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Tuesday night...

: fried_chicken; July 8th, 11:08

Current Mood:: cheerful

Iaido was good last night, Keith the usual sensei -- and the only person I know that can switch betweem fluent japanese and a broad Yorkshire accent -- was up some scafolding reroofing his house which meant an evening of free practice and a rare chance to work through each of the 12 Seitei Kata one after another, before moving onto a couple of the old form Koryu.

As Keith reminds us so often that we're tempted to get it on a t-shirt for him each kata should be one fluid motion with changes of pace and I'm definitely starting to see the transitions smooth between it all.

Got into an interesting conversation with one of the guys there through when I found out he does Kyudo (Japanese archery) and is heading over to the International Seminar in Hungary in a couple of weeks.

Tags: iaido

( 8 comments — Leave a comment )

gold_dust84

2009-07-08 11:52 am (UTC)

Random question, do you know anywhere that does European sword training? Not so much fencing, more sword and buckler type stuff.

fried_chicken

2009-07-08 12:44 pm (UTC)

No I don't, sorry.

I remember them doing some at the Royal Armouries in Leeds before, think it was a one day or couple of day course in it for £30-£40 but that was a few years back. Could be worth dropping across an email to them though and seeing if they plan on doing one again this year, or might have any info on one as some of their staff use that style for demos and they've got to have learnt it from somewhere.

Just been having a bash around Google to try and pick something up for you on it and no real joy.

fried_chicken

2009-07-08 12:45 pm (UTC)

Or you could drop these guys a line and see if they know of a similar thing up North

http://forums.gumtree.com/about362879.html

fried_chicken

2009-07-08 12:59 pm (UTC)

Did come across some British Federation for Historical Swordplay (www.bfhs.org) who do have a list of groups or teachers.

Really nothing at all in the North West though, only one I could find was www.sssleeds.org.uk because one of their contacts from the BFHS site was listed in Cheshire.

nicnac

2009-07-08 01:02 pm (UTC)

Out of interest, how does one pronounce Iaido?

fried_chicken

2009-07-08 01:10 pm (UTC)

Now you're asking.

I is never pronounced as in "sight" but like it in in "machine" or "magazine" so it's more an 'ee' sound

Ai is "ah ee" do when you say it if it rhymes with eye and sky then you're on the right track.

D is pronounced as it is in English

and O is always pronounced as in "roleplaying" or "sold"