We started the demo with Bronson Diffin and myself performing the first six kata from ZNKR seitei iai, and I gave them a short lecture on the history of the Japanese sword arts, explaining the way it has evolved from the type of practices depicted in the move "Last Samurai" which they had just finished watching.

Aaron, Terry, and Bob get ready to begin the shinai geiko portion of our demo. I'm sitting closer up front to the audience explaining the construction of our bogo.

Terry Tokuhiro (left) and Aaron Robadey (right) get further ready.

Here we are in the middle of kiri kaeshi.

This, I'm sure is doh ichi kome.

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We finished with about 2-3 minutes of free-sparring (jiyu geiko) with a lot of spirit, loud kiai etc. Then off to the bar to enjoy ourselves with our host, Mr. Yoshida.