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**drgshmcm** · 11-05-2005, 07:00 AM

Sometimes you don't see the value of something until you've done it for a few years. Then, one day, you smack yourself in the forehead and go, "Ohhhhhh!" This is the origin of Musashi's advice about letting yourself be the needle and thread and your instructor be the tailor.

I think whoever said that the kendo-no-kata are to remind kendo-ka of their koryu roots is onto something there. As well as transmit technique and philosophy, the purpose of the kendo-no-kata was, as I understand it, so that kendo-ka wouldn't forget how to weild a bokuto! I think it's understood that serious students of the sword will follow kendo and let the kata serve as an introduction to a koryu. The kendo-no-kata and setei-gata serve the same purpose, as a bridge between shinai kendo and kenjutsu/iaido.

11-05-2005, 07:00 AM	#3
drgshmcm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 403 Senior Member	Sometimes you don't see the value of something until you've done it for a few years. Then, one day, you smack yourself in the forehead and go, "Ohhhhhh!" This is the origin of Musashi's advice about letting yourself be the needle and thread and your instructor be the tailor. I think whoever said that the kendo-no-kata are to remind kendo-ka of their koryu roots is onto something there. As well as transmit technique and philosophy, the purpose of the kendo-no-kata was, as I understand it, so that kendo-ka wouldn't forget how to weild a bokuto! I think it's understood that serious students of the sword will follow kendo and let the kata serve as an introduction to a koryu. The kendo-no-kata and setei-gata serve the same purpose, as a bridge between shinai kendo and kenjutsu/iaido.
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