We are testing the man and his abilities, we only cut tatami, the katana I am using is the bushido by Paul Chen. The swing posture and speed are all factors in searching for the perfect cut
Hi Antony, I have done test cutting with bamboo, tatami mats, and pool noodles and bottles. I think in my case it is me testing my skill. Although I haven't really thought about it. There are official sword testers out there and I think Kaiso Obata is one. However I think when you buy a sword and you are going to cut with it for the first time, you are testing it. In Okinawa there is a master swordsman who specialises test cutting for any who is interested.
A formula 1 driver in an average car can out drive an average driver in a formula 1 race car. Testing the sword requires the swordsman’s technique to be perfect.
I have cut tatami mats before. I made excellent cuts and I would enjoy doing it again but with a wider variety of swords this time. Gunto wakazashi tanto if I find one I like odachi regular katana naginata and a couple of knives but that's far off in the future probably
from what my sensei of kenjutsu always said and from what i learned from japanase history books and documents tameshigiri we know today was only used to test blades and in fact the person who tested was not samurai but low ranking servants since samurai tested the blades on flesh , if fact if you train much tameshigiri that kinda lower your perfomance on kobudo (battojutsu, iaido and kenjutsu), on tameshigiri your cuts is very different from the cuts u do on kobudo , on tameshigiri you apply more strenght and do a bigger movement that on a fight would be useless and would open spots to the enemy, tameshigiri only became this famous because of the end of the samurai class after meiji restoration , since they didnt had a proper job anymore many of them held sword perfomance on public to earn money.
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We are testing the man and his abilities, we only cut tatami, the katana I am using is the bushido by Paul Chen. The swing posture and speed are all factors in searching for the perfect cut
The Hanwei Bushido is one of my favourites. It cuts bamboo and tatami well.
Hi Antony, I have done test cutting with bamboo, tatami mats, and pool noodles and bottles. I think in my case it is me testing my skill. Although I haven't really thought about it. There are official sword testers out there and I think Kaiso Obata is one. However I think when you buy a sword and you are going to cut with it for the first time, you are testing it. In Okinawa there is a master swordsman who specialises test cutting for any who is interested.
A formula 1 driver in an average car can out drive an average driver in a formula 1 race car. Testing the sword requires the swordsman’s technique to be perfect.
I have cut tatami mats before. I made excellent cuts and I would enjoy doing it again but with a wider variety of swords this time.
Gunto wakazashi tanto if I find one I like odachi regular katana naginata and a couple of knives but that's far off in the future probably
from what my sensei of kenjutsu always said and from what i learned from japanase history books and documents tameshigiri we know today was only used to test blades and in fact the person who tested was not samurai but low ranking servants since samurai tested the blades on flesh , if fact if you train much tameshigiri that kinda lower your perfomance on kobudo (battojutsu, iaido and kenjutsu), on tameshigiri your cuts is very different from the cuts u do on kobudo , on tameshigiri you apply more strenght and do a bigger movement that on a fight would be useless and would open spots to the enemy, tameshigiri only became this famous because of the end of the samurai class after meiji restoration , since they didnt had a proper job anymore many of them held sword perfomance on public to earn money.