These routines are practiced with wooden swords for safety. Multiple person routines are known as Ken Jutsu and are taught to senior students. Competition and advancement is is based on having the best form and technique. Because of the danger of the weapons used in Iaido, this martial art does not practice sparring of any kind.
Because Iaido is practiced with a weapon, the training is focused on the performance of solitary forms, or kata performed against imaginary opponents. Students begin their training by using a wooden sword (bokken), then a practice sword with a dulled blade (iaito), before graduating to a sharp edged sword (katana or tachi). Iaido is the Japanese martial art of drawing and cutting with the sword.
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