[Ken] Kenjutsu with Selendrile
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I made a mistake, i forgot that i had previously worked with MockingBird aswell, didnt learn any techniques either, though the thread posts will explain why. Rexiis;
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Geez, you've been training in this for awhile. >.> Well, i'll see how you perform and then decide from there where we will go?
-throws you a bokken-
Indeed i have been haha
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Catching the bokken, i position it in both hands, right above the left, taking slightly wide stance with my right foot placed forward a foot behind my body, and my left foot half a foot infront of my body, pointing them slightly to the right along with my body placing me in general acutely diagonal posture towards my right (your left) side. Raising the bokken up to chest level both arms bent though the right a bit more to allow more powerful strikes.
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Catching the bokken, i position it in both hands, right above the left, taking slightly wide stance with my right foot placed forward a foot behind my body, and my left foot half a foot infront of my body, pointing them slightly to the right along with my body placing me in general acutely diagonal posture towards my right (your left) side. Raising the bokken up to chest level both arms bent though the right a bit more to allow more powerful strikes.
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I start by lunging forward by raising my left foot slightly and pushing off of the ground using my right, bringing the bokken up slightly then bringing it down with a hard swing striking your right shoulder, using the force genereted against the bokken after striking you to launch the bokken in a slightly wide manner above my head, bringing it down in an arching motion striking your left upperarm with a good amount of force whilst simultaneously stepping in with my left foot, which if the bokken were a real blade would cause the blade to lurch forward along with my forward-step which would slice even further into your arm. Once completing the strikes i move backwards a bit restoring my orginal posture and location that I began with.
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Nice job. Now approach me, pivot to either of my sides (left/right) and attack me from there.
Again i start by lunging forward in the same manner however this time rather than attacking you head on like before, I instead, when my left foot firmly plants onto the ground using it as a pivot point to turn my body towards my left side (your right), once almost completing the pivot i spring off of my left foot causing me to slingshot to right side (left from your pov), whilst keeping my body faced towards your side landing with my right foot first then my left foot behind my placing myself in a reversed form of my original stance, bringing the bokken up 1/4 th of a foot, then slamming down onto the back of your neck, once complete the strike i again pivot using my left foot to move backwards about a meter which would also once again place me into my original stance.
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Good!
I run towards you with both hands on my bokken. As I approach near you, I pull both of my arms to my left side as I draw back my bokken. I perform a forward thrust aimed at your gut (my bokken would horizontal), stepping forward with my right foot to increase the power of the thrust.
Seeing you start to run towards me drawing back your blade in what appears to be a thrusting posture rather than a swinging/slashing posture i brace my self be widening my stance a tad more whilst still keeping its form, allowing for more firmer foot placement, as you begin to step forward with your right leg and start the thrusting maneuver i start releasing my left hand off of the bokkens handle along with lightening my right hands grip, tapping the bottom of handle with my left hand and slightly pushing off with my right to cause the bokken to spin in place catching the handle with right hand (think drawing a sword from a sheath kind of grip) and bracing the would-be blade part of the bokken with my left, placing it on the left side of your bokken as you strike forward, i push against your bokken with mine throwing it out of its original intended path, then taking my left hand off of the blade and back onto the bottom of the handle quickly i lunge forward using my right foot. And then start spinning around you in an odd manner using your body as my path around you, coming to a halt with my left foot forward and my body facing your back, raising the bokken in the same manner as you had done by bring both arms back towards my left side, quickly i step in with my right foot and perform the thrusting maneuver aiming for the center of your spine once hitting the spot i retreate by spring off of my right foot a meter back and resume my original stance.
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Okay, so a thing about kenjutsu and taijutsu in general.. Long blocks of text make understanding a move much harder to do. So try this again and be more concise and clear. You can do the same thing with a lot less information.
As you start to run towards me raising your blade to your left side i prepare myself by taking a wider form of my stance, releasing the grip of my left hand and flipping the bokken in my right, then i brace my left hand against the would-be blade of the bokken as you start stepping in and striking with the awaited thursting maneuver, placing my bokken on the left side of yours throwing it off course, alwhile spinning simultaneously leading me behind you using your body as a path, once behind you i use your own attack against you, mimicing your moves to perform a thrust aimed at your spine. Once done i resume my original posture and await your instructions.
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Hope this is more to your liking haha
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Hope this is more to your liking haha
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So from your description, here is what I assume you're doing. You're using a single hand grip with your right hand. With your left, you place it against where the "blade" would be. Then you bat my thrust away by hitting the right side of my bokken with your bokken. While nearly at the same time, you would spin by bringing your right shoulder back and then around (on my right side) to get behind me. Once behind me, you thrust at my spine. Correct?
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Try it again then (same description just rewrite it again). Your description was pretty clear since I understood your move, but just work on making a description as short as possible, but with all the information you need.
Alright here it goes.
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As you run towards me raising your bokken i take my stance and use instead a single-hand grip on my bokken with my right hand, bracing my left against the "blade", as you lung your bokken forward i hit the left side (your right) of your bokken sending it off to the right, almost in the same movement i move behind you spinning slightly bring my right shoulder back and around your own pushing off of your to complete the spin throwing you off-balance once behind you i then thrust the bokken at your spine.
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Quite lovely, I do declare! Other people go into each stance and yada yada but unless you develop a passion for sword-play, simple understanding and description is all you need to learn in the beginning. Any questions before we do the techniques?
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You are a Kumo member, so you can learn Cloud Style Kenjutsu However, I cannot teach it so you may ask another for it.
Beginning with..(Ken Rendan no Jutsu) - Sword Barrage Technique
Rank: C
Type: Offensive
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 10
Damage points: 25
Description: With this technique, the user will make a sequence of slashes with their sword and finishes with a powerful final slash dealing liberal damage to their enemy.
One of my favorites because it gives you complete freedom in how you attack! Probably the best technique on the entire list of basic ken.