Steven Seagal: Swordsman (second try)

[Larus marinus]

• Steven Seagal practices with bokken and performs tameshigiri. First footage I've ever seen on Seagal with a sword for real.
  
  Taken from series 2, episode 2 of Steven Seagal: Lawman, and posted for the purposes of critiquing and commenting on his budos.

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[PizDoff]

This one seems to work so I've removed the other one.
Eating dinner now before the gym so not going to watch this, don't want to lose my appetite.

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I can’t comment on his swordsmanship, but he’s pretty crappy with a bolo.

[Larus marinus]

I can’t comment on his swordsmanship, but he’s pretty crappy with a bolo.

Might be intentional - to make his aikikatana look more awesome while he carries on with his Toshiro Mifune pseudo-samurai shtick...

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Might be intentional - to make his aikikatana look more awesome while he carries on with his Toshiro Mifune pseudo-samurai shtick...

I think that’s the main reason, augmented by his lack of manual labor.

[JaseMason1971]

Not a huge fan of the show, but he is right, the person is the weapon.......and everything is just a tool ( I have heard this quoted) from a retired Russian special forces operative long before I seen this video.

[money]

I had to mute it in order to watch it all the way through. It was hard to tell with the camera work, but on some of those cuts he looked like he was arm swinging and lacking good follow through.

Hitting the bamboo at a 90 degree angle with a cheap machete and then cutting it kesa (diagonally) with a shinken was just silly.

I'd say he's better than your standard krotty practitioner, but didn't look any more impressive than anyone else who has done real sword for a couple years.

That being said, I've been out of the sword game for a while so what do I know.

[Larus marinus]

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I had to mute it in order to watch it all the way through. It was hard to tell with the camera work, but on some of those cuts he looked like he was arm swinging and lacking good follow through.

Hitting the bamboo at a 90 degree angle with a cheap machete and then cutting it kesa (diagonally) with a shinken was just silly.

I'd say he's better than your standard krotty practitioner, but didn't look any more impressive than anyone else who has done real sword for a couple years.

That being said, I've been out of the sword game for a while so what do I know.

You're a bit harsh there. Japanese sword master Onoha Ittoryu would personally vouch for his blade skills.

True story. According to the Seagull.

No BS MMA and Martial Arts - View Single Post - Just how tough is Steven Seagal, really?

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[Rene "Zendokan" Gysenbergs]

Onoha Ittoryu:

No BS MMA and Martial Arts - View Single Post - Just how tough is Steven Seagal, really?

(for the non-JMA practiseners that didn't get Larus marinus joke)


YouTube - Japanese Katana Vs European Broadsword


YouTube - Cold steel kukri machete bamboo cut test

[Larus marinus]

Thanks. Without context, my post could almost come across as though I was defending Pig Poppa. Don't need that.

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itt%C5%...C5.8D-ry.C5.AB