How to practice Katsuramuki with Yanagiba

Tip #1

Don’t use cucumber for practice


Tip #2
Practice with sauce dispenser
( or soda can)


This is for grasping the very basic of katsuramuki.


Your left hand does only one thing.
To rotate the daikon radish.


Your right hand does only one thing.
To move the knife back and forth.


You do these two movement simultaneously.


If you move the knife but not rotating daikon at the same time,
the daikon sheet will get cut off.


If you don't move the knife, it won't cut into daikon.
(So you'll force it, then it slips and you'll end up cutting your finger.)


If one side of daikon sheet gets thicker than the other side, that's an indication of unnecessary movement of your wrist.


Close the elbows, lock the wrist.
Practice with some cylindrical shaped object.
You don't need to use daikon radish all the time to practice.