Jodo

Jodo, "The Way of the Stick" has a curriculum that takes the practitioner through a series of ever more complex steps of wielding the stick against the sword.  Eventually a very old style of kenjutsu or sword fighting is learned.  Jodo also incorporates the tanjo, a shorter stick, the jutte or truncheon, the kusarigama or sickleand chain and a rope tying art called hojojutsu.  Like Iaido there are forms or kata to be learned within the Koryu as well as practice sets for when diverse groups come together to train.