Atemi & Ki (Kenna's Tale).

I've been training more and more difficult techniques of Katana Sword Combat recently.

Had a little time for unarmed lessons, but did enough to not get out of shape, at least.


First technique of Katana Sword Combat was about hitting vulnerable points on enemy's body, doing critical wounds in process.

In Shou, langage of Kara-Tur, it's called: 'Atemi', which means: 'Striking at Vulnerable Points'.


Second technique of Katana Sword Combat is known in Narfell as: 'Power Attack', but sometimes it's called: 'Ki'. It's about sweeping cuts, striking hard, striking while directing Ki energies to the enemy's body to cause more damage. It's more difficult to make such attack connect with enemy's body, but when it hits, damage caused is considerable.

In Shou, word: 'Ki' means more or less: 'energy', 'force', and sometimes also: 'deadly strength'.


Then i've tried to join these two techniques into one, synergic technique.

(Word: 'Synergy' means: 'More than Sum of All Parts').


I have a satisfaction that recently these techniques start to work well, even in real combat, not only in training.

And it's good to know that I've learned all of the lessons required to advance to 5th Dan Black Belt, 5th Level of Mastery in Katana Sword training.

(There are 10 Training Levels and 10 Mastery Levels in Katana Sword School that I belong to).


-- Kenna, Adventuress on the Way of becoming One with Katana Sword.