This Montsuki is an uwagi with very wide sleeves and heraldic symbols on chest, back and sleeves. A white undercoat (juban or shitagi) is usually worn under the gi and at official affairs the montsuki is worn. The most accepted colours are black and white. The specific folds in the hakama represent six Confucian values: trust, love, harmony, love for your parents, reliability (front) and honesty (back). The outfit for practising Iaido is a traditional Japanese male costume: a long wide pair of trousers (hakama) and a thin jacket (gi). The Japanese concept of iai expresses this flexibility of body and mind under different circumstances and in harmony with the surroundings. As soon as the danger passes, the sword will be returned to the scabbard in the predicated manner and the iaidoka will return, concentrated and alert, to his starting position. The iaidoka can be sitting, standing or walking. The kata can be located in or around buildings, in the open or in the middle of a crowd. Each scene has got the following pattern: As a reaction to an attack by one or more fictional opponents one draws his sword and the action is converted into a fast counterattack. kataĪlthough the iaido kata seem to be one fluent motion, they can be divided into four different phases: The drawing of the sword and delivering the first strike (nukitsuke), deliver one or more deadly strikes (kiritsuke), cleaning the sword (chiburi) and returning the sword to the scabbard (noto). Is usually considerably less, although they positively exist. In budoĭisciplines featuring two sparring opponents, the emphasis is on kata Techniques are performed with a live blade and are all lethal.

It is also the only feasible training method, for the Oldest martial traditions of Japan, which emerged about five hundred This typical training method stems from the They have been formalized in so-called kata (prearrangedįorms), each with its specific scenario, and always beginning and ending Match, the older iai comprises the authentic and tried techniques ofĭefence and counterattack of the individual warrior, including drawing

Opponents fight each other using specially designed bamboo sticks in a As opposed to kendo, a derived combat sport where two armoured Samurai's premier weapon, and it still represents the soul of ancient With itsĬharacteristic curved blade, the katana eventually became the Iaido emerged from the classic sword art of the samurai ( iaijutsu) andĬonsists of simulated fights using a Japanese sword (katana).

Iaido technique