Tameshigiri Beach Mats

Perfect for cutting test and competitions as well as practicing mat cuts and working on the perfect cut.

Tameshigiri beach mats. These should really be marketed as beach mats for tameshigiri not tatami. Adding additional beach mats does not make the targets much harder to cut. In bulk they have little smell. Another benefit of using our new mats is that if you choose you can make two quality targets from a single tatami mat reducing your costs and making tameshigiri even more affordable.

Tameshigiri teaches the student how to effectively strike with the sword. We have introduced some of these extra long tameshigiri cutting mats for the practitioner who wants to practice on cutting targets. I am looking for an online store preferably or a store with a physical location in northern new jersey if possible otherwise central works too that sells either tatami or beach mats they can be combined to get a similar feel to tatami for cheap for the purpose of tameshigiri cutting practice. Consisting of the outer covering omote of the tatami mat used in japanese homes a single rolled tatami mat over a bamboo core is supposedly extremely close in consistency to that of a human arm or neck which is very scary when you see how easily some swords cut right through it.

Reviewed in the united states on january 31 2020. Rolling them makes a mess since the border needs to be removed. Each tameshigiri mat is constructed to give the feedback of cutting a live target while not hurting a soul. During the edo period only the most skilled swordsmen were chosen to.

Our regional vendors sell our high quality tatami omote from coast to coast. Tameshigiri 試し斬り 試し切り 試斬 試切 is the japanese art of target test cutting the kanji literally mean test cut kun yomi. These days tatami omote is easily the most common medium for dojo approved tameshigiri.

East coast nihonzashi west coast tameshigiri mats. This training is only performed after months of training because shinken real swords are used. They are about 6 shorter than tatami mats. Don t confuse our tatami omote with beach mats or the thinner more flimsy 48 inch mats being sold elsewhere for tameshigiri.

Our tameshigiri mats are the best money can buy. 5 0 out of 5 stars all together good deal assuming the mats ain t microscopic. There is a huge variety of bamboo with a wide range of toughness. You will appreciate this value.

These are long enough that you get a lot of use out of each mat. 9 people found this helpful.