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- Being samurai means to die anytime.
You are always ready, ready to die.
Therefore there's no fear.
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- My name is Daniel Ebihara
I'm head of the Ken-Zen Dojo.
I'm the first one to start the Japanese Kendo
in New York City.
Kendo is a martial arts using Japanese sword.
It's a technique called the sword
and the philosophy of the sword.
Philosophy is how you place your mind.
The enemy is yourself,
of course, there is opponents.
Rather than destroying him,
it is destroying within yourself enemy.
The fighting is the last, last, very last condition.
There is no way you lose,
if you're master of this art.
I can see he's using a big sword, in the.
What he's carrying in the back.
It's okay.
That time, 16th century, ōdachi is not popular.
ōdachi is a usually very long, heavy sword.
To cuts through the armor.
Therefore such a big sword it's not necessary.
Samurai wear two sword, one is short, one is a bigger.
The shorter one is about foot and a half.
The longer one is about four and a half feet.
So-called Japanese sword is a perfect weapon.
All those long swords is a disadvantage they think,
so they don't use it.
Oh yes,
the way he's standing is normal.
It should be like that.
If the sword is this long
I'm pretty sure exceeds six pounds.
So if you're just still standing the way normal,
the way I'm standing.
Can I handle it?
So he has to open his leg wide.
Put more power in the abdomen.
That's the way you have to handle
this long sword.
But not practical.
I understand this is exaggerating.
Carrying weapon so high,
the other side can get into cross to him.
So, it's a really disadvantage.
People who knew the sword, would not do such a thing
(laughing)
If he's a dummy,
if you go in,
in that kind of stance, you kill yourself.
You're the suicide mission.
And that opportunity, it's called suki in Japanese.
Suki means opening.
It's possible, that's the thing,
but I wouldn't do it.
(laughs)
So.
There's a significant movement in this samurai.
The way he maneuvering is the right way to do it.
Unless, there are many opponents at the same time.
It would take a long time, but only one against one,
takes only second.
It's not attacking by the actual sword,
it is attacking by mind.
It's not by words, but it's a pressure when you go out
and you see the big mountain, you're feeling pressure.
Mountain is not not doing anything, just being there.
So it's, 'Oh my God, this mountain.
How do I climb this mountain?
That's kind of pressure
you're giving, that's the kind of feeling
you're giving to the opponents.
Without words, without much movements,
but being there gives opponent tremendous pressure.
He cannot stand this, so he will attack.
And that's the time he dies.
That's where his opening is.
In this case, both sides know how skillful he is, by moving.
To see how he moves, you can find how well he trained.
(laughs)
The way it looks like, I think they are trained after all.
Samurai fight on the roof?
You have to wipe the idea of Japanese samurai
going up to the roof.
No, they don't.
You have seen many scenes in the movie.
A ninja walk to the roof,
but samurai is not going up, actual samurai.
Okay.
This case does not make it surprise,
because he's already in the situation of the battle,
fighting each other.
Otherwise, it happens to be in the roof.
So that's the continuation of the fighting.
He's hiding behind something
and the other samurai came close and go
'boo'.
This is something like that, but you don't never took.
If he's a real samurai, he will never run away, no.
Not because of trying to escape for survival reason.
That's not the way the samurai, so.
Being a samurai means to die any time.
You are always ready, ready to die.
Therefore, there is no fear.
This is a game, right?
The game means make-believe.
So therefore, cannot be any accuracy there.
If the two are fighting,
yes,
and one wins and one die.
Of course, is accurate.
So the game, to train as a samurai is impossible.
It cannot.
Based on our society,
since millions of years, is a fighting to survive.
Some get killed, some rise ahead.
All those things I have seen.
But, samurai came out.
It tries to co-existence.
Co-existence, sharing the same mind.
To live happy forever.
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