki Sensei has shown using the reverse grip with a Shikomizue (Cane Sword) before.

[@GhostoftheDojo]

@@ethanharman9584 he JUST dropped a video of him sparring with reverse grip too, I’ll have to respond

[@DOT107]

Polish Saber fighting have a thrusting component in the art. so I think a Katana would also be used as such Saber fencer do incorporate a feint to false edge thrust which snipes youre upper head. taking advantage of the curve of the sword to go around a shield or blade. neat stuff

[@Timeblade_Guild]

Great video! Love how you explain it!

[@UlissesSampaio]

Hey, nice video. I was looking for a good video on the basic *similarities* of swords, especially concerning basic parrying techniques. Any chance you would be covering some of that?

[@NamazuRyuSaiken]

Great video! 👍 Good to finally see how you look like too 😆

[@siantlark6751]

There is actually a practical use of the reverse grip with weapons drawn and dueling in the Chinese context. However, it's not during paired weapons, but against spear. Changdao/Dandao, which is a long saber derived from the Japanese nodachi, has a number of techniques where the blade is held in reverse grip and extended out towards the opponent with the offhand held slightly behind the blade. The idea being that the sword held in reverse grip is long enough that the handle covers the upper torso and the body, while the blade covers your lower body and legs, allowing you to defend against thrusts easier by stepping to the side and also pushing thrusts away. Ideally, while doing so, you grab the spear, step forward and strike in reverse grip while the spear is controlled, but if not, you reset and try again. There are also two handed grips where you hold the sword in a reverse grip in one hand and orthodox in the other, but that's usually not what people talk about when they talk about reverse grip, and the techniques done while in that stance use the sword more like a polearm, like in halfswording, so it's less relevant.

[@Varim.Gaunniss]

I need to correct you on "changdao being derived from nodach", first ever use / application of changdao was during Tang dynasty circa 618 - 907 while nodachi appears like around 1130... so it is other way around ;) also second thing you mention is "half-swording", not exactly reverse-grip though I do joke about it being a reverse-grip but nevertheless more effective than standard reverse-grip cheers!

[@siantlark6751]

This isn't the case. Qi Jiguang himself tells us that the two handed long sword didn't exist in China until the Japanese pirates introduced it to them. The other writers of the manuals also talk about the Japanese origins of the changdao. Additionally, the Tang dynasty two handed long swords are different in shape and construction from the later dandao/changdao, and there's no evidence that they survived the 600 year gap between the Tang and the Ming dynasties. The second thing I mention is not halfswording. There are some halfswording techniques in the manuals that involve a reverse grip, but this specific technique requires the offhand to be free in order to grab the spear after a thrust was displaced.

[@GreatSunTzu]

Great video!

[@ping-a-ling682]

great insight! i wanna ask- do you know what Tsukaito you use for your sparring Katana? I love that red color

[@Peekingduck]

"Practical application in video games" ... Seriously ?

[@junjun_8070]

I don't unstand why Shogo seems to be allergic to kendo. Sure, modern kendo is very limiting and strange compared to other (more 'free') schools of swordsmanship - but the way he discredits kendo is ignorant. To pretend that kendo does not teach one how to wield a sword at all is just wrong. He really should invite a kendoka to do fukuro shinai keiko (like he's done with Seki sensei), and see how the kendoka fairs. Anecdotally, I'm a kendo shodan and I also train in iaido (eishin ryu). I never found that what I learned in kendo cannot be also applied to my iai, and vice versa.

[@JunelieArthur111]

Shogo already has a bit of experience with martial arts, so it's kind of sad that he falls to this pit of thinking. IDK if it is cultural or just personal, but him leaning far into the hard dichotomy of "sport vs. traditional" erases the development of kendo from kenjutsu in his perspective. I'm not saying that he isn't aware of this. I'm saying that it seems that he "rejects" this line of development. It is quite reminiscent of new martial artists saying that "My martial arts is the best because xyz" or "That martial art is bad because xyz." Yes, you could make objective statements on this depending on the context, but saying that one martial art is confined only in its own "space" is ignorant, especially if the martial arts in comparison are related so to speak. Ironically, having kendo experience would probably be good for Shogo, seeing that he struggled so much in his gekiken video. Theory won't take you far without experience and testing, after all. Then again, Shogo is a youtuber. Extreme or near extreme talking points are what invites the clicks. The viewers want drama. Shogo may be a very different person in real life compared to his youtube persona, and his irl "self" may not hold the same views. Can't be sure with the internet. I say this because there are times when you see Shogo actually being open-minded and open to new or "alien" ideas. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into this with very little exposure.

[@junjun_8070]

@JunelieArthur111 I'm with you on all your talking points. It's just such a shame that shogo has one of the largest platforms on traditional Japanese culture and martial arts, and yet he uses it to demote kendo which is arguably one of the most common gateways into swordsmanship. Kendo really isn't perfect, but it's a really great way to get your foot in the door if you want to get involved with kenjutsu and alike.

[@thechallenger752]

@@junjun_8070as someone who watches his videos, I don’t think he hates or even dislikes Kendo. I think he just views it in the same way that HEMA practitioners view fencing, seeing it as more of a sport and being less authentic, which I wouldn’t disagree with. Though, I am not familiar with all of his comments on kendo, so I don’t know the full picture.

[@410cultivar]

How are you even going to attempt to argue that kendo and kenjutsu are the same???