EVERY KENDO TIP I wish I knew about Hiki Waza!

Thank you for this video! This technique always been one of the more difficult moves for me. You broke it down succinctly!

Thanks to this video I understood the movement. Now I just need to practise it.

Amazing. Thank you so much for making this video. Please make another video going into the specifics about doing a hiki-waza fumikomi.

I agree on most things. 2 things i noticed in your demonstration though. While doing zanshin you lean back while moving back which most likely comes from stuff seen from high schoolers. Problem is its visible you have trouble keeping balance. I dont think its necessary to do it like this. It makes sense for japanese high schoolers because they are young, fit and 300% on intensity. They have the speed to support this movement.

For you and most other people its totally fine to go back with a straight posture. Doesnt mean you cant lean back but it seems like an afterthought in your demo as you lean back while already moving for some time. I can understand it happening initially after striking.

2. I think your body could lean a bit more into your fumikomi. It helps with explosivness and power. Hyuga kajitani shows that alot. This kind of droppage of the center of gravity.

Other than that i think you are doing fine and i also agree on the things said. 👍

this is great and all, but i need to know how to make that kendo dummy! But yes, this is a great vid. Thanks!

this is a very good vid. the #1 takeaway (in my opinion) is being lazy during jigeiko. too many people (myself included) work on shinsa keiko and tend to avoid hikiwaza because we know hikiwaza isn't going to help pass a grading.. and then of course, this means our hikiwaza is pretty weak because it's rarely practiced. And then we tend to avoid it even more in tournaments. There was a time many years ago when it seemed difficult in some places to have a hikiwaza get scored, especially hiki-dou, and lot of people avoided it for that reason. But I think the techniques are getting better now, and the shinpan are getting better (in the US).... it's a real opportunity to get a point, especially if you get stuck with somebody using jodan. One important aspect is to understand tsubazeriai as a real kamae... and in order to achieve yukodatotsu, you need to create an opening/opportunity and strike properly, no different from attacking with chudan. I think if we work on hikiwaza more, we might find that creating an opportunity might sometimes feel easier than trying to do it from the distance of normal chudan. It really doesn't make much sense to purposefully avoid hikiwaza (in tournaments) if we consider "one attack" to create two opportunities to strike: (1) the initial forward attack, and then (2) the tsubazeriai and backwards attack. Giving up tsubazeriai is wastefully giving away one opportunity. ... this is something I really need to be better about doing, too.

thanks for the great vid!

This Video is what I have always been looking for, its so useful, Thank You Jose!!

Hiki are very tricky techniques, but a great weapon in your arsenal if you can get good enough to score off of them. Thanks for this great video.