8 sculptures made from cloning the weapons trajectories in a Japanese martial art.
There are 8 routines trained in pairs during Naginata practice (Japanese weapon based martial art). The practice aims to prepare the body and mind for the matches by repeating these routines containing most of the existent strikes, defences and footwork.
The Matches:
The Practice:
I reproduced the 8 routines in a 3D environment removing the practitioners and cloning their trajectories along their striking/defending path.
Shikake-Oji 01:
Attacker: Gold, Defender: Silver
Shikake-Oji 02:
Attacker: Gold, Defender: Silver
Shikake-Oji 03:
Attacker: Blue, Defender: Yellow
Shikake-Oji 04:
Attacker: Silver, Defender: Copper
As a practitioner, I carefully reproduced how these routines are memorized in my head.
The exciting thing was that after finished all of them, I realized I got better in the real practice of the sport, by forcing myself to understand better where the weapon is and how it moves in a 3D space of the computer software.
Shikake-Oji 05:
Attacker: White, Defender: Red
Shikake-Oji 06:
Attacker: Pink, Defender: Yellow
Shikake-Oji 07:
Attacker: Blue, Defender: Red
Shikake-Oji 08:
Attacker: Pink, Defender: Blue