JAPANESE SWORD MARTIAL ART (iaido) MEADOW CENTRE DUMBARTON
Description : 03 Mar, 2023
YUSHINKAN IAIDO DOJO, MEADOW CENTRE, DUMBARTON (Tuesdays 6pm until 9pm)
Iaido, pronounced ee-eye-do, is a Samurai sword art. The idea is to instantly draw and cut using a sword (known as a katana). As a martial art, it is more about mental and physical discipline: the emphasis is on technique and training focuses on kata, which are set forms. We wear hakama (loose, pleated trousers) and a keiko gi (a training jacket).
When you first start practising, you use a bokken -- a wooden sword. You use it to train: you can attack to prove that an opponent's block is working. As your confidence increases, you move on to an iaito, which is a metal sword without any sharp edges. This allows you to learn the dynamics of a sword safely. Then, as you progress further, you move on to a shinken, which is the sharp sword. This is only permitted on certain occasions.
The benefits of Iaido are mainly mental. A common impression is that it is a physical challenge but you have to be able to train your mind as well as your body. It sharpens the mind and it helps when you are under pressure at work: because it is a discipline, it trains you to keep calm.
Iaido gives you a feeling of satisfaction that you are progressing.There are six grades, though we don't have coloured belts like in karate. We grade at particular times during the year and in grading and competition, the judges look for correctness. You are looking for perfection in the physical and mental aspects of how you carry out manoeuvres.
People sometimes ask what you need to do before you start Iaido, but you don't need to train beforehand. Just go along and you will build up your fitness as you go. There is no need to be physically strong -- we've had guys at the club who have had knee operations. Iaido is accessible to men and women and juniors are also welcome.
I am the health and safety officer for the British Kendo Association. Day to day, it's mostly common sense. We have risk assessments: it's tight; everything is precise. In Samurai times, if you bumped into somebody, it would have been an instant fight, so we have inherited customs that are about being courteous. It's very much about safe procedures. Before training and at seminars [training events
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