How to Defend Against a Spear Thrust with a Katana

Video Transcript

"TRES TEW: Hi, my name is Tres Tew. I'm an instructor here at Yeshua's Ryu Martial Arts. Today we are going to be talking about the katana on behalf of Expert Village. Okay, now I am going to explain how to defend yourself against the spear thrust. Spear thrust will be coming straight at you. Just like the katana thrust, it's a little bit longer so it will be a little bit different, okay. Now we are actually doing the technique. Good, pushing the katana out of the way just like or the spear out of the way just like the katana when I slash it the spear hand and then we will change our grip right over here, right after the cut, change it over and then change this hand, come through and if you look in the mirror you can see that I am taking it right into his midsection here and pulling out back to here, okay. So one more time, okay. I am pushing it out of the way, slashing, changing hands and cutting through, okay. So full speed. Just like that, okay. And that is one way to defend against the spear thrust. "