You Don't Need Anything to Fight a Katana 

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Something to understand about empty handed techniques against weapons is that they are techniques of desperation, not of choice. You learn these because they increase your likelihood of survival to something above zero, not because they guarantee victory. In most cases, even with training, the person without a weapon will die.

If only I could go to Japan and meet Seki Sensei, he's such an awesome man, I would love to hear his stories, and learn his lessons

The final kata has to be practiced very, very carefully. In a real fight, as you put it, he would be trying to cut you into little pieces with a sword. That's pretty horrific, too.

The second I saw the thumbnail I was very sceptical and thought this is gona be same BS knife defence videos, but I was so reliefed once I saw explanation at 1:55. Really appreciate it being honest and clear that those are very specific techniques.

It is VERY difficult and dangerous to try and combat an armed opponent when you are unarmed, practically impossible if your opponent has had a decent amount of training with their weapon, but still, having some techniques to deal with these situations is better than nothing.

Let’s try pressure testing this with a whiffle ball bat and see how many times the open hand person would have ended up with one arm.

Much respect to Seki Sensei. I have found it near impossible to perform successful evasion wile taking two steps at full speed. There is only time for a body shift and one foot to move to successfully evade the sword. Hope that makes sense. Thank you for the insight into your Ryu-ha. 🙏🏼

Simply beautiful. Asayama Ichiden Ryu is AMAZING !!!

Thank you Seki Sensei. It gives me a deeper understanding of irimi.

I've been waiting for this one! Very excited to see part two 👍 Thank you all so much 🙏

Mu to dori is dangerous, but if you get there first ( out of the way of the blade) is paramount to living or dying. I guess the saying of “ in the blink of the eye “ is not a myth. It would be a hard lesson learned. I absolutely love your videos. You study old koryu. This I very grateful for you sharing. I also study. Unfortunately, Japan is ( financially,and temporarily) out of my reach for training. Much love and respect to you and your family. By the way, congratulations on your new baby!!! Thanks for sharing 🙏

None of that would work in the real world against someone trying to kill you. If someone’s attacking you with a weapon and you unarmed just do yourself a favor and run away.

Ah, shades of tachi-dori (also jo-dori & kaiken-dori which they call tanto-dori) from my Aikido days. As with the empty-hand waza of Aikido, it's all about kuzushi ('balance-breaking'). Most interesting is the idea of irimi, that is, 'entering' - seems counter-intuitive (and a bit scary), but it's the shortest distance, hence the quickest to do; however, the blending of motions to properly achieve this is always a challenge. Nice presentation; looking forward to Part 2. And that last scary kata reminds me of 'classical' Tae Kwon Do from my undergraduate days as a technique of self-defense - I hear that they teach nothing like this anymore.

Mutō dori waza can be considered sutemi waza on one hand, but also kenjutsu gokui on the other hand. Those who wrote skeptical comments might be forgetting that Asayama Ichiden ryū originated from the battlefield and one’s armor makes such waza less dangerous.

Amazing! Keep up the great work ❤

I'm glad you. In the last few months, I texted your comment. I don't know how to without weapons.

Really great kata, but you can also see how the uchidachi almost stops his swing even before the shidachi actually touches him.

Excellent video. Very interesting and worthwhile video.

Gokenin Zankuro certainly showed me this! He fights off a bunch of ronin bare handed multiple times!

Wow. First time I've seen this channel. Amazing! Will watch more of your videos.

I love getting to see this and learn because I'm incapable of getting a formal teacher it's amazing to see a actual teacher carefully showing movements in a way I can actually learn from them

Thank you for this, I will use this for my personal study.

Thanks for the video.

Love you guys. Respect and laughter. No one above a other, the unity and sense of mutual elevation ❤️❤️❤️!

Interesting movements without a weapon, very similar movements to my style. Thank's for sharing.

Thanks for sharing your mad skills brother ❤

Wonderful! Thank you! ❤️

Thanks for your teaching , ❤❤❤❤

If you can cover the distance of the katana to the oponent fast enough without being sliced or stabbed it will work.

To train these disarms can be of use. In many sparring session (against resisting opponents) you get a chance for a disarm. (you get into close distance when both move forward, or you get onto the opponents side etc etc...) So this ends with one fighter on the grounds, or even better ...with both swords in the hand of one fighter ;-) So, it helps to have some weapon less drills trained!!

Thank you so much for your excellent content. Be safe

Aikido contains like a thousand techniques for these, it's important to be prepared to get unarmed during battle. (The first attack type new apprentices train is called something like Shoumenuchi)

Thanks to the video! I really wanted to see those bare hand techniques!😊 in "Heiho Kadensho", Yagyu Munenori once told that "Muto Dori" is the most Advanced Technique a Warrior can practice... its too dangerous even to the elite samurai

Increíbles habilidades 👍🏼

Thank you!

Oooooooooo! Yagyu school technique of " no sword" techniques!! Well, similar ideas at least. Shogo San, if you're interested, look into it, you'll surely find some documentation about those "saidai no ôgi" from Yagyu Ryu . Thank you for sharing more if those amazing but very hard to use unarmed défense techniques!!

When training with BO im always aware of the breaks in flow that provide opportunity for unarmed strikes. This is because i walk with my bo as a walking stick, and if anything around here i am to face its daggers. So keeping the advantage of constant reach and the disorienttion effects of the flow is critical. great video. Risky moves, but good to know for niche circumstances. this is why i like krav maga. its about uning the environment and the combatents tools against them in a fight

Fantastic 💕. I think these katas work better at close range.

Works as a movie choreography, but the average Joe with no training would hurt the master badly, even if he was in a great shape.

In theory very help Thank you The only problem is the speed of your opponent and his anticipation of your movement as he has the sword

Classic 👍🙏 Take care. Stay safe 🙏 John and Kate

Contrary to what hollywood would have you believe that movement in the last kata isn't that deadly. However you can still get whiplash if you do it fast and that can take a very long time to heal.

That’s a hell of a dangerous game to play.

I love this teacher, he is an expert

Go on sensei seki and love the channel shogo

"You Don't Need Anything to Fight a Katana" - of course not, you'll be dead. 🤣

I'm curious to know if there are any mutou kata against tantou or wakazashi. That would be very useful to learn and could be useful to know as knife attacks are more common in Japan.

very nice

cool weapon-less techniques against the katana. seki sensei is as cool as ever!

I was sure in the last one he'd be wrapping his arm around the guy's arms, like in Fiore. Interesting variation!

Thanks

As long as the person stops moving after their initial attack....

I've been practicing Ju Jitsu for 12 years now and we learn these techniques occassionaly . Its my favourite part although it bears no relevance to modern self defence it is fun to learn and big respect must be shown to the danger of a sword

拳と腕の三角形に腕を入れ、相手を倒す型は、本来は顔(目・鼻)を狙った当身と想像しています。 そう考えるととても恐い技ですね。

Amazing video, greetings from Venezuela both sensei; domo arigato

I wanna see him pull that of in Sparring, 3 rounds of 10 Minutes each, against multiple opponents, but fighting them one at a time.

That last one gav me chills😮‍💨😮‍💨

So if long and short are the same, then anything you do with a longer sword, or a longer staff (if i understood correctly) you should also be capable of doing the same with the shorter variation of that same weapon

under the up-raised sword is death, step in to heaven, old muto dori quote from along time ago...

Lol hey ,that music, bit like Mortal Combat :-)

Thanks for this! Now I can attempt to survive an average day in Britain :)

This skills are useful when the opponent is using only one skill the opponent is using only up side to down up to down slash when opponent use only 1 strike you can use this all skills to him

It's understandable for the third technique to be taken carefully... I figured that even if the opponent is a real enemy, killing could be really unnecessary. Also, all these tricks may depend on the reflexes in case the opponent can swing a sword as fast as lightning

I had to look up why so many techniques I've seen demonstrated is similar to Aikido. The ryuha was originally from Aizu domain. The same area as the relocated Takeda clan that would pass down what would be called Daito Ryu. Since I've never really accepted that Daito Ryu is older than late Muromachi period (the period the Takedas relocated from Kai), the similarities to another Aizu ryuha is evidence to me of Daito's timeframe stemming from the Sengoku period and not from Minatomo Yoshimitsu's era..

He has perfect technique

❤Thanks .

Swords ⚔️ are a real big problem out there!

What if in the first "bending" of the katana the person holding the katana quickly reverses the lower hand's grip, having a short leverage and blocking the rotation from behind, the upper hand being the pivot point? Is it still too weak to stop the easy stealing of the sword? Or is it too quick of a situation to do that? The leg sweep reminds very subtly of osoto gari. Just way more minor movements. The kuzushi and position is already there. I find it great how much emphasis is put on the head twist being extremely dangerous by martial arts, but at the same time youtube is full of chiropractic videos where they yank and twist the head and spine in the most forceful ways. Makes me shiver every time knowing how little you need to do to cause lethal consequences.

Nice. Please make a video of Jujutsu.

It all looks so easy as a choreographed scene, but in a real fight, not so sure. The sword is so sharp it may sever his hand.

I learned similar moves while practicing Hap Ki Do in Korea. Now I'm just waiting for someone to pull a sword in a 7-eleven.

I recently retired. I'm hoping to travel to Japan in the next couple of years. Would love to train in a koryu type of Iaido sword training. I also like the idea of remodeling an abandoned country house. Of course Kyoto would be nice to, it's more important to find the right dojo.

The teacher shows technique in slower motion to demonstrate, but dose not show same movements at higher speeds,, in order to preform those techniques you better have super correct Flash timing !! Once again, every pre- planed technique looks good when its choreographed between teacher & student.

So does everyone train katana in the right hand? I am left hand dominant and prefer this way; it seems like a lefty would have some advantage when facing ppl who are used to right handed fighters (?) What do you think?

Well I hope the people who do try this at home do this with little resistance as possible so you can keep you and your partner safe while still practicing to get more skilled at the technique.

i want to see how he does against someone who is actually trying ti hit him...with a wood sword ofc xD but its would be interesting to see how fast and fluid he can moove.

one issue i find with this is that the opponent waits until you get too close to him... what about if he strikes early ?

I Don't advise anyone to try this while I have a Kitana . But then again when faced with a life or death we do what we have to. Im not too convinced of this because of my basic skill with a Kitana death is eminent🙏👊

I still love the way and logic behind how they fall, it looks so unnatural to me, and yet it's so natural to them it's as if they don't even think to enter that position

Insane impressive. Cant nothing about this. But it looks extremely hard. /Sweden

Would like to see him do something against a resisting opponent

Show me a good time, Jack!

You need two things: Balls of Steel.

I'm nearly 40 and cannot run very fast. These techniques are helpful to buy time and distance

whats the kata music at 5:55 please, i checked the creators youtube n cudnt find

In Ninpo, we train both sides equally. Good luck for the people lending us a weapon "on the difficult side" ;-) Shikin Haramitsu Daikomyo

Shogo would this be a good time to ask about your fingers?

"You don't need anything to fight a katana" Well, you do need to be brave 😅

The only way these will possibly work is if the person was very light. Meaning no gut light, athletic, and extremely fast.

Yeah, I still want to be the one with the katana or a good pair of nikes.

I could see my experience with Filipino Martial Arts being handy here. We commonly practice empty hand against an armed opponent.

90% examples of videos mostly did on upper slash,. I haven't seen any video how to block left or right slice, or diagonal slice, with or without katana

Asayama ichiden ryu taijutsu is very powerful.

2023 Suzuki Katana 1000 for me thanks😁

"The length of the weapon is irrelevant to a master" 1000 male pornstars might disagree, the other 99.99% of the male population cries in relief!

How does the Kata of the throw end? It makes no sense to throw someone on the ground and let him stand up again still with his sword... My guess is that he committed an arm break, or perhaps something nastier...

muto dori. you should train with some bujinkan guys over there in japan.

En mi opinon la prioridad deberia ser controlar la espada

You might have a low probability of success with such techniques, but a low probability is not 0 and just because it might not work doesn't mean you might not be forced into a situation where you have no option but to try and make something like that work, therefore it makes sense to train for that situation, the ideal situation might involve running away or the opponent being deterred or ideally you might pull out a firearm and win decisively that way but just like in golf, you play the ball as it lies.