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Green's sword style has been bugging me for a while so after a bit a searching there is an actual technique which has the wielder holding the katana with the blade running along the arm. It called “Zatoichi style” or reverse grip. The style is named after the long running Zatoichi series of books and films but was normally called 'reverse grip'. There are a few benefits to using this style: 1: It is excellent for closed in spaces. 2) It is faster than using a normal grip. 3) It is used to immediately follow up a disarming move (where your sword would end up in this grip naturally due to the disarming technique).

More here: http://martialtraveler.wordpress.com...atoichi-style/