Tai sabaki: I found that if I'm nervous or uptight, for whatever reason, I have little 'unconscious' control over my body. Distance, need I say more? Too close, dead.

Obviously, if your timing is off, your uke 'feels' what you are doing (not hiding your intent comes to mind also, but I'm talking about timing here) and makes adjustments to their attack. How many times have we been 'cut' in the beginning because once we got past the initial cut, we thought we were safe? I'd like to add distance and timing to the mix.

I agree with you on the principles you bring up first: calmness, smoothness, not revealing intention and staying alert. Somewhat out of boredom and also because I think I missed it the first time around. unarmed situation is just a moment in time between each person's accessing of further weapons - their own, their opponent's, or the environment - another thing to keep in mind.Ĭlick to expand.Thought I'd reopen this thread. strikes to vitals on head/neck/arm/hand locations, and then disarm with joint-reversal or whatever, etc. In like a kenjadori situation, attacker in daijodan cuts down, but the cut is evaded to the side, what does the attacker think? 'got 'em, nope missed 'em, cut again.' as the unarmed defender, you can't wait for this thought process to continue, you must defeat the attacker already assuming that the one armed is going to cut again, so that's why the immediate taking of a safe space, then disabling the attacker's abilities (e.g. I like their methods very much when it comes to muto waza. The gyokko and koto styles of unarmed defense are like the bread and butter of taijutsu, i think. This makes it even harder as the unarmed defender to survive such a situation like in the mutodori scenario.Īs the armed attacker, you are going to have certain assumptions depending on your depth of strategy. It is important to have the proper perspective whether you are the one that is armed vs the one that is unarmed, e.g. Well i guess that if i have cut, he counters with wateva and tries to disarm me, id hope maby i could c or feel a point where he has left a opening in where maby i could attack with tai jutsu? to get control again and make a cut? or maby use my smaller sword? (forgotten name wakasashi? spelling?) guess it depends on the type of counter he is performing.Īs i said im not a very high ranked person, so if iv said silly things or am makeing no sense lemme know so we can discuss it!! or he will close the distance cing ive hesitated and disarm me from inside my effective cut distance. the person is oviously going to try and invite my cut yes? so that wen i have cut i think i have cut him the evasion is that close! it is tricky though i think because knowing that, wen ski (is it?) is exposed i am stuck at whether to attck or not knowing that if i do, unless he makes a mistake and gets cut in half, we will be in the next stage where he is trying to disarm kill me. as from the perspective of swordsman, just say i was in dajodan no kamae. Im still young in training so wat ever i say might b way off, but we do alot of mutodori. Henka (variations) found during practice of muto dori kata Use of atemi (strikes), and gyakugi (joint-reversals) to effect a disarm Tai-sabaki and kurai dori (body control, evasion, use of kamae, etc.) I'd like to hear some other views on the following aspects of muto dori: The principles I try to focus on most are calmness, smoothness, not revealing intention, and staying alert to possible counters from uke. The basic taihenjutsu mutodori kamae kata is a good one to do nearly every training session, but what about other kata, say from gyokko ryu chu- & ge-ryaku no maki? What are some of the usual mutodori training the rest of you ninja's partake in? There was also some brief, in passing discussion of evasion on this thread:

I did a search and found some discussion in the general Q&A forum:

I've been working on this aspect of taijutsu training a lot lately.

Muto dori sabaki gata