Iaido Class

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="05d785a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Isshinryu Karate Do, Stamford Dojo</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stamford Dojo"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photos"><U><B><IMG SRC="03b0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>   </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>     </B><A HREF="id141.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shihan Maruyama"><U><B><IMG SRC="02f0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sensei Gagnon, MJE Iaido"><U><B><IMG SRC="0300e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="58df0b63.jpg"> <div> Dr. Gagnon, student of  Sensei Arthur Bolen, is seen on the far left of this picture in the Iaido Class of Muso Jikiden Eishin-Ryu Iaido led by visiting Sensei Maruyama.  The draw of the sharpened Katana being practiced, comes from the Tatehiza (half-kneeling) position, but began in Seiza (full kneeling position).  It is the Nukisuke draw from the Mae Waza set of draws and will be completed by a standing cut straight down (Furikaburi from Tachi) and a swing of the blade (Ha) downward (Chiburi) to symbolize removing the blood  that would be on the blade .</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="58df0b63.jpg"> <div> <B>Iaido Class</B><B> Conducted by Maruyama Sensei</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="6122d310.png" border=0 width="557" height="305" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> </tr></table></body>