Love it. The essence is simple..You run into a group of enemy, who are usually lightly armoured and cut them down as you run along, shrieking like a banshee. Its not a duelling style, not a style for one on one. Its a style to cut down as many of the enemy as you can, as quickly as you can.
”正座、 礼” "Seiza, Rei", means to sit in "seiza" position on the knees and then bow, "rei", which is a greeting and sign of respect to the teacher and fellow students. ”黙想” "Mokusou", is a form of meditation that can be as long or as brief as you need it to be, but the point is to clear your mind of unnecessary things and focus on practice. In the video, they did a combination of sitting in seiza, brief mokusou, then bowing with rei.
Kondo Isami who was a bureau chief of the shinsen-gumi said, "Never defend the First blow of a jigen-riyu" They trained a powerful blow by such a method. we can't understand in the only view of modernistic kendo.
I love this style! It’s cognitively and physically fluent. All the chopping and lunges must make these people’s fingers, wrists, forearms, shoulders, back, core, quads, calves, and feet/ ankles extremely strong! I addition, from all that running around, their endurance/stamina must be off the charts. This is similar to chopping wood and sledgehammer work. I don’t use a sword, but I do use a hanbo and jo, and this style could improve my strength with those weapons. No, this style is not silly or ugly! Didn’t Musashi kill Sasaaki with one stroke from a carved down boat oar? Think about it!
Jigen-ryu was very effective style used in battle during the Meiji Restoration. Yeah, they look and sound pretty silly whacking a bundle of sticks. But imagine yourself back then, as a samurai on the battlefield with a Jigen-ryu swordsman charging at you. He is screaming at you like a mad man, his eyes say "I don't care if I die, as long as I take you with me" and is about to bring a cold steel blade down on your face with arms that were conditioned by a few thousand strikes with those heavy sticks on a daily basis for years.
Side step is your friend. The way they hold their sword is very limiting. Also arrows. Giving a good indication of your position is a great way to get an arrow to the face. Basically against peasants it will work...but what doesn't. Against trained soldiers...you are just asking to die with no results.
@@ColdNapalm42 they can also do diagonal cuts. this was the feared ryu during that time. take note that even soldiers and shinsengumi feared this, and they are soldiers...
@@Keevas2123 the way they are holding their weapons, the diagonal cut is steep...and highly telegraphed. So...yes side step is your friend. Also, if this phased professional soldier of the era, that say more about how bad the warriors of that era is more than anything else.
@@ColdNapalm42 you clearly don't realize how sword fighting works in real life. And you just base on this video. Hundreds years have passed since the original technique used by actual people. Over the decades some technique transform from practical use to more artistic use. Watch hema videos and kendo. Although the practical use for war in kendo in war was gone, just imagine if you can sidestep.
I hope that someday Japan will get absolute sovereignty from usa. Today Japan loosing its historical identity. Look at these real men- honorable traditionalists that saving Japan culture. Banzai!
I met to him before, He was intelligent and kindness, Also I training other budo, but he respected other styles. Thank you Wada san you were a Samurai.
canal muito bom. excelentes matérias e reportagens, tem me ensinado sobre a cultura japonesas muitas coisas que não aprendi por outros lugares. bacana demais!
Raxapheon Not to mention that each sword is crafted to have its own identity. Also, there is the forging stage, sharpening stage and polishing stage. Each stage can take months depending on the end result that each of them strive for.
I think this is a good example of: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." And the thing is, the Satsuma Clan had literally thousands of warriors who practiced this 1,000,000 times.
Kendo is changed sports from Kenjutsu. This Jigen ryu is real kenjutsu as sword martial arts. Anyway sword arts must swing a sword from up to down. This movement shoud be fast and strong. So this training of smashing wood is very rational. And those sticks are special kind of tree. The gathered woods are specially strong to be tapped by wood sword. While the wood sword also stronger than casual wooden sword as Bokutou. The samurai who killed English men riding on horse at Kanagawa in 1865, was JIgen ryu specialist. When English men went to cross the road in front of the convoy of Satsuma lord without concius of manners to Lord, the samurai killed english men by jigen ryu instantly as a second.
Many Kenjutsu styles were actually soft in application and were heavily sought after because they got great results in combat. With no muscular tension, you rely on skeletal alignment and using your core (hips) for power and can maneuver more efficiently. But with so many different Kenjutsu schools it’s important to remember that they existed for so long because they used their methods with success, despite the very different methods.
This is the silliest martial arts practicing I have ever seen, I think it seems to be perfect for those who have watched way to much anime. Still I would not want to get hit by one of these guys.
lemondrop Just pick on the guy with dyslexia and who's writing in his second language, that's perfectly fine. No problem at all. None. *Starts to cry loudly and viciously, then runs away howling.*
You should learn a little bit more about this marshal arts. May be this was the most practical Kenjutsu in end of Edo period. Many samurai were killed by Jigen-ryu. Even Shinsen-gumi said that avoid first attack of Jigen-ryu. Imagine, 2m in front of you, anmy draw the sword and attack you by swinging the sword from ground to your body....... Many people laugh at Jigen-ryu. But samurai of Satsuma was the strongest samurai in Japan.
BizenKiyomitsu Well, killing samurais is something I personally don't have much use for. I would rather learn some kick boxing or karate, where I don't need a big fucking stick (wooden) with me if I would need to defend myself. But as I basically said, I don't doubt that it's effective as long you have a stick. But it still looks fucking stupid.
these guys get it. Hit him relentlessly until he dies or runs away. Hit him fast too keep him on the defensive. Hit him hard so that he has no choice but too react too you. In life and death scenarios, simple simply wins.
This is really weird, I expect to see this from random McDojos in the US. Unlike most kenjutsu schools I have seen, this one barely focuses on any technique and just...cutting your opponents in one pattern? Thanks god, there were not in Sengoku time or they would be the first to die wihout a kill.
Against what opponents is this meant to work against? The more I learn of JSA the more I become convinced nobody figured out how to use swords. Fun exercise I guess, but, if you need a school to swing wildly at an enemy...
