3 TYPES OF BATTO and NOTO TUTORIAL

In this video I show you BATTO and NOTO, which is drawing the sword and sheathing the sword. BATTO and NOTO are very important basic skills for the samurai sword.  From BATTO we will do SEIGAN-NO-KAMAE. This is one of the most basic stances in samurai sword martial arts. Today’s video shows techniques from the Kaz Method, which I developed from my experience in Taté and several disciplines of Japanese sword martial arts. **Note: in Iaido my version of YOKO-NOTO is called tate-noto. However, these techniques on my channel are my own method which I have developed called Kaz Method. I am calling it yoko-noto since it slides horizontally (yoko) so it is easy to remember. Whether the katana is horizontal, vertical or another angle, the principle behind the sheathing is the same. I am not ignoring or disrespecting Budo naming conventions. However, since there are many types of Ryuha (schools of martial arts) each with their own types of naming, it is not possible to satisfy everyone