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Old 11-07-2007, 12:45 PM   #21
Stefan Stenudd
 
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Sword art basics

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Keith Larman wrote: View Post
I think many peoples' aikido could be greatly improved if they also improved their form with the bokken. And to me that doesn't mean switching hands -- it means learning to cut correctly in the first place.
I totally agree with you. Like you, I'm not interested in trying a reversed grip - sword art basics are indeed difficult enough as it is. And I am quite convinced that aikido students would benefit tremendously from studying the sword arts as they are, not through aikiken misconceptions with a bokken.
I was fortunate to study for Nishio sensei, who stressed this repeatedly.
I even dared to develop a simple system of sword exercises for aikido students, aikibatto, for the purpose of making them try the sword sort of closer to its own reality. But alas, the sword is certainly a lifetime study, as well.

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