Iaido have 2 very beautyful styles where they use the wakisashi (short sword) and fight with 2 blades, here you can learn some sick moves with a lightsaber and a shoto.

Japanese styles such as Iaido and Kendo are perfect for Shii-cho, Makashi aaaaannnndddd. Fencing and European sword can go with every form with exception of Soresu, Ataru and Shien/Djem-so. This way I can (in my own particular way of seeing this) apply Chinese style for every or almost every LS style. In my particular situation, being a big fella (and not very agile) I feel that Master Nonymous style come with a strong influence of chinese sword martial arts, probably Wu-Shu, and for me some of his movements are very difficult to grasp. It will take a wile for me to show some of my work, I want to show something of quality that help fans (like me) to practice fun and useful forms for LS, but besides all this, I admire and have a lot of respect for the work of some masters in this forums, in particular Master Nonymous and as a Iaido practitioner I totally agree with him and Master Vornach that his videos of Shii cho are very close to what Iaido would be for LS If you are able to go to Iaido school, do not think it twice, Iaido changed my life. BUT, Noto can be used as a form of respect and honour to your opponent, looks amazing with lightsabers and you can easily adapt this to makashi in every ending of makashi forms, because every Noto is partucularly elegant and beautyful. Now, moving to lightsabering, unsheating and sheating is useless for LS, Noto (cleaning the blood) useless also. I study a style called Kosheta Ryu, it have several Iaido styles along the way, and is based in Seitei for first graders. In an attempt to unify and grade students there is a Kendo association called ZNKR (Zen Nihon Kendo Renmei) This association have 12 basic katas called Seitei-Iai that have to be performed in order to judges to have a parameter for grading the performance of the student. So, the katas are short but VERY difficult to master and most of them are performed in seiza (kneeling position) Another issue that makes Iaido a hard martial art is that there are over 30 styles recorded and many others hidden or unknown to foreigners. This gives Iaido 4 main stages, unsheathing, attacking, cleaning the blood (chiburi) and sheathing the sword (noto) Iaido was intended for fast and swift attacks that will result in ones opponent`s dead directly from the scabbard of the sword called saya. Hi Rajen, I am a 3 year Iaido practitioner and I am working (as stated in other posts) in mixing Iaido with lightsaber, bare with me because this will be a long post and forgive any language mistakes cause English is not my main. Iado is frequently taught as more of a contemplative, perhaps meditative, art with little to no combat application. The Iado I am familiar with is very congruent with Shii-Cho in terms of basics of blade work, footwork and stances. TPLA has a bit of Iado techniques in Niman. Pretty much anything could be made into any Form.

Since Iado is drawing the weapon, there is a difficulty in direct translation.

I would almost venture to say that any form of sword combat would translate well to saber combat.Дepending on the style, Shii-Cho will be very beneficial. My question is, is anyone able to comment about Iado vs saber styles - we're does it fit in relation to the saber styles, how does the real world application of it work with a saber etc?Д¬an't comment directly on Iado, but I did Bokken Sparring with a friend for a number of years I can say that the overall knowledge of blade control and body movement translates really well. I've discovered a school nearby and will hopefully be joining soon. I'm excited about getting 'serious' about learning more about saber styles in practice and I was wondering about Iado.

Iaido stances