Training with the bokken

^{Author Antony Day}

Training with the bokken

How to improve your bokken training

If you have the opportunity of training with a partner. paired bokken exercises are of great value to your awareness with timing and safety

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.

There are some great two men and three men bokken katas, the two men katas consist of going through a series of movements using repetitive two strikes and three strikes and finally onto the four strike kata, first the strikes are done from a static posture.  Then repeat the cuts with a moving posture moving through the two to three and four strike kata's.

If you're lucky enough to trying with two partners.  You have one in front of you and one behind you.  You would only practice this with people you fully trust as being hit with a bokken can hurt quite a bit so please never train at full speed, this type of training is to improve not only your contact with bokken, but also awareness of opponents. 

Again, you start in static positions and move on to moving positions.  Gradually incorporating your strikes.  You will make mistakes, so it is up to your opponents to cover for you if you do make them.  And you for them, a memo always safety first bokken training is very rewarding and has a great way of heightening your senses.

You will find in a bokken class You'll give it 100% concentration.  So all the outside worries will be left outside, Making a purchase of a bokken can be a hard decision, as there are many places to buy from some good, some not so good?  In making a choice of a bokken. 

I suggest that you check out as many sites as you can and try to read the testimonials, as it is worth investing in a wooden bokken of some pedigree.
Bokken's for training very in prices from a few dollars, up to $100.  In most cases, the old adage, you get what you pay for, is quite true.

Remember each person training with a bokken is a different individual, and will train differently from the last person.  So always be prepared to adapt to your new opponent as they might not be as proficient with their bokken as the last person.

Train Hard Train Focused Train Safe; Tony day

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