We're drawing from 3 schools of Japanese sword - Seitei, Iwama, and Kukkishinden.
We'll develop sword sets later but for now we'll just setup a curricululm from the varius ryu.
Suburi
Sets you practice on your own.
Kumi Tachi - sword practice with a partner.
Kihon - the basic targets:
Men - head
Do -body
Kote - hand
Tsuki - thrust
Kirikaeshi - 5 step sword drill
Taiatari - a "chi ken" drill, like an NRG drill
5 sets where you attack
5 sets counterattack
mutodori -unarmed sword evasion
ken dori - unarmed sword taking
That should be enough to be going along with.
We also adapt certain largo and serrada drills for sword play.
Since 2013 Kenjutsu with the bokken has been a regular STMA practice. Anyone can acquire a bokken at any grade and learn then practice the sword.
We have 5 drills done in the 8 step format:
Kirikaeshi - kendo drill, front stance, showmen cut, alternating parries - 10 steps
Cut and parry advance
Cut and thrust - alternate steps
we also use the largo mano 5 step drill, using the 2 hand katana grip
and the 8 step single krabi drill
Iaido is the art of drawing and cutting with a live sword, a real sword
though it can be learnt with the bokken, at some point a serious student will want to acquire a real katana for real iai practice
there are 12 basic Seitei kata and these can be learnt with the bokken before applied with katana
there are bunkai - partner applications, which are done with bokken
Once the 12 Seitei forms have been learnt a student will learn kata from a particular school or Ryuha. Normally these will only be taught on the Katana to serious students. No sensei would teach a ryuha's iai on bokken.
There are 4 parts to an iai form:
nukisuki - drawing
kiritsuki - the cut
chiburu - shaking blood from the sword
noto - resheathing
The "quick draw" concepts of iai then apply to other weapons - drawing a throwing a shuriken, drawing and arrow from the quiver to the bow to shoot, and drawing and firing a gun from it's holster
