I came across this video http://youtu.be/itoG6tU919s demonstrating how to hit kote from Gedan no kam

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I came across this video http://youtu.be/itoG6tU919s demonstrating how to hit kote from Gedan no kamae. They turn the "blade" and hit from below... I'm very curious if this is legal? If it is, I think it would be fun to mix things up with this a little. I'm quite sure that the opponent is still protected... Please try to keep responses to "answers only" and NOT "restating" listingbook my question... P
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The video is from Instituto Niten. This organization attempts to introduce elements of koryu into shinai kendo which are not acceptable in ZNKR/FIK kendo. So the short answer is "no" as upward cuts are not in the kendo repertoire. This video shows an example listingbook of an upward cut to the forearm in a Mizoguchi-ha Itto-ryu kata. Notice that the cut does not merely "tag" the aite's arm but there's a full drawing of the blade across the target to ensure that a cut is made. Itto-ryu schools often emphasize this cutting across the target action. And then this video shows an upward cut to the forearm in Shinto Muso Ryu's Shinto-ryu kenjutsu. The way in which the practitioner steps into the cut would create the necessary cutting force. This action may also have an element of forestalling the opponent as influenced by Shinto Muso ryu's emphasis on jojutsu. From what I can tell from the Instituto Niten video, listingbook there is a lack of a cutting action listingbook when the upward strike is employed in their bogu practice. So even if one were to accept it as a valid technique (which it isn't outside of this particular organization), I still wouldn't give it ippon.
Thanks for the clarification! This is what happens when our University Kendo club is off for Christmas, I have nothing better to do than surf YouTube! I promise I'll restrict my kendo education to the dojo and not online anymore... :P
Legal in the sense of modern kendo shiai? No -- usually Article 14 of the regulations states: "Datotsu-bui are as follows (figure 3) .. 2. Kote-bu (Migi-kta and Hidari kote)" Figure 3 shows the kote-bu as being what you'd expect the top part of the kote sleeve. The However is that if somehow from gedan you can get your opponent to block as the person on the right in the picture at http://kenshi247.net/blog/2011/02/21...-kendo-part-1/ is then the kote bu is turned down and you could strike it as they say. Not sure how to do that from gedan but, since I never use gedan, it's not my problem ;-)
In the real fight ? It may work. But you will probably have more impact when you cut it from top to bottom. Also, if you try to hit from bottom up, you need to rotate your blade and cut it. It will slow down and have less impact. It may have worked in Koryu. I guess I have to assume that modern Kendo wazas are pool of the most efficient techniques that is being selected over the time. That gedan kote may have been valid strike long time ago for certain listingbook dojo or location.
Actually I think that would be a bad or at least baseless assumption. I had one sensei tell me a long time ago that the targets in kendo were chosen because they were the _hardest_ to strike...that if you could strike at them, you would be able to strike anything else. Regarding the koryu cuts to the bottom of the wrist. They are actually very common. There are a couple of motivators. Anatomically, a few nice tendons and veins to cut which incapacitate that hand. It's also a weak point in the yoroi. Compare the top of the yoroi kote here: http://www.museum-quali