QuiKsiLVeR Posted May 26, 2003 Posted May 26, 2003 hi everyone i already do karate and really enjoy it, and i have just bought a damn nice katana cuz i wanna learn weapons basically, so my question is, whats the best route for me? i know i can't learn weapons (especially katana) as part of karate, so would i have to do ju-jiisu or summat? (which i aint keen on doing) - where do i go from here? thanks
TomanGaidin Posted May 26, 2003 Posted May 26, 2003 Depends on what type of sword art you're wanting to do. The ones I vaguely know of are kendo, iado, and kenjutsu. Kendo would most likely be expensive considering the gear required, but has free sparring/randori as its focus. Iado is a sword drawing art - slashing straight from the draw, etc, though I'm assuming it also has normal cuts within it also. Kenjutsu is, I think, the precursor of kendo - less of a sport and more focused on combat. Some forms of ju-jutsu, or arts derived from ju-jutsu, sometimes contain elements of kenjutsu if they have bokken work in them (i.e, aikido).
Shorin Ryuu Posted May 26, 2003 Posted May 26, 2003 Most karate styles I know of practice only traditional weaponry like the sai, bo, tonfa, nunchaku, etc. and not the katana. I randomly went out and bought an iaito, which is a practice sword for iaido. I don't have a teacher or anything and all I do with it is practice some basics I read in a few books and can do just knowing basics of weaponry every once in a while. I plan to do iaido eventually, I just can't really find a teacher right now. You don't necessarily have to quit karate, just find more time to add in to your schedule if you want to do both. I for one still intend to do karate while I study the sword later on. Martial Arts Blog:http://bujutsublogger.blogspot.com/
wcnavstar Posted May 27, 2003 Posted May 27, 2003 Once again Karate does not use the Katana, try Iaido, Kendo ect... "We work with being, but non-being is what we use" Tao Te Ching
tommarker Posted May 27, 2003 Posted May 27, 2003 Iaido, but some people find arranging their hakama for 20 minutes between draws to be a little boring and add Kendo to spice things up. Some Aikido schools will teach sword work. Also, Kuk Sool Won and Haedong Gumdo on the Korean side. I'm no longer posting here. Adios.
QuiKsiLVeR Posted May 28, 2003 Author Posted May 28, 2003 so would Kendo be the obvious choice then? i would be interested in a more practical but still artistic form of swordplay - one that involves sparring (not with sharpened weapons obviously) and some nice kata... would this be Kendo?
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