Lady Katana: Shit Happens
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I loved that place- badass atmosphere, cool instructors, really small class size there would be one on ones occasionally. Keep that in mind when I talk about some of the crazy shit, because it was an awesome experience.
If anyone's ever taken martial arts classes, they'll know the pretty standard procedure- stretch, punches and kicks, forms, techniques, maybe meditation thrown in somewhere. It was lead by the younger bald guy, while the older lady did office work- he was the crazy badass mofo. Great guy, maybe a bit too intense, but fuck it. So imagine this skinny dude running you through the same shit you've done maybe 50 times, do all the kicks, do some conditioning, etc etc. And then one day, he pulls a goddam knife on one of the people in the class, mid-session. Projects his action maybe a bit more than a normal knife-murderer would, but still fucking crazy.
The lady who he did it to reacts okay I guess, moves out of the way, yells at him for being a bastard. Guy says something about like being ready or whatever and we keep going. This continues over the rest of the time that I was there- he would try to cut or stab us during regular practice, and shit was crazy. Happened to me like twice, and every time after he'd talk to you one on one and be like, what did you do consciously, what was instinct, etc etc.
Thought this was all really cool until one time, he attacked a lady, and shit got real. She caught the hand that had the knife, and they started trying to take it from each other. She tried to pull some wrist-lock that obviously he had taught her, so that didn't work. He locked her wrist and held the knife out, with a pretty fucking scary look on his face.
Not like, 'I'm gonna cut you if you don't give me your money', but like 'I could cut you right now and that makes me happy'. She fought back, got away, kept struggling etc, and she ended up with a pretty good cut on her hand. She was cool about it, as she respected the dude and took her training pretty serious, so that was all fine. But like, surprise surprise, that knife had been sharp the whole fucking time.
By western swords, I assume you mean "long swords", as opposed the later saber and rapier type blades. Western swords are not just choppers. They use the draw cut, just like katana. Because of the different blade geometries, the technique for using the draw is different, but there none the less. The western sword making art was no less advanced than the Japanese school. In fact, Vikings were pattern welding steel swords well before the Japanese.
The differences, both in blade and fencing technique in result are a result of different steel availability, armour styles, etc. Western swords are far from the heavy, unbalanced, crude clubs that are alluded to in many books. While they are heavier than katana about 1. ARMA has some good essays on this stuff. Here is one, and another. That's when the cute asianess overcame the I will slice you into pieces asianess. But some still do. Funnily enough it seems like most of the time it's people who're not native Japanese who still use it.
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Probably more accurate to say Japanese cuteness. I don't see a Malay person either using a katana or doing the genki-jump any time soon.
I'm still waiting for her to jump to the stars, wink and get some sort of lens flare effect on her eyes I have seen kittens hug stuffed animals. I have seen puppies fall face first in their food bowls. I have seen babies giving the middle finger.
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But, I believe this may have been the most adorable. I don't think those chopsticks are long enough to penetrate the natural defenses of a Redditor. You only think that because everyone says they wouldn't touch you with a 10 foot pole.
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It's not a matter of defense, it's a matter of preference. Tameshigiri in its current form uses rolled up tatami mats that have been soaked in water for around a day to approximate the consistency of human flesh and muscle. One mat is about the equivalent of cutting through a fully grown man's upper thigh, including the femur. A bunch of friends and I used to do tameshigiri with tatami mats. I believe if you wrap the soaked mat around a stick of bamboo, that actually signifies the bone. The mat itself is just flesh simulation. Also makes sense why I was good enough to slice clean on mats, but never with bamboo in the center.
This looks like something I think I could do, but probably couldn't, but I need someone to tell me why.
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To cut something well, your sword blade has to be oriented in the same direction as the motion of your arms and sword throughout the entirety of the cutting motion. If she was less skilled you would have either seen the sword get embedded in the bamboo, or the freshly cut edge of the bamboo would have been curved.
The reason is, you're lifting you sword rather than bringing it down i. You're also going to have more difficulty gaining the proper blade velocity from that position versus over your head usually the easiest - it takes more practice to figure out the proper movement of your joints.
And her mom can have, like, supervised visits. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 4 stars out of 4, writing: Harley, what do you mean by that? Thinking you can have a happy family and coach little leagues, and make car payments? Don Ship Ms Patriot: This continues over the rest of the time that I was there- he would try to cut or stab us during regular practice, and shit was crazy. A psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum.
There's probably a lot more that my masters would see if they watched this - I'm far from an expert. It is soaked and bound to get it as much like human flesh as possible. One this thick is about like cutting through a grown man's thigh, femur included. I think my record was 40 something. Those old Blind Swordsman movies would have been quite different if, in the usual fight scene near the end of each film, Zatoichi got a big grin and did a little dance. Here is a list of video links that redditors have posted in response to this submission deduplicated to the best of my ability:. I was going for this I was kinda thinking of this.
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I went straight to this one. Because a lot of people find her celebratory reaction adorable might force a bit of a giggle out of you. Only works on humans, you're in the comment section. The humor has to be in the form that a cynical asshole would appreciate or it doesn't qualify as funny.
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I'm seriously interested in getting into sword based martial arts Have a black belt in Wadu Ryu karate, but there's no weapons in that. Look into learning the sabre. Assuming you are in the USA, it will be a hell of a lot easier to find a place teaching it than to find a place teaching kendo. That might be a bit less "Neatly slice through" and a bit more "Crush the front of your car". I've been looking for a good school for a while now, can't find any close to me in the USA. Both the larger bell heavier blade make for much longer more intricate matches than sabre of foil which often have points end in seconds.
Tang Soo Do dojos occasionally offer classes in Hai Dong Gumdo, which is a Korean battlefield sword style - not a dueling style like Kendo, you spend more time learning to move with the sword than sparring. The fact that this reference is so far down is testament to the Zelda franchise losing it's influence. I read "japanese girl" and clicked without reading further.
Also, I thought a bamboo was some kind of animal, still clicked. Well firstly thats a straw mat thats been rolled up. Secondly shes not so much excited that she cut it but that the first up cut didnt cause the mat to fall off and she could cut it again with the second upcut. Cutting these things arent that especially difficult but cutting them without them moving is the difficult part.
There are several interesting videos out there, here is one of my favorites from This is Haidong Gum Do though, which is different from the girl in that its Korean whereas the girl probably is practicing Kenjutsu and I am just calling it that because I dont know enough to say what shes doing, theres a multitude of sword arts in Japan but they all fall under the umbrella term of Kenjutsu which is 'study of the sword'.
Comes out like that chinese chick from sin city, all deadly and shit, then starts dancing around like the chinese chick from scott pilgrim vs. That's a really useful skill if you need to cut up a lot of veggies for a party tray I'd bounce like a little happy Japanese girl after doing that as well.
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