Suburi
Suburi is a Japanese word for practice swings used in sports such as baseball, tennis, golf, and in martial arts. Outside Japan, the word is used exclusively for repetitive individual cutting exercises used in Japanese martial arts such as kendo, aikido, iaidō, and kenjutsu. Often a shinai, bokken, suburitō, or even tanren bō are used. An iaitō or shinken can also be used, albeit rarely.
Some common types :
;katate-suburi
;haya-suburi
;chōyaku-suburi
;jōge-suburi
;naname-suburi
;shōmen-suburi
;zenshin-kōtai-shōmen-suburi
;sayū-men-suburi
Suburi is used as a warm up before actual practice begins, usually done in sets of ten, though sometimes sets of 100 are used. Suburi serves to loosen the wrists and elevate heart rate.
