Jukendo Kata: Mokuju vs Tanken #2 銃剣道 形 （木銃と短剣）

• Starting from 9 steps apart.
• Ju takes a geidan aimed at Tans back knee
• As in #1 Tan covers with a twist of the forearm so the blade is now pointing over the right shoulder of the gun barrel and the base of the tanken is to the left of the gun barrel. Still very vertical (you can see the purpose of this kamae in number 4 kata of this set.) 
• 3 steps in each
• Tan pushes forward (seme) applying attacking pressure to the top of the gun
• Ju evades with a step back and right, simultaneously lowering and swinging the barrel to the right a little to avoid the tanken
• Ju strikes do
• Ju does hiki nuki zanshin (big step out followed by a lowering of body weight and a covering of Tan's wrist)
• Return to chudan
• Take a few steps back to middle point slowly moving back into kamae at the same time
• Drop weapon point down releasing pressure on opponent, At this Tan's back hand goes down as well.
• 5 steps back
• Return to Chudan, Tan's back hand comes up to hold the (imaginary) bayonet scabbard

Important Points:

• Timing of the seme by Tan. Tan walks in One, Two, Threeeeee, pressure. It is quite a big push in but not so that balance is lost or any more steps are needed.
• When Ju escapes (nuki waza) the seme make sure the juken is not swung too far out, it will not be pointed at Tan but should only be aimed an inch or two behind them
• The nuki waza to strike doesn't have a pause

What we did wrong (include most of the previous kata mistakes of course but these are the big ones I think):

• Overall speed is too fast. Almost everything could be slower by maybe 50%
• I am not sure I was supposed to lean forward with the Tanken when taking kamae
•  Ewa's nuki waza to strike moment didn't have the crispness of two movements which I think is desirable. I think this might be because she raised the barrel before finishing the nuki
• Again my walking backwards sucks quite a bit. Wobbling before moving then quite jerky.
• I think Ewa lowered her Tanken too much when taking the covering kamae
• I have a suspicion my walking back to centre with the mokuju uses what we shall call "interesting" footwork. No one told me off for it yet but it is naginata footwork and therefore probably wrong.