![]() Please feel free to contact us via email or on our various social media platforms if you would like to learn more about iaido!Īll music composed, arranged and produced by Antti Martikainen () However, we are enthusiastic and eager to learn and train more! Mistakes are expected as we are all new Iaido practitioners. Please note that this video is for entertainment purposes. The inclusion of the music is just for dramatic purposes and used inline of fair-usage. The RKC Iaido Members did an ENBU (demonstration) of the 1st 7 ZNKR Kata at their home dojo, the Rivonia Sports Club on 15 April 2021. Extracts from the European Kendo Federation (EKF) website In the larger sense Iai means the Way of Dwelling in Harmony: through endless practice by seeking harmony with the Universe." The modern significance of Iai is peace and tranquillity for human life. In other words, Iai is a training process toward human perfection, never of murderous intent, but peaceful-minded. Thus, you may understand why the Iai of old was called Saya-no-uchi - invincibility without drawing the sword. Victory in Iai is the non-revengeful heart and the cessation or conflict through not drawing the sword. Iai does not necessarily mean to cut an enemy, but rather to cut the enemy within yourself. ![]() Yet greater than technique is spiritual training. To master the art of the sword, he was convinced that if one of the two was missing perfection could not be obtained. Nakayama Hakudo, a very important Iaido master of the 20th century, regarded Kendo and Iaido as inseparable, comparing them to the wings of a bird. In unity with the same is the spirit of entering into the opponent's attack with harmonious sword and body action, to defeat the enemy through his psychological weakness. Iai is concerned with attack and defence in terms of Ma-ai (distance), Hasuji (the path of the sword stroke) and Te-no-uchi (grasping the Tsuka or the hilt of the sword). ![]() From kneeling, sitting, standing or walking, and being attacked from all sides, the swordsman had to anticipate, defend and retaliate. Iaido (way of drawing and sheathing the sword) is the art of cutting, thrusting and defending with the real sword (Katana) using diversity of applications against imaginary opponents. "Kendo students face each other in standing positions to determine victory or defeat wearing protective equipment (Bogu) and holding a bamboo sword (Shinai). ![]()
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