Which sword art do you study?

[Solidman82]

I do a freestyle sword system. It's based on a blend of medieval swordfighting, Kumdo, Iaido, and traditional Kendo modernized for current situations (baseball bats and clubs). Very weird training but very interesting too.

 

[Southwell]

Solidman 82,your freestyle sword system does sound interesting. Where in Canada do you train ?

 

[Solidman82]

Prince George B.C., But I will soon be moving to Vancouver where my freestyle Instructor resides. We just need to find a place to train.

 

[mantis]

Arabian dagger
it's half martial art half dancing!
they do performances in wedding parties LOL
now I may start studying Tai Chi sword as a part of my kung fu training

 

[Walter Wong]

I train Chinese and Japanese swordsmanship.

In my Kung Fu school, you learn weapons by default to accompany the barehand combat. So for blade training at my Kung Fu school it's Jian/straight sword and Broadsword/saber.

It's a common misconception to people outside of Chinese Martial Arts to think Tai Chi sword and Shaolin sword is different when it's actually the same straight double edged sword used by both Shaolin and Tai Chi styles. Broadsword/saber is also used by both Shaolin and Tai Chi. The usage of either Jian/straight sword pretty much the same between Shaolin and Tai Chi and same with Broadsword/saber. There are only so many ways you can fight with the same kind of sword or blade.

For Japanese swordsmanship, I'm training Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iaido and just recently started Nami Ryu which itself contains it's Kenjutsu, Iaijutsu and Aikijujutsu. Doing Nami Ryu under different instruction from the Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu.

 

[Captain Harlock]

So many different styles. What wonderous diversity we have here. I have enjoyed rereading this old thread of mine and seeing so many new faces with so many new ideas for me to learn about.
:asian:

 

[samurai69]

study iado now, through my aikido school, used to study modern fencing, foil epee and saber, also in wing chun did double butterfly knifes,

 

[tellner]

Indonesian and Filipino

 

[Henderson]

You could call the main line of MJER Iaijutsu if you want, but you'd be technically wrong. The organization uses Iaido and Iai-heiho.

Masayuki Shimbukuro Hanshi refers to his style as Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iaijutsu (not Iaido). I would think he would know, considering he has been named the inheritor-designate to Miura Hanshi.

Respects,

Frank

 

[Charles Mahan]

By mainline, I was referring to the Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Seitokai led by Ikeda Takashi-soke, which does use Iaido. Well sometimes it does, when it isn't using Iai-heiho.

I stopped using the term main line to indicate the ZNIR/Seitokai line some time ago. While the ZNIR/Seitokai line is the single largest of the MJER branches by a substantial margin, the term main line is unnecessarily confusing. The post you have responded to is more than 2 years old.

 

[Henderson]

The post you have responded to is more than 2 years old.

:asian:

 

[darkell]

Kalis Ilustrisimo

 

[kroh]

Kalis Ilustrisimo

Nice...have you checked out www.fmatalk.com yet? Good stuff here and there. What kind of sword do you use when practicing. One of the guys I have had a few seminars with (Kevin Seaman) pulled out a giant Bolo style blade (from http://trainingblades.com I think) that he uses in his practice. Fun stuff.

Regards,
Walt

 

[Xue Sheng]

I study Chinese sword, Tai Chi straight sword and broadsword.

And many moons ago I did a little kendo.

 

[TheBattousai]

I do training in all sword arts, but the eastern sword arts are my favorites.

 

[Charles Mahan]

Really. Man you get around. How many hundreds of styles you reckon you're proficient in?

 

[kroh]

Aw man...here we go again....

 

[mtabone]

Charles Mahan :

Really. Man you get around. How many hundreds of styles you reckon you're proficient in?

kroh:

Aw man...here we go again....

LOL

Michael Tabone

 

[TimoS]

Really. Man you get around. How many hundreds of styles you reckon you're proficient in?

This thread just became much more interesting :supcool:

 

[TheBattousai]

Really. Man you get around. How many hundreds of styles you reckon you're proficient in?

Are you refering to me?