chriskungfu

oh the SCA I've heard of them before, as I recall I tried joining but couldn't find a local group, I should try again it looked really interesting, what better way to learn about history then to go through it?

In my style for our blackbelt testing we must create one empty hand kata and one weapon kata, I currently have created a fairly simple nunchaku kata that I will upload to youtube soon, as soon as I do I'll give you the link.

Ya, I had the same problem when I first started as well, I bought rattan but when I kept hitting my self I bought foam covered to learn with, that really helped.

His stuff is usually quite good. Isn't he LE too? Don't think he has anything specifically for bokken but he has quite a few other sword videos. Um, I'm not sure, but he has +1000 videos so I figured there had to be something useful but I never did search it, youtube isn't being very friendly to me lately.)

Hey, I had the same problem when I got mine, so I decided to look elsewhere, such as youtube. Youtube however is flooded with "freestyle tricks" and as such it is very hard to find good videos that you can trust to be traditional. A user named chosonninja is ALWAYS traditional and so far has always been correct as far as I know. I'm not sure if he has one for a bokken though. But that should be a good place to start. When in doubt ask your sensei, I'm he knows other senseis that work with bokkens and such.