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Jun Akiyama wrote:
This might be better as a topic for a new thread (which I may create if this subject takes off), but I have to say that after having done tameshigiri with a shinken a few times, my "swing" with a bokuto has changed -- for the better, in my opinion, to one that's less "choppy" and more "slicing."
-- Jun
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I know I'm getting off the subject, but I was wondering Jun - can you relate this slicing to taijutsu i.e. do you think the slicing motion is better for throws because you get better extension and/or blending. i.e. is the slicing cut identical to the extension during a throw? I can relate the holding down of someone's bokken very clearly to the dropping of centre, drawing down and the way I move off centre line when for example doing kaiten-nage - the feeling is almost identical.