Kendo Milestone: Seme with Tsuki

[@johnkwon7280]

You should be very lucky to have this kind of good teaching. Many people just give up as they're not lucky enough to have this quality of teaching. I AM sure about that.

[@KendoGuide]

Thank you for your comment, Rosemary!😀 Hope you liked the video. I really appreciate your compliment!

[@tartarart4922]

Thank you very much Sensei for your lesson and your time!

[@miodziad5448]

Thank you for a valuable lesson that will make me stronger and enable me to teach others in the future, Sensei

[@luisabreu4396]

Thank You ! 👍

[@KendoGuide]

You are welcome!

[@HGLundberg]

A question: I have received comment from some japanese kendoka that after hitting tsuki you should immediately pull back your hands to chudan position. You do it as I’ve understood how it should be done. Are there different schools of thought around this?

[@KendoGuide]

Thank you for your comment and question. If you look carefully, I do pull back my shinai after tsuki. You need to pull your sword out of your opponent's body after you stabbed them, so you can prepare yourself. That is a reason behind. It shouldn't be a tap since it is a thrust. But as the same time you don't want to keep pushing your opponent with your shiai on their tsuki. Does this make sense? I have a tsuki instruction video. Not here on KZbin. It is available to the members at www.patreon.com/kendoforlife. One big reason is that it is too dangerous so it is not used by the inexperienced.

[@tengu190]

@@KendoGuide I've always taught it that way, tsuki is a reinforcement of chudan no kamae.