Thread: Why no tsuba?
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Old 02-23-2012, 01:53 PM   #182
Demetrio Cereijo
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Re: Why no tsuba?

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Katherine Derbyshire wrote: View Post
There are two ways to accommodate that reality: back off the intensity of weapons work, or take advantage of the added protection a tsuba offers. Which approach you choose is going to depend on your training philosophy generally, and what you hope to learn from weapons.

Katherine
There is also a third one:

Every type of work requires the appropiate tool. There are a lot of things in between shinai and shinken. Use them for what they are for.