Battodo
Mizu gaeshi is a diagonally upwards cut followed by a horizontal cut all made before the target hits the floor.
These cuts are classified as "speed-cuts" and are mainly used in fencing bouts utilizing the blade's tip (hasaki) for disabling an opponent. After he had succumbed to the wound he would have been dispatched with a "power-cut" as in video # 3.
Practical Tameshigiri
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