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In Japanese Ju-Jitsu, the weapon that is held in high esteem over all others would have to be the katana. As I’m approaching my black belt grading, I’m looking to perform a weapons kata and have been practicing in the recent months using a wooden bokken in place of a real katana for both praticality and safety.<\/p>\n
In this review, I’ll be giving my opinion on the Blitz Sport Black Oak Bokken<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n I purchased the Blitz Sport Black Oak Bokken a couple of years ago but I’ve been using it more in the last 12 months due to my upcoming grading, with a keen interest in learning how to use such a weapon in martial arts training properly and effectively.<\/p>\n The Blitz Black Oak Bokken measures 40 inches overall (10.25″ for the handle, 29.75″ for the ‘blade’), weighs 700g and comes with a black rubber ring and brown patterned tsuba. The bokken’s hilt is properly defined, where the blade section meets the handle, with a cut-out which the tsuba can sit against. Upon first placing the tsuba and ring onto the bokken, it took me around 25 minutes of patient wiggling to get it into position. As a bit of an OCD perfectionist when things become “out of place” or loose, even ever so slightly, I found myself tightening the ring to the tsuba so it was flush to the hilt whenever I used the bokken. Observing this, my Sensei whipped off the ring and tsuba as it was causing a distraction to me. This didn’t bother me though I did weep a little inside as it took so long to put it on the bokken and only a couple of seconds to remove it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Below is a video of Sensei Chris Davies 3rd Dan of Leigh Ju-Jitsu<\/a> performing a kata with the Blitz Bokken<\/p>\nBlitz Sport Black Oak Bokken<\/h4>\n
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