Tsukamoto says if you practice kneeing a mitt, and then look at your opponent and try and knee them in the face it is difficult to hit, and it is easier for your opponent to read. But you know where your own head is, so just knee your own head with their head in between then it is easier to hit their face. This is partly because if your face is next to theirs then their face is closer so your knee can go straight up as opposed to forwards and up. I think that there is also a sort of reticence that prevents us from putting our knee in someone else's face. So first practice putting your own knee in your own face (about which you should have no reticence) and then put their face in between your face and your knee. Then he describes various secret techniques to get your knee in your opponents face, making this probably the best knee video on the planet.
Awesome... I can tell he is a good instructor because I understand what he is saying by his body language and gestures... I also can not speak Japanese. Osu!
traditionally in ancient Japan the floors were wooden in palaces and the Kenjutsu training halls of the samurai, it's just one of those things that are more based on Japanese cultural norms than anything else, and the gis are white to symbolise the white death garments the samurai used to where under his armour before battle to sybolise that he was ready to die in battle which was an honourable death for a Bushi (warrior).
Interesting vid,wish my Japanese was a bit better but you know what he is saying anyway,this seems to confirm what people that have meet him have told me that he is as nice a person as he is a fierce fighter the Budo ideal .
