Here's one that one of my new guys asked me about. Made my jaw drop ... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aACjm1IJyaM] Choson ryu[/ame]
After all the time he's spent swinging things in all the videos he's made I can't understand why he hasn't gotten any smoother. I mean I know he's terrible but seriously, if you just close your eyes and wing a stick around for thirty minutes a day, logic says eventually your feet will fall in line with your arms at least a little, right?
Just to keep the ball rolling...... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64C08moYxH8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64C08moYxH8[/ame]
Okay Steve, these are for you.... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzgdWRcqZvQ"]Cary Nemeroff Samurai Demostration at Kinokuniya Part 01 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z0jfOvvv0w"]Cary Nemeroff Samurai Demostration at Kinokuniya Part 03 - YouTube[/ame] (Don't know where part 2 is....) [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx1NMu_Ou_4"]Cary Nemeroff Samurai Demostration at Kinokuniya Part 04 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7T55-AqhJI"]Cary Nemeroff Samurai Demostration at Kinokuniya Part 05 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmnKf4NnOgQ"]Cary Nemeroff Samurai Demostration at Kinokuniya Part 06 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQtWo-11Mo"]Cary Nemeroff Samurai Demostration at Kinokuniya Part 07 - YouTube[/ame] So..... thoughts?
I cringed at the way he swung his sword like a damned rubber hose and the way he "clacked" the tsuba onto the koiguchi when he was doing noto. And you gotta love the "Domo arigato Mr. Roboto" movements. Pure unadulterated trash. I have to confess I watched part two. "look at me while I'm not looking at the sword!" He also mentions Nito waza. There are eight parts to this demonstration on youtube and most of them see him blabbing nonsense about the sword, his teacher and his ryuha in Okinawa and pronouncing "jutsu" incorrectly. His jujutsu in parts 7 & 8 are absoute BS by the way; No kuzushi, no proper kahanshin, shisei wasn't there, hyoshi was off the atemi were half-hearted. At the start of the jujutsu embu, he plonks his arms out to be grabbed - Noone does this. The teki takes the ware's wrists in an aggressive manner. The first techniques are just ripped off aikido techniques for the most part. Nemeroff also exercises no zanshin - After each technique, he turns his back on the teki, waiting for him to run around and grab his wrists again. When it gets to the tanto-dori section, he lets go of the teki's knife arm repeatedly. Big effin' no-no right there. In other words, awesome! :evil::bang::bang::bang::evil:
Just in case you are getting withdrawal symptoms..... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLF4wy5fsmQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLF4wy5fsmQ[/ame]
"please do not try this at home" bwahahahahahahahaha!!! the reason for not doing it at home is because you'll get laughed at and, later, lynched by drunks!
And just in case you want to see how tameshigiri is meant top be done.... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3nAuowwqhI"]Warrior Series Katana : Cold Steel Swords - YouTube[/ame]
How about a Katori Shinto-ryu rip-off merchant? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq4OUn3T15E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq4OUn3T15E[/ame]
Oh, Steve, that's an easy one to beat.... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfahVJjmgEo"]Iaijutsu In Lindsay Ontario, Canada. 2006. - YouTube[/ame] Eagle-eyed viewers may note that this is the same group, under the same instructor, who were stealing the kata of Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu a number of years ago as well.... hmm.
You mean these ones? :evil: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRmegFx7ki8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRmegFx7ki8[/ame]
Not as classy as this chappy! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZNbFFWeIU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZNbFFWeIU[/ame]
Good lord, Steve, how many of these do you have ready to put up?!? You know, if we're going to visit France, we really should stop in and see Juan Hombre, agreed? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEBFTPn_hN4"]Ninjutsu. Shinobiken. JUAN HOMBRE - YouTube[/ame] (I still can't believe he's actually the official representative for Shimizu Kenji's Yagyu Shingan Ryu Heiho group there....)
