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**D6Ri5u13** · 05-26-2007, 01:29 AM

"I also have a questions about swordsmenship....is there a way to take out the opponent in an instant? If you use your draw as a major attack wouldn't you be left open to a direct attack? Also have any of you been in a state where you are forced to attack?..In self defense of course."

Sounds like Iai to me

"We DON'T ever hit each other in our paired kata. Not on purpose. Praveens-san said his teacher wanted to be hit."

Maybe we're misinterpreting this. I remember once my teacher was in front of me while I was practicing tsuka ate and he decided that I wasn't putting enough feeling in, so he sat down in front of me and told me to try and hit him with the initial ate. He was ready for it of course and he didn't actually desire me to hit him but he wanted me to feel like I was going to. Similarly in Karate (yeeeears back) I was doing... kumite is it? The paired blocking/attacking thing, and I'd started to aim my punches where he was blocking them instead of my target. He noticed this and asked me to try and hit him. of course he was quick enough that I never could but thats what he said. Is that in any way applicable?

05-26-2007, 01:29 AM	#24
D6Ri5u13 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 561 Senior Member	"I also have a questions about swordsmenship....is there a way to take out the opponent in an instant? If you use your draw as a major attack wouldn't you be left open to a direct attack? Also have any of you been in a state where you are forced to attack?..In self defense of course." Sounds like Iai to me "We DON'T ever hit each other in our paired kata. Not on purpose. Praveens-san said his teacher wanted to be hit." Maybe we're misinterpreting this. I remember once my teacher was in front of me while I was practicing tsuka ate and he decided that I wasn't putting enough feeling in, so he sat down in front of me and told me to try and hit him with the initial ate. He was ready for it of course and he didn't actually desire me to hit him but he wanted me to feel like I was going to. Similarly in Karate (yeeeears back) I was doing... kumite is it? The paired blocking/attacking thing, and I'd started to aim my punches where he was blocking them instead of my target. He noticed this and asked me to try and hit him. of course he was quick enough that I never could but thats what he said. Is that in any way applicable?
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