Great, now even iaido (the art of drawing the sword) is deadly too!
What's next - deadly knitting? How about deadly chess, or even better: deadly poetry?
And what about the the really deadly arts (aka. teh de4dly arts), like (shutter...), tai chi, karate and judo? What are they - absolutely, really, terribly, utterly, over the top, instantly deadly?
Again, silly old me! I was kind of lead to believe that a graceful, zen art like iaido - most of the times practiced with a non-sharpenend sword called iaito - was anything BUT deadly. The real warrior art of iai-jutsu on the other hand...
And it gets even better in this "how far off can we possibly get" article. There's a picture of people doing kendo with bamboo "swords" (called shinai). Under it is written this pearl of infinite wisdom: "Ross Goulet shows his skill with the kantana during a demonstration at iaido class".
Wow...
I mean, it's quite fair to be ignorant about a subject, but could we just ask for at least one tiny piece of fact from time to time? Can we have that, pleeease...
Story:
It's not a word that flows easily off the tongue, but iaido is fluid and graceful in practice. It can also be deadly.
The martial art is done with swords called kantana, which is a long sword. The swords are used by samurai soldiers in battle.
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