Gun Iaito?

[Entropy]

Hi all, new too the site. Love the movie and love the Gun Kata idea. Something tickled my mind though once when I was watching it and I was wondering if you could help me out.

Has anyone ever discussed the idea of Gun Iaito? Iaito is a japanese form revolving around attacking through and refining the art of drawing the sword. Has anyone here ever heard of or worked on a form or kata that emphasized attacking with and the art of drawing the gun?

If so, I'd like to know about it. If not, I would be interested in its possible development, it could make a different and interesting application. Thanks for any info, and I hope I don't come off sounding like an idiot .

[GunFu]

Hey, I think that's a great idea and it would work well with Gun Sau as well as Gun Kata. In case you haven't seen the links to my site, Gun Sau is a martial sport based on the Preston/Dupont fight scene using lazertag guns for close-quarters combat. We'd just need to make some holsters big enough to hold the padded lazer pistols ;D

There are lots of cowboy-style quick-draw videos etc. already out there but I guess this would be more of a martial arts thing (?) Anyway you could use the cowboy style to base Gun Iaito on.

Good idea, man!

GunFu

[Entropy]

Very nice website, and I gotta say I'm interested in Gun Sau. When I first conceived of the idea of gun iaito in my own mind, I was kinda basing how I thought the style would look off two sources. One was the Preston/DuPont fight, I loved the close quarters fluid style of it. The second was, if you've ever seen it, the final gunfight at the end of the movie Tombstone (between Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo). The fight was shown very differently from standard western gun-duels. It was very close-quartered, the opponents circling each other looking for an opening, positioning themselves in odd ways to minimize their target.

I was thinking for the style, incorporating some elements of the cowboy style, but alot of different elements as well. The art of drawing the sword for a one stroke kill is a very detailed science, much the same I think can be applied over to drawing the gun and the styles used within. I was also thinking that the draw itself could easily be melded with a close-quarters style (much like the Gun Sau you've developed). I don't know, but its something interesting I would be interested in pursuing.

[GunFu]

Hey Entropy,

I haven't seen Tombstone but that fight sounds interesting - I'll have to check it out on DVD.

Feel free to join up to the Gun Sau Forum as well, it sounds like Gun Iaito would make a perfect companion art.

GunFu

[GunFu]

www.gunfighter.com/fastdraw/

There are lots of these sites on fast draw shooting - doesn't seem to be that much involved apart from getting really, well, fast on the draw, but maybe it's a start.

GubFu

[gkapitso]

Just a small clarification.... the name of the sword-drawing art is Iai-do. it was developed in Japan by certain members of the Samurai class, as a loose collection of techniques of fast sword drawing and attacking/ defending as the sword leaves the scabbard. As with a lot of martial arts, those techniques were collected and formalized into systems after the 14-15th century AD.
Just my two cents

[Drifter]

Gun Iaido! I think its a great idea Im just curious as to how efficient it would actuall be?

[GunFu]

Hey Drifter,

Entropy has posted soem more about his ideas for Gun Iaido at the Gun Sau forum - www.setbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=38&mforum=gunsau

Mike