Last night Mike and I started off with warm-ups and then before we started tenkan and irimi exercises, I brought out two bokkens and we practiced happo-undo and happo-gri (8-way cutting exercise). We then practiced the following techniques:
- yokomenuchi shihonage omote and ura
- yokomenuchi iriminage
- bokken tori yokomen strike shihonage omote and ura
- bokken tori yokomen strike irminage
The bokken tori or sword takeaway techniques comes from nage being unarmed and being attacked by uke's strike with the bokken. Part of the practice is overcoming the real fear of fast swinging sword that is coming for your neck and learning to not step away from the attack, but to spiral into uke, taking control of the hilt and then performing the technique to gain control and possession of the weapon. I also value how doing these techniques sharpens both uke and particularly nage's attention otherwise you have a real chance of getting hit with a fast moving wooden object or worse, injuring your training partner by hitting with your strike.
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