User blog comment:Appelmonkey/Rematch: Samurai vs. Knights/@comment-27358240-20180821015921/@comment-27358240-20180821042025

As far as I've seen, a lot of people spoke as if the uchigatana couldn't stab at all. And also, I don't see why it would be hard to stab with a uchigatana.

And about the nodachi, the Jigen-ryu was officially formed 400 years ago, a little after the end of the Sengoku era, but the creator of the school was a samurai who fought suring the Sengoku and the whole style was based on previously existing techniques, so yes, the techniques I've learned have pretty much stayed the same during the past centuries. Heck, they might have dulled because of the whole "killing is bad" thing.