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09-10-2007, 12:37 PM
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
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Joshua Reyer wrote:
Gasshi-uchi. As I understand it, gasshi-uchi is similar to Ono-ha Itto-ryu's kiri-otoshi, if anyone knows that. There's no flick in the deflection; the YSR swordsman simply times his jodan attack a split second later than the opponent's, cutting straight down his own center line. Apparently, starting that split-second later causes the deflection of the opponent's sword.
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I hope it does, this is what a zhornhaw (strike of warth) is all about.
About the swallow tail cut)
May be it is all of them.
I do not know if it helps, but another cut called the krumphaw. (crooked/curved strike cut)
And a deflection done from that cut, "as soon as the blade clangs" we either reverse the sword to strike with the short edge at the head.
There is another cut where you do that even before contact between the sword (a shielhaw, glancing strike)
Both have tat in common the structure of the deflection comes from the position of the sword swinging to the left via the handle during the cut. (if the cut was originally from the right
In long sword taking the short edge, put your wrist elbow in a very strong alignment, however because stiking efficiently with the short edge is relatively difficult to teach beginner, I use a version where you make the shape but using the long edge . (The only edge you have on a tachi/katana).
If we assume that the "drying pole" was as the legend has it an almost straight and quite long sword). Either would work a treat, after all a long sword is longer than a katana/taschi
But what I am trying to get at is may be the swallow tail cut is more akin to a given long sword cut name and is collection of possibilities using the same principle rather than a very strict single cut description.
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One Ringeck to bring them all and in darkness bind them,
In the Land of Windsor where phlip phlop live.
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09-11-2007, 01:40 AM
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
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09-11-2007, 04:27 AM
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Dojo: Dangayan Singkaw Aikido Shinzui Group Philippines
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
Woodcut of a Kabuki actor playing the part of Sasaki Kojiro, supposedly about to perform Tsubame-Gaeshi
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Inocencio Maramba, MD, MSc
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09-12-2007, 11:16 AM
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
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it is my understanding that the statue and the drawings are way posterior to the events so it not likely that they can be relied upon.
phil
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One Ringeck to bring them all and in darkness bind them,
In the Land of Windsor where phlip phlop live.
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09-12-2007, 11:26 AM
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
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Woodcut of a Kabuki actor playing the part of Sasaki Kojiro, supposedly about to perform Tsubame-Gaeshi
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And apparently getting whacked rather handily with an oar for his trouble...
Best,
Ron (damn oars, always showing up in bad places...)
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09-12-2007, 11:50 AM
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
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Ron Tisdale wrote:
And apparently getting whacked rather handily with an oar for his trouble...
Best,
Ron (damn oars, always showing up in bad places...)
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Hehehe.. I guess it's our idol, "Ruler of a Cave, never take a bath" Musashi at the other end of that boat oar...
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Inocencio Maramba, MD, MSc
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09-12-2007, 11:54 AM
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
i think that it works on the same principle as that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGZTMVd8Cu8
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One Ringeck to bring them all and in darkness bind them,
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09-13-2007, 06:06 PM
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
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Hehehe.. I guess it's our idol, "Ruler of a Cave, never take a bath" Musashi at the other end of that boat oar...
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It is.... One of his duals featured him crippling/killing his opponent with a boat oar.
I can referance later when I get home it if anyone wants specifics...
William Hazen
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09-14-2007, 12:43 AM
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
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William Hazen wrote:
It is.... One of his duals featured him crippling/killing his opponent with a boat oar.
I can referance later when I get home it if anyone wants specifics...
William Hazen
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It must be a woodcut of the climactic moment of a Kabuki play about the duel between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi at Ganryu Island. I can't translate the kanji but if one looks closely you can see the setting is on a beach (wonder how they replicated that on a kabuki stage?). Anyway, the story goes that Musashi woke up late, and spent the boat trip to the island whittling on a spare boat oar (eku) with his wakizashi, until it resembled a crude bokken. It was this boat oar /bokken that he used to mortally wound Sasaki just as the latter was performing tsubame gaeshi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_Kojiro
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Inocencio Maramba, MD, MSc
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09-14-2007, 10:58 AM
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Re: The swallow cut?!!!
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Cito Maramba wrote:
It must be a woodcut of the climactic moment of a Kabuki play about the duel between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi at Ganryu Island. I can't translate the kanji but if one looks closely you can see the setting is on a beach (wonder how they replicated that on a kabuki stage?). Anyway, the story goes that Musashi woke up late, and spent the boat trip to the island whittling on a spare boat oar (eku) with his wakizashi, until it resembled a crude bokken. It was this boat oar /bokken that he used to mortally wound Sasaki just as the latter was performing tsubame gaeshi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_Kojiro
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Thanks for the info Cito...
William Hazen
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