The secret of spin sheathing taught by an industry professional

This clip explains the mystery of spin sheathing seen in may samurai movies by a step by step approach.

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[Densoro]

I was completely ready to believe you were that nimble with a steel blade lol

I love how you break down the context and purpose of these techniques!

[ronin]

I’ll try to learn this in my next life when I come back as a samurai…

[NumPad]

I literally taught myself this move more than a decade ago after watching Vergil in DMC3. I'm glad the technique I ended up at is in fact the proper technique!

My boneheaded self used an actual (non-sharpened) metal blade though, so I had to strengthen my fingers, wrist, and forearm before I could reliably spin the sword. I dropped it and/or hit myself with it so many times, but I eventually got it!

[Samurai-svwz]

I've attempted doing the spin sheathing exercise before, but, after a while I stopped. This video has encouraged me try it again.

[alexscott]

I'm 100% positive at least 70 twits injured themselves using a live blade instead of a dummy blade trying this.

[jannmikoingelrabagogamingc]

Now, with this technique, I am finally filled with POWER and MOTIVATION!

[brianscott]

Great breakdown. I do this with a blade sharpener to practice. My adhd made me start with spinning pencils and pens in class as a young adult to get the muscle memory. From there the weight just changes and the danger. I have a lot of respect for this man. When done in a fluid motion it's like watching a tsunami crash.

[Kdash]

Tried this once at my dojo putzing around before the class started at a muso shinden ryu school and my sensei gave me the death glare of disapproval. Feels bad man.

[TheBladepolisher]

Boy, you just can't get get cooler than Ace. Super friendly and non-assuming type of soul, and yet, when he suits up, he's all business ! ! Great site Ace ! !

[phosphorusmusick]

A Shiburi is also used as a means to sever the spiritual/energetic chord to your opponent after you finished them. A flashy Shiburi signals that you disrespect your opponent for being disrespectful to you and is something like a violent cutting of the energetic chord. A simple and calm Shiburi signals that your opponent fought and died in an honourful manner. That's what my teacher taught me during Iaido training. The move in this tutorial looks effin cool, though, and we learned this in training, too!

[vaziscoolz]

I checked out other tutorials. none of them worked, although after watching your tutorial, i easily advanced from the beginner-sheathing to spin-sheating in 15 minutes. thank you.

[georgewang]

Thank God for explaining in detail for the technique and material of the sword toward the end of the video. I was getting discouraged because I can't afford to loose anymore fingers until I knew I could have practiced with a bamboo sword!

[atomiccosnprops]

Thank you for this tutorial. The spin looks so awesome and elegant. The wooden sword fooled me totally :)

[cringeyidiotterry]

Damn, you taught so well that I learned it REALLY fast, man! Thanks!
Notice: I don't even own a Katana. I do this in my backyard on the rulers, broken hockey stick with its puck hitting surface, and baseball bat I have at home, and am planning to get a Chinese Jian sword as opposed to a Japanese Katana sword, and yet it still works with rulers, broken hockey sticks without their puck hitting surfaces, and baseball bats.

[manjitahzan]

I've know this technique, but you have helped me to refine it. Thank you!

[Jay]

Very impressive! And I really appreciate the backstory at the end. I can turn my katana but I think I use the whole hand when doing it. (Strange how difficult it is to analyze something that is done with pure muscle-memory) :)

[RandomGuy-qnfr]

I've done this with my T10 katana it takes a lot of strength to do this right along with keeping the momentum going, but since my hands are medium small size I had to modify the finger movement slightly sometimes even a millimeter or lower toss in the air to perfect this move. But it can be done with a regular katana

[tmmygun]

Huh, so I've been doing this right the entire time?! I have a custom aluminum dull katana with a plastic scabbard that I made to practice with. No one taught me how to spin sheath, so for the longest time, I just instinctively spun it like the way Aoshima demonstrated. I just never thought that it was the actual way to do it. Either way, cool tutorial and definitely a fun trick to learn and do.

[michalviktorin]

667th comments here. I played with knives too much since kindergarden and I am way to used to nunchaku tricks. This is so easy. So easy I could do it right away with both hands.

[MayumiC-chan]

my husband, father-in-law and my father love old school Chambara films!
Wakayama Tomisaburo and Shintaro Katsu play in our house on sundays when me and my friends go out. I am glad my husband can enjoy himself on his days off.

I started to watch these videos because my husband loves to watch your channel.