Tegatana dosa incorporate key principles of seven sword cuts and comprise five sets of movements (each with a count from one to eight, four right side, four left). The first two sets are sword based atemi. The remaining sets contain within them key sword hand/arm and body movement principles that are to be found again and again in the koryu kata. Again the feet are moved with tsuki-ashi, or sliding steps remaining in contact with the floor, so as to retain good solid balance.
Set 1: Shomen no uchikomi, Shomen no tsukikomi
Set 2: Kiri Kaeshi
Set 3: Maki Zuki
Set 4: Kesa Uchi
Set 5: Tenkai no Uchikomi, Tentai no Uchikomi
Published on Oct 25, 2014
取:小中淳二, 監修:佐藤忠之
Tori:Junji Konaka, Supervised by Tadayuki Sato
JAA教育局指導委員会作成
Produced by JAA, Educational Div., Committee on Instruction
Nariyama Shihan 9th Dan, Tegatana Dosa with bokken
Foot Movements