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How to attack with the bokken
Happo GiriPracticing happo giri gives you full special awareness of the bokken, ..... Can you defend properly with your bokken or are you vunerable to any attack? or do you just rely on reactions and instinct.
When defending with the bokken, you'll find it easier than attacking as usually your opponent will telegraph his moves
Always remember that no two bokken's are the same, some bokken's are longer. Some are heavier. So when using a stranger's bokken, be prepared to adapt as your timing will be out.
Performing the happo giri is a good way to become one with your bokken, also becoming aware of spatial awareness is very important to training in bokken's, there are actually eight cuts to the happo giri the ninth cut is a return to the first position, each position gives you the correct distance from tip of bokken to the center of your posture telling you where you could make a strike, but also where you... also are vulnerable,
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Bokken Bokkens BokkensLearning to become one with your bokken takes a lot of time and repetitive cuts To improve .....
the happo giri can be learned in quite a short time, that is just the basic movements, then you begin to learn and understand the flow of the bokken and how with each of the eight cuts How you defend yourself in a circle. When transporting your bokken, you must do so with it fully covered, as you move it from dojo to dojo or from your home to a dojo as is in most countries It is against the law to carry an open weapon, which can be used readily. You must have a bag or a container. Nothing which allows you easy access to your bokken or Jo or tanto.
You will find in a bokken class You'll give it 100% concentration. So all the outside worries will be left outside Using your bokken for understanding how in Aikido we learn to throw the students, and is also a great aid to knowing where the techinque originated from.
With bokkens a good way to end a lesson is to finish as enthusiastic as you started.
Train Hard Train Focused Train Safe
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