Tanto Kata

so..

I saw alot of weapons (& empty hand) kata last weekend at the wakarishin annual comp.

There were the usual katana, nunchucks, sai , bo, jo etc. which was really cool to see then out came some of the weapons I have no experience of; Naginata, iron fan? but it got me thinking..how come there is little to no Tanto kata?

Surely it was a readily available and common weapon?

 

Because the bjja has no connection to japan so all the weapon work is made up.

 

fair enough that may explain why I didn't see any but not why I can't find much?

are there any good weapon kata resources?

 

Koryu.



Or you could have a quick look at the embu on YouTube. Don't expect to learn anything in the way of physical skills though.

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If you want tanto or short blade work then look into kodachi kumiuchi, kogusoku and various old school ryu containing jujutsu.

Takenouchi-ryu would be a nice place to start.

The tanto, short blade would be used hand in hand with grappling techniques, there is plenty of kata but I don't think it's what you have in mind at the moment.

 

For Tessen look at:

Takenouchi-ryu
Katayama-ryu koshi no mawari
Kiraku-ryu
Ikkaku-ryu
Araki-ryu
Hoten-ryu
Kukishin-ryu
Shibukawa-ryu
Kurama Yoshin-ryu
Yagyu Shingan-ryu
Kashima Shin-ryu

Thanks to Steve Delaney (Kogusoku) for the list.

If you can see some tessen techniques by these schools then I'd wager you'd notice a difference to what you saw in the iron fan demos.

 

Actually you'll probably notice a difference in all the weapons.

 

Your using the wrong terms, see deans posts.

 

As Dean already mentioned, you're just not looking in the "right places" (those can be harder to find perhaps, so no worries)..

My school has a load of "tanto" waza...Although I wouldn't use the term "tanto" to describe the blade we use for them....

There are 25 kata using the knife in the omote, 53 in the ura, and about 15 in the ko-ura sets...Covering a fairly wide range of situations with a shorter than katana length blade...

There aren't many videos of it, because it's not aimed at teaching without having a teacher to show you, but there are videos out there, and they can be found with a search I suspect...

Interesting to watch I'd say, but unless you train in the school, not entirely "useful" perhaps..

 

This helps a lot, thanks gents

I'm getting far more searches results now..also some escrima and Kempo stuff which is an interesting contrast