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 Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:11 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:49 pm
Lol, that's funny stuff.
I'd post my pics, but I don't have any good ones at the moment.
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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:45 pm
My pics my pics...oh boy....  That's my normal one My not so normal one
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:32 am
I love this woman! xd
Heheh. You grip your sword wrong. whee
The left hand should be at the bottom for maximum control an leverage and to prevent the butt end of interfering with your arm movements.
The little pinky finger should be slightly over the edge. When seen from aside, the butt end should not be visible at all.
And the stance should be deeper. whee
Of course, you can't always have the perfect stance. *points at pictures posted earlier*
Oh, and both arms should be stretched and the left hand about the largeness of a fist away from your center.
By stretched, I don't mean overstretched. whee There should be a bend in the arms still. ^^;
Nice normal pic, though. xd
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:48 am
Me decapitating Chris with Tony's sword, while I'm in a formal dress wrapped in ribbons....  April and I being a couch and an airplane....? (I'm the airplane, the one in the front.)  Me being a ninja with a scarf...And this was before they gave me my fun pain killers....  Me choking Mere with the same scarf....  I'm not quite sure how we got in this position...  Preview for one of my seniour pics....(Hence the words.)  Another preview for one of my seniour pics....(I love this one!)  Me when my hair was short.... (Short for me anyways, now it's down to my a**! xd , this picture is from last summer/fall, something, so it grew that much in a year! eek )  And of course, my knee after surgery... 
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:04 am
Xx pengwyn xX Me being a ninja with a scarf...And this was before they gave me my fun pain killers.... That one is great! xd rofl
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:56 pm
Here's my only half-decent pic: Taken two years ago. xp
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:40 pm
Pics of my new 'switchblade' knife. And one of me for good luck The cool thing about my knife is that it flicks out and locks when you press a button. I'm not sure that's legal.
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:34 pm
man ineed to find my digital camera so i can show just how crazy i can be.(most lekely il include a pic of me in my vader mask playing ddr or something like that. As well as me with my flal!)
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:59 pm
JoshuaKenzo I love this woman! xd Heheh. You grip your sword wrong. whee The left hand should be at the bottom for maximum control an leverage and to prevent the butt end of interfering with your arm movements. The little pinky finger should be slightly over the edge. When seen from aside, the butt end should not be visible at all. And the stance should be deeper. whee Of course, you can't always have the perfect stance. *points at pictures posted earlier* Oh, and both arms should be stretched and the left hand about the largeness of a fist away from your center. By stretched, I don't mean overstretched. whee There should be a bend in the arms still. ^^; Nice normal pic, though. xd Oh, that was when I first got my hakama way back when. You can tell the hair is much longer *laughs* Stance should definitely be deeper and arms more outstretched though never locked. Had to stay small so the camera could capture the entire sword. But that is a strange way to grip a bokken that you described. I've never seen anyone hold with one hand on the very end of the swor.d All my sensei's and sempai's have been holding it in approximately the same way all these years.
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:12 pm
Lunaries JoshuaKenzo I love this woman! xd Heheh. You grip your sword wrong. whee The left hand should be at the bottom for maximum control an leverage and to prevent the butt end of interfering with your arm movements. The little pinky finger should be slightly over the edge. When seen from aside, the butt end should not be visible at all. And the stance should be deeper. whee Of course, you can't always have the perfect stance. *points at pictures posted earlier* Oh, and both arms should be stretched and the left hand about the largeness of a fist away from your center. By stretched, I don't mean overstretched. whee There should be a bend in the arms still. ^^; Nice normal pic, though. xd Oh, that was when I first got my hakama way back when. You can tell the hair is much longer *laughs* Stance should definitely be deeper and arms more outstretched though never locked. Had to stay small so the camera could capture the entire sword. But that is a strange way to grip a bokken that you described. I've never seen anyone hold with one hand on the very end of the sword. All my sensei's and sempai's have been holding it in approximately the same way all these years. A few examples from kendo and kenjutsu:      Note that the difference is more visible on the shinai, because the handle is longer. The same principle applies to the iaito, shinken, boken, whatever it is you're using. It is also the same in Katori Shinto Ryu, the kenjutsu style practiced by so many aikidoka's. The only exception might be in certain ninjutsu styles, I believe Shinkage ryu had something to do with it. In this case it would have been used to fool the opponent into thinking the wielder is an inexperienced swordsman. But this is done by switching hands, the left one to the front and the right at the butt end. I've never seen or heard of the two hands being placed directly besides each other. confused Why else do you have that much handle? It's not just balancing weight. If that were the case, they'd have used metal instead of mamboo and silk for the handle on traditional katana's...
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:52 pm
I agree with you JK--I've never seen anybody with a Black Belt hold a sword like that in my life... xp
In all my Aikido, Kendo, and just about any Japanese-martial-art-related books, as well as the Aikido and Bujinkan classes I've been in, I've never seen anybody hold it like that. The non-dominant hand controls the direction of the blade... sweatdrop
I've only seen that grip in, say, Samurai Jack and non-researched Anime (which are far and few in between). ninja
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:45 pm
Oh, but you have to realize that it's a bokken that I'm holding. The weight is a little different, especially with mine being a little heavier for me. Hmm I'll ask sensei and my sempai about it a little later. It may be just me doing it wrong.
Actually come to think of it. I may have been taught the other way once but lapsed back into practice that way because of the weight of the bokken. We also have very little chance to practice the ken because the ceiling at our dojo is way too low.
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:34 am
Lunaries Oh, but you have to realize that it's a bokken that I'm holding. The weight is a little different, especially with mine being a little heavier for me. Hmm I'll ask sensei and my sempai about it a little later. It may be just me doing it wrong. Actually come to think of it. I may have been taught the other way once but lapsed back into practice that way because of the weight of the bokken. We also have very little chance to practice the ken because the ceiling at our dojo is way too low. Well, despite the difference in weight, the balance of the blade and the technique is precisely the same. And holding it the way you do will only make it heavier, because you lose leverage, so moving the tip will cost more effort and most importantly will not be accurate. You could attribute it to a technical relapse on your behalf. xd In fact, I'd hope it's that. I wouldn't want to think several teachers teaching the sword in this way. confused That would be bad...
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:54 am
JoshuaKenzo Well, despite the difference in weight, the balance of the blade and the technique is precisely the same. And holding it the way you do will only make it heavier, because you lose leverage, so moving the tip will cost more effort and most importantly will not be accurate. You could attribute it to a technical relapse on your behalf. xd In fact, I'd hope it's that. I wouldn't want to think several teachers teaching the sword in this way. confused That would be bad... hahaha it's most likely not so much a relapse as I never got corrected, or got corrected then forgot again. I will have to ask my sensei and my sempai about it though definitely. I think that's the one problem with our school. Well one of a few. We can't practice weaponry as much with the low ceilings and have to wait for summer to go outside and practice. Jo's are a little better because we can do josabaki, but ken, no way. But I have to honestly say that I believe that's how everyone in our class (apart from the black belts) holds the sword. But maybe there's a reason? Again I'll ask.
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