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BLADE SWINGER Raland Lagace was one of four karate instructors
with the local Chito-Ryu karate club that returned from Japan with
black belts in a sword-drawing martial art.

Black-belted
swordsmen

TERRACE — Four local karate
instructors returned from Ji apan
Jast week with black belts in a
martial art of swordsmanship.

The four were David
Akutugawa, Dr. Chee Ling,
Roland Lagace and Joe Zuc-
chiatti. Norm Goodlad also
made the trip, but studied
karate only.

All four passed the test for
black belt:
unanimous decision of the
board of judges, all of whom
are masters who hold 7th or
higher degree black belts in the
art. Jaido is the art of quickly
drawing swords.

Zucchiatti said the northwest
students were more or less self-
taught. They have been study-
ing for nearly four years under a
master named Toshiro — who
holds an &th degree black belt in
karate, and 7th degree black
belts in both kendo and iaido.
In between sporadic sessions
with him, they worked on their
technique using instructional
videotapes,

The judging panel was sur-
prised at their ability, Zucchiatti
said, He called their success a
tremendous achievement.

‘It’s one of the martial arts

taido”'by a

that’s been pretty much limited
to Japan,”’ he said. ‘In all of
Canada there are only a few
people with this level in iaido.,
And we are not just one of the
first Canadians, but one of the
first groups of foreigners so
honoured. It's very unusual.”
He said iaido is different
from kendo, which involves
sparring with a bamboo stick.

“It’s a ‘very formal and
ritualized art form,”’ he said.
**It gets back to the true mean-
ing and use of the Japanese
samurai sword.”

During the training in Japan,
Zucchiatti said, they were using
the katana — the name of the
long sword used — to cut
bundles of rice straw. ‘‘At the
end we were all able to cut
through rice straw bundles
roughly equivalent to the
resistance Of a human body in
one blow,””

They trained between six and
nine hours a day throughout the
two weeks they were in Japan,
he added, The training took
place in Kumamoto, a city on
the island of Kyushu that’s
steeped in Japanese martial arts
history,

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