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Ahhh you must be with Mic Marelli Sensei, might I just add that he is awesome at weapons, not to mention his taijitsu of course.
My Sensei believes that weapons is important, afterall we are a samurai based martial art and the samurai were known as skilled swordsmen. I have been told, and I am yet to discover it myself, but in practising weapons in particular bokken you are practising taijitsu. As my Sensei says, when doing taijitsu look for weapons and when doing weapons look for taijitsu.
In the past for shodan u needed to do the 13 jo partner practise, ki no musubi not tachi and happo giri 2 ways. Now it has changed to jus the 7 ken suburi and the 21 jo suburi. But Sensei expects it at shodan level. And in my opinion I believe he prefers A+ grade suburi and not know anything else rather than knowing everything at C grade level.
That is my humble understanding of the subject.
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