what style of fighting uses bokens

[akaira]

i got a boken and i want to know how to train with it besides running through the woods hitting trees

[akaira]

can some one help me

[karate_woman]

As is apparent by its appearance, a boken, or bokken, is shaped like a sword, and is used to train people to handle a sword properly without handling a live blade; it is a training tool more than a weapon.

It clearly isn't a sword, nor would I consider it a weapon in the classic sense, either. It can certainly be used like a weapon, but so can anything if given a little imagination.

It is used in kendo, or kenjutsu, and iado. Check out this site:

http://users.adelphia.net/~kyoshi/Kenjutsu.htm

I used one when I was training in kobudo, as part of my "sword" training. I didn't end up using an actual sword, so that is why I used the quotes.

I think there are a number of styles that incorporate the bokken into their part of their weapons training, even if their entire focus isn't on the sword; at my club, you learned kobudo(weapons) with your karate and jujitsu; another club taught it with aikido.

You might get more knowledgeable answers to this question in the weapons section.

[Martial_Artist]

Any style that doesn't want chop-suey students when teaching sword techniques.

[Master Jules]

As is apparent by its appearance, a boken, or bokken, is shaped like a sword, and is used to train people to handle a sword properly without handling a live blade; it is a training tool more than a weapon.

It clearly isn't a sword, nor would I consider it a weapon in the classic sense, either. It can certainly be used like a weapon, but so can anything if given a little imagination.

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A Bokken IS a weapon in the classic or non classic sense. Especially in the hands of an expert. Musashi, the greatest swordsman of all time, fought many of his duels using a bokken, as opposed to a sword, and with it, crushed the skulls of many of his adversaries. Yes, it is used as a training tool for novices, so they will not accidentally cut their practice partners (or themselves), but make no mistake.....in the hands of an expert, a bokken can and will kill you, granted, differently than a sword will kill you, but youll be dead nontheless.

[cheeks]

the bokken is used in japanese martial arts as a practice samurai sword.

and i agree with Master Jules, the bokken is a weapon in its own right, as you can do different techniques with it because you can hold the 'blade'

[Ali]

https://www.rsw.com.hk

My friend do this for weapon sparring.

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