Ok, I rarely and deliberately ever make comments on RU-vid. However, I must finally comment in defending Antony on his excellent and credible work in samurai and shinobi history and technique. I am a scholar and historian (teaching history for almost 20 years), and senior martial arts instructor. Antony's historical methodology is absolutely 100% correct and should be taken as scholarly and credible research and application. He has done an amazing job at presenting the historical information about the samurai/shinobi that is accurate and historically valid. We should all be thankful for the outstanding work that Antony has done and look forward to his further research endeavors. In the end, it is the truth that matter. Antony is providing the truth!
i would like to add one more thing in regard to the two recipes, the immune booster is for when you are coming down with a cold/flu etc... when covid initially hit i think it was people in Italy were using the immune booster recipe with success... you can drink the cleansing tea more regularly... i think the immune booster can also be taken regularly but i reserve the immune booster for flu season or when getting cold/flu symptoms... the cleansing tea cleans out the upper respiratory area among other benefits. in regards to the kenjutsu videos the demonstrators looked phenomenal in my eyes... their application of technique looked crisp.
I really liked these videos with demonstration! To be honest I have some kind of envy to the guys performing in the video. I probably wouldn't have enough passion and discipline to practice and perform this all. It's really good! Also performance of the guy with hair reminded me a lot of actor that played Mussashi in Mussashi (2003) serial. So yeah! Thanks a lot!
forgive me Antony for so many comments on this lol i just want to make sure that you and anyone interested in the cleansing tea know to rinse mouth out with water to avoid staining the teeth... though from what ive seen in a video of you talking about bringing back home a Japanese tea pot shows me you guys have experience with drinking tea so you might already know about this but for anyone who isn't a tea drinker and would like to start incorporate the cleansing tea into their routine to rinse with water after... have a blessed day Antony! best of luck on your home project! look forward to hearing a successful completion so you can kick back relax with the family and get fully back to your Great Work!
You did a reeeally good job A.C. Your to be commended for ALL that hard research. What i have learned from following you since 2015 is the importance of 'knowing' the lineage of any martial art you take interest in. This way you know your not getting some watered down version. I still teach in the San Fran bay area. And most schools are charging 160.USD per month!!! And they suck!!! LOL! I am not kidding you. I came from the 70s. And I tell you, our green belts back then would blow the majority of these black belts in this time off the mat!! I mean you got guys out here teaching stuff that they cant even do!!!! Seriously. But I digress. Yes lineage is very important. Afterall if your paying big bucks to train, vet your school, vet your instructor. Dude cops an attitude, just turn and walk out.
before everyone starts offering me insult for saying that i thought the demonstrators looked phenomenal in my eyes i should've specified that certain techniques that were demonstrated like the cuts at the wrist and neck looked clean... upon reviewing the video i can see why some koryu practitioners might call some of what was shown sloppy, for example that one part in the video where the main demonstrator charges while alternating the bokken up and down in front of him... combat gets sloppy... one thing we all have to deal with is wondering how effective our arts truly are in life or death situations... do we bring back duels to the death? lol to all koryu practitioners it is good to put the content under a microscope, it will only help the refinement of the art. It isn't what you say but how you say it my brothers and sisters.
This series was fascinating as you try and put hands of historical Japanese sword combatives. Some of the finest work to date. An insight to what might have been for sure.
good morning Antony! i noticed you had a continous cough in some of your videos so i want to pass on two recipes to you that i highly recommend, both are potent... IMMUNE SYSTEM BOOSTER 3liters of water 4 cloves of garlic (smash and let them sit for ten minutes before boiling them) 2 whole onions (chopped into pieces) 3 lemons (chopped in pieces with skin) 1 piece ginger 3-4 centimeters Put all ingredients together and boil for 15-20 minutes then strain and start drinking. Always drink it warm and keep it refrigerated. 2-4 glasses a day depending on how you feel. Cleansing Tea 2 Cups water, 1 teaspoon each of rosemary, chamomile, oregano, mint. heat up water in a pot, add ingredients, let sit for a bit, then pour tea into a cup using a strainer. I hope you are NOT allergic to any of these ingredients!
i briefly reviewed Antony's video titled this is how samurai fought... i will go over it again in full later i just wanted to look for a quick example of an excellent display of technique and an example of sloppiness... i noticed the main demonstrator after applying one of the techniques wobbling on the foot a little bit but regained balance after the technique is applied which adds to my point that combat gets sloppy... i settled on the part of the video at 3:20 - 3:51 where i thought the technique was superbly executed... so im sticking to my guns that these demonstrators are exceptional kenshi... if that is still unacceptable then i guess we need to get the top two kenshi in the world to do these demonstrations for us lol
just found this video, thank you for the answer about the kata vs bunkai in katoriryu. i wonder if you're interested in meeting kuroda tetsuzan, since he seem to have a lot of knowledge and experience in different ryuha. or the teacher from asayama ichidenryu, he sounds like a very openminded person and knows different etymology of sword terms like tsurugi, katana, tachi etc. if you ask them about this matter without revealing the name of ryuha, maybe they can give different perspectives about it.
All kata are conceptual movement, written in the shortest form possible for the best transmission. Every Kata will be slightly different based on the person performing it.
I don't think you're understanding what your Shinkage ryu critics are actually saying, because none of them were saying that the ryuha was unchanged. If anything, the biggest critic was outright saying it! If anything, the crux of their arguments seemed to be how sloppy the two gentlemen in the video looked reenacting the kata, how their timing was off, and how exaggerated they looked, which, apparently, "isn't how it's done in any branch of Shinkage ryu", NOT that what was demonstrated wasn't technically what was written in the documents. If you demonstrated a video of jujutsu techniques, and they were done with exaggerated, slow movement, and then said that it was "Gracie/Brazilian jiujitsu, because you're working from the jujutsu densho of Kito ryu and Carlos Gracie Sr's demonstrations", I'd straight up tell that it isn't BJJ and that you're just doing sloppy jujutsu. 🤷🏻♂️
My point stands. This version has not been done before and most people think they are done well. Strangely only shrinkage ryu people think they are bad. Surely students of the school would be excited to see the old ways brought back. But they are not. Only they believe they are sloppy based on the incorrect idea of how formal they thought samurai fought.
@@AntonyCummins Probably because it's THEIR ryuha, is why they think it's NOT done well??? And the movement IS sloppy, I'm not even a practitioner of koryu and I can see it.
@@AntonyCummins Dude the people who "think they're done well" AREN'T koryu practitioners, let alone Shinkage Ryu kenshi. Fart as I can see none of them are kenshi at all. It's like saying "9 out of 10 dentists agree that my oboe playing skills are out of this world!" C'mon man...
Only one person knows what corespondance Anthony has had and that’s Anthony. Sounds like the argument changes as things are proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Carbon copy of the ninjitsu fiasco.
@@Pointyish Uhhh, it's not like the ninjutsu fiasco though. There was criticism of the Bujinkan for decades, but it was mostly confined to web forums and the martial arts world; The Bujinkan was otherwise considered THE "historical ninjutsu", and any questioning on the authenticity of their ninjutsu was met with alleged quotes from the Shoninki and the Bansenshukai, which at the time weren't translated into English and published to the public. Nobody in the West could confirm or deny those quotes because nobody was able to actually read the Shoninki or Bansenshukai. So Antony struck gold with historical ninjutsu research... because historical ninjutsu research practically didn't exist and the Bujinkan was propagating pop culture ninja.
i mean, i enjoyed your content when i first found it, but when i later found out about all your haters, it triggered my post-ironic hipster delight, and it makes your content even better 😛😛😛😛
Regarding all of the stupid bickering.... The simple solution: JSA needs to follow the path of HEMA and do some serious sparring (gekken); ideally with steel blunts and HEMA-grade gear. I'm sick and tired of the armchair experts who fancy themselves to be more knowledgeable or more correct about swordsmanship without ever having put themselves of their theories to the test. I'll grant that they may or may not be more knowledgeable amateur historians or something along those lines. But swordsmanship is about combat, no matter what Edo-period philosophies were added on later to justify the relevance of rhe samurai arts during peace time. Bottom line, either put up or shut up. You could be whatever sensei or soke or x-dan of whatever ryuha. I don't care. It's embarrassing that anyone does. At the end of the day, if what you've practiced doesn't work in practice against resisting opponents, then you're just wasting time performing elaborately choreographed dances. And if what you're doing doesn't "work" to your advantage at least some majority of the time, then the chances are that you and your much-hallowed "lineage" of senseis are also getting things wrong. Seriously. Get your heads out of the clouds and stop the name-dropping and showing off your training experiences. It's super cringey. Get some gear and spar. If you aren't willing to put what you're doing to the test against a resisting opponent, then everything you have going on is irrelevant and useless.
If you present clear evidence and it is rejected you don't have basis for a conversation. These people are trolls. Best to ignore them. You will never be able to convince everybody. All we need is the evidence. People will make up their own mind after that.
Dude, it has been beyond incredible to watch ye double, then triple, now quadruple down on bad points and now mischaracterize the counterarguments. I certainly didn't, and I don't recall anyone else making the argument that the techniques didn't change. I'm fairly certain I flat out admitted it. But what I did say is that yer fixation on what ye think the text says the techniques are MISSES THE POINT OF WHAT KORYU ARE AND HOW THEY'RE TRAINED. I'm fairly certain I said again and again and again, that ye are looking at the wrong thing to understand these arts. While there is "The Kata", technical aspects of the techniques are fluid in the interest of passing on the principle the technique is meant to impart. By the gods the whole bit where he talks about Kuden, I'm gobsmacked. Ye have no idea what yer talking about. Was there a time when these techniques mechanically sorta resembled what ye did? Maybe. But when I said yer models weren't doing Yagyu Shinkage Ryu it's because they don't do what Yagyu Shinkage Ryu does, and what it DOES is part of those oral traditions yer so readily dismissive of. I'd said it before, but when Aisu Ikosai called his style "Shadow School" he didn't pick the name out of the air because he thought it sounded cool. The Kage (Shadow) in Shinkage Ryu (New Shadow School) that Kamiizumi kept going, that Yagyu inherited, that we still have today is in reference to something very specific which yer videos don't demonstrate at all. The underlying logic that makes something Shinkage Ryu (which can be seen across the various lines, even ones that diverged centuries ago) is absent in what ye've cobbled together here. Part of the comedy of this is that in many of Matsudaira's I don't really have any problem getting at least the broad strokes of how Owari Yagyu still does the techniques in most cases. But then as someone in that tradition I also know what I'm looking at. Again yer problem using this stuff is that it generally wasn't meant to be instructional or if it was, it was study aids to people already in the system and not meant to be useful to outsiders. The idea that yer claiming to have reconstructed a style which is still around and going strong by fixating on descriptions of how it may have been done while gleefully ignoring even the fact that there IS an underlying logic to the ryu would be amusing if the hubris of it wasn't so annoying. I mentioned this before but since it's relevant I'll repeat it here. Over the years, I've learned a half dozen ways of doing every technique. Setting aside the omote and ura versions of things which are often WILDLY technically different even if they're conceptually bound, I know lots of different ways of doing everything. Now it has happened over the years where I'll teach Itto Ryoudan and then a couple months later show a different version and someone will go "that's not what you showed last time!" Well no, but this is also Itto Ryoudan and we're working on this today, so do this." Sometimes, I or my sensei will teach a version of a technique that would be technically incorrect anywhere else but I want the person to do it so they can overcome a bad habit they have. It has happened that time has gone on and a teacher forgot he adjusted it only to see the person still doing the adjusted technique years later and going "hey, why're ye doing it like that?" only to be told it was how THEY showed it to them and then it's like "oh right, cuz yer cutting arc was off and I wanted ye to open up more. Well yer cutting arc is better now so here's how it actually goes." (I joke, usually they say "I don't know who showed ye that but it wasn't me. In fact it's impossible I EVER would have shown it like that!" On one occasion when I was training in Japan my Sensei's Sensei wanted to work on Chotan Ichimi. I showed him what I knew, he was like "ah, do it like this" and showed me a version I'd never seen before. I went back to my hostel, spent all week working on it then when I saw him the next week we did Chotan Ichimi again and he was like "where did ye see that? No do it like this" and proceeded to do it like I'd done it the previous week. To be fair though he may have also been busting my balls.) Admittedly this can be frustrating from time to time, but if yer gonna get anywhere in these arts alot of time they require a degree of fluidity in thinking and being able to just roll with all the different stuff yer told. Getting hung up on "NO! THIS ISN'T THE WAY I REMEMBER IT!" or "I SAW YER NOTES AND THEY SAY THIS!" or whatever is missing the point of the training and what it's trying to do.
you bring up alot about how scrolls were tampered with for outsiders... is your teacher japanese? are you japanese? if not wouldn't you guys be considered outsiders? how do you know they didn't withhold the true art from foreigners? have you pressure tested your art? ofcourse how can we really know our arts will work in a life or death situation... do we bring back duels to the death to find out? im just busting your balls lol... on a side note i will repeat that it isn't what you say but how you say it... so much needless friction can be avoided by choice of words.
@@GHOSTofYOSHIMITSU I don't believe I said they were tampered with at all. I said they weren't written to be instructional (which the Shinkage Ryu Heiho Mokuroku wasn't) or they weren't meant for outsiders. Also no, I'm not Japanese but my instructor lived there for many years & went back constantly & his instructor(s), who I also had the great pleasure to train with, was.
