Seppuku

[Water-quan]

Teaching kids how to commit seppuku...

or is it teaching kids about a cultural practice... ??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRtYbUPeECU

[David Jamieson]

Certified bonehead.

[Sardinkahnikov]

And the guy teaches at the Family Martial Arts Academy!

I don't think the families of these kids are paying him to teach how to commit ritual suicide

Jokes aside, I don't really see any real harm in talking about seppuku...It's not like he's recommending it or some wacko **** like that.

PS: By the way, have you guys seen the movie "Seppuku"/"Harakiri"? The Kobayashi one? I tell you, best samurai movie I've ever seen. The pace is kinda slow but the story is very good and the duels are very interesting, just a bit stylized.

Check it out. I rarely ever recommend movies but this one is really really good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk-xztZ7rEU

[Lucas]

that is a wonderful movie. a great showing of bushido on film.

[bawang]

that was a nice demonstration

all wing chun people should learn it

[SPJ]

need to get a HD videocam

how do you change the color to black and white?

[dimethylsea]

And I thought I was a hard core teacher!!! (jk)

[David Jamieson]

that was a nice demonstration

all wing chun people should learn it

Bawang wins the internets again!

[GeneChing]

We had to train the cut that the seppuku second had to do in iaido, but it's totally different in this setting.

One of our previous publications did a seppuku cover - see 1997 JULY/AUG Issue. That was before my time. It was controversial.

Hari-Kiri was a great chanbara flick. One of the best.

I concur - good one Bawang.

[GeneChing]

...because you never know when you might need to apply it.

[GeneChing]

Samurai sword expert killed himself in act of ‘seppuku’ in his bedroom
Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk
Friday 15 Dec 2017 9:59 am


Alun Jones was a samurai sword expert who worked in Japan (Picture: Wales News Service)

A samurai sword expert took his own life using his weapon in the traditional act of seppuku. Alun Jones, 51, was found by his mother Margaret on the floor of his bedroom covered in blood. Mrs Jones said that he was lying on top of his sword with his arms above his head after killing himself while visiting her during a regular trip back to the UK from Japan where he sold samurai swords. An inquest heard that he was ‘not his usual self’ during his trip back to Newport, south Wales. His sister Marianne Caulfield said: ‘For many years he had lived abroad and when he came home he would go out visiting friends. He impaled himself on his own samurai sword in his bedroom during a trip to see his family (Picture: Wales News Service) ‘But this time he had lost weight and spent most of his time in his bedroom. He had a collection of samurai swords and had developed an interest in the samurai tradition.’ A few hours before he was found dead he was seen by a neighbour asleep on a sofa with an open book of family photos next to him. Man arrested after slamming car through railing and into basement of home DC Rhys Williams told the inquest that Mr Jones had a passion for samurai swords. He had sent them to a specialist in London for work to be done on them and had received them back shortly before killing himself. The inquest heard that Mr Jones had died from lacerations to the heart and liver after stabbing himself in the stomach. Gwent senior coroner David Bowen said: ‘He had a collection of samurai swords which he sent to a specialist in London and had been returned days before he was found dead. ‘He was found with the samurai sword underneath his body and I am satisfied it was self inflicted. ‘In Japan the samurai tradition is called hara kiri. In this country it is suicide.’

What is seppuku? Seppuku is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment using a samurai sword. It is seen as an ‘honourable’ death rather than falling into the hands of the enemy or is carried out because someone has brought shame upon themselves. It can also be known as harakiri, which literally translates as ‘cutting the stomach’.

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[wolfen]

He's not even teaching it right
We had to train the cut that the seppuku second had to do in Iaido, but it's totally different in this setting.

Yes, I agree. I also have studied Iaido. This technique to be done in vivo, takes advanced swordsmanship
More to the point "He's not even teaching right" or "He's not even teaching". He's yakking -wasting time. Even his technique as is , is inferior.
It's a rather common example of Western culture imposing on inheritance rather than the person absorbing inheritance. His presence is so poor his equilibrium is unbalanced by the camera and students reacting - I'm surprised he didn't stumble over his student and kill himself with his bokken.

--->

And speaking of suicide: "Hey mom! Come up to my room and see the present I left for you".
Clearly this suicide wasn't planned too well. In these stories we only get the sensational foreground and not the background - the devil is in the details. Did he recently go on anti-depressants? - what else what happening in his life? etc etc

Anyway on face value the first thing that it looks like is an act of inverted anger against momma or whoever else was significant to him.

Gee! He could have made it count for something - Like leave a note protesting the feminization of UK men, or the lack of good sushi bars or whatever....
But no - nothing - poorly planned with no apparent meaning. Not Seppuku, suicide.
Like the LA shooter - they know people will want to know why they did what they did - but they ain't telling - that could be part of the revenge.