reverse grip sword

[Yoj]

I'll add to that, we had Peter Boylan over for a seminar a few years ago, and he was telling us of his experiences in a japanese koryu dojo, they like to use shinken at higher grades. Anyway, when you first draw in iaido you snap the blade out, I know there is a word for it but I forgot, do it wrong and you cut the inside of the saya, do it wrong enough and one day it cuts through the saya, and then through your hand. It wasn't that uncommon.

Please don't LARP.

[kaoru666]

is there any other techniques that actually use the blade in a reverse grip fashion?

[Yoj]

is there any other techniques that actually use the blade in a reverse grip fashion?

yes lots.

but no real ones.

[kaoru666]

so essentially it's just a hollywood ninja thing to make it look all cool and flashy?

[Rock Ape]

Why the **** do you want to know.. are you some fuckwit ninja wannabie?

Jeez get out more.

[kaoru666]

Why the **** do you want to know.. are you some fuckwit ninja wannabie?

Jeez get out more.

no dude I just want to know whether there is any practicality to it or if it's just a total fabricated technique.

[spidersfrommars]

yea, 4 years in Iaido never saw it or heard mention of it, seems to be a lol ninjers only move.

[Yoj]

at 40 seconds, but it's hardly the cool XMA batton twirling.

YouTube - Shindo Munen Ryu Iaijutsu

[kaoru666]

yea, 4 years in Iaido never saw it or heard mention of it, seems to be a lol ninjers only move.

Well thats a good enough answer for me

[Yoj]

Well thats a good enough answer for me

LOL what about my answer where I showed it in an extant koryu art?

But it is just 1 out of 12 kata.