You're a wizard at explaining these techniques. I've practiced with a few weapons over the years in my own style with swords being one of my favorite classes and from just the few videos I've watched I feel like you've progressed my understanding 10x. You are a true Sensei Paul. I am very grateful for the time and effort you have put in to sharing this information with the world.

Everything just clicked today after watching these videos and working with my katana. Ive got it whipping now with little effort swooshing through the air with every swing. The sword feels half the weight now that im holding and swinging it properly. Tanks for putting these videos out. You are a great teacher and if you were in my area i would definitely be in your dojo.

Man I don't know how you don't have millions of subscribers! Definitely my favorite person to learn anything when it comes to Katana

Very interesting! The idea of pushing forward with the shoulder for both cutting and drawing the weapon back up were very interesting. I was playing along, and I feel that has helped me understand how my shoulders are moving (and sometimes not moving) when practicing. Thank you!

Thank you very much for these videos. I'm brand new to the concept of swordsmanship and these are simple enough for me to grasp the concept without being overly simplified and useless.

Thank you so much for this wonderful information, sir.

Great vids - if I may make some suggestions. Start and end the videos with just doing some repetitions correctly, so we can get an overall idea of what it's supposed to look like. Make sure to have a wide shot that shows footwork!

Thanks again!

Большое спасибо за Ваши уроки!!!🤝

I like that hara exercise, definately going to try that out soon 👌 thank you sensei

EXCELENT!!!!! Arigatō sensei

Very informative,thank you

WOW is this stuff good. I "frontloaded" my shoulders like you said and immediately got my deepest cut so far on a pool noodle. I knew after i got sore on my first attempts i was doing something SUPER wrong. So glad for your videos to teach me correctly. Thank you! I will look to donate soon friend.

I'll have watch this tomorrow. See ya

Thank you Very much

This is good stuff.

I used to practice this alone by pushing the jo into a wall as good partners are hard to find

I love the teaching thank you for explaining it's so important you make it easy. Can you do more on blocking and cutting two people what part of the katana you used to block the muni the back or side? Thank you so much can you send me a notification when you're ready. ✌️😇

This is excellent instruction. I would have liked instruction like this decades ago. I really like the sword that is being used in the video. It would be nice to be able to find that sword for sale somewhere.

You didn't use any of the light pivoting hand skills of the first video but baseball batted it mostly. Just saying. Still gave you a like.

I would like to know why I always see the same sword model in the demos? THX Maester 👍

Thank you Frank Sensei. Very nice video! The center pressure you mentioned reminds me of the internal abdominal pressure that a Toyama Ryu sensei mentioned as essential for power transmission. Musashi also mentioned in his book to "squeeze the wedge so that the scabbard moves towards the obi". I was also wondering, since some ryuha requires opening up elbow in jodan position for broader vision (I suppose?), How the same principle for how to raise katana to jodan applies? Should we still push forward the elbow to raise the sword to jodan and then open up the elbows?

First off amazing videos. I do have a question on the pull back of the sword. You talk about pushing forward on the elbows and keeping the preload. When do you transition to pulling the scapulas back or is there always forward pressure? This would be for iaido.

If you don't mind me asking sir were did you purchase your sword

can i do the bo exercise without a partner, or do i need a partner?

Maybe something's off with my hearing, but the noisy bathroom fan humming in the background makes it difficult to hear what you're saying. Otherwise great instruction, we need to learn how to sever limbs as effectively and efficiently as possible for the imminent vaxxezombielypse.

Mr. Paul, You need to STOP telling us what not to do. When you do this this fills our memories up with what not to do, so we have no room to remember what TO do correctly. And STOP emphasizing the squeezing of hand. You only need to say once. We can easily see what happens. You don't need to keep telling us the sun rises in the east. We know

it's like: "teach me how to kick" Man.... you really don't need videos like that one

This is the strangest video tutorial I have ever seen on cutting. Proper cutting techniques can only be obtained by cutting targets (tatami-omote, bamboo, or both). The principle you teach about moving your elbows together will cause you to use too much upper body (i.e., power) in your cut. While it might accentuate the proper grip on the sword (like wringing towels inward), it is completely wrong. I have the utmost respect for your knowledge of Katori Shinto Ryu. However, tameshigiri is not part of the KSR curriculum. During WW2, the Japanese military sent soldiers to Toyama to learn proper techniques related to the art of tameshigiri. This is why the modern form of budo is called Toyama Ryu Battojutsu. THE RIGHT HAND The right hand is just along for the ride. Swordsmanship is much like golf. It's about connecting your cut with the hips and maintaining the proper hasuji. THE LEFT HAND It's important to keep your left hand in the center of your body. The proper cutting technique is about keeping the left hand in the center of the body, regardless of the cut being performed. The only other way to cut in KSR is maki-uchi. As we previously discussed, the swordsman is not wearing a kabuto when doing Iai in KSR. A shinken is exceptionally sharp. Swordsmanship is about finesse. You didn't place any emphasis on hasuji (blade angle) or the idea of planing through the target. You might get through on the right side (migi-kesa) with that weird technique, but you would find it very difficult to do "hidari-kesa", or "gyaku-kesa" with that technique. I would like you to upload a video of you cutting a target with that technique.