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Originally Posted by Skybird
I like that stuff, especially when they handle the sword not only via the grip, but holding the blade itself too, and using it more like a combat stick, or a spear. I reminds me of a technique that I learned too, and which was meant to enable using a katana even in the narrowest spaces like a lift cabin, that prohibit the ordinary fighting styles. Prefered of course is wide space, especially for a katana that is designed to hack and chop, not so much to stab and slice. but you CAN very effectively fight with such a long weapon in limited space.
Okay, they had not lift cabins in Japan back then, but you get the idea...  |
Thats a technique called 'half-swording'. You grasp the blunt portion of the blade near the guard to give greater power to a thrust or better control.
This site here is very good, has lots of info on swords and associated techniques
http://www.myarmoury.com/home.html