Mmhm. No point in waiting when we don't know how long of a break we'll have before you gotta put your skills to use, right?

[It's said in a lightly teasing tone, but he definitely means it... Under normal circumstances, actual sparring (even very mild training matches, which is what he has in mind) would wait for at least a few weeks. Time isn't really a luxury they have a surplus of, though.]

No secrets here, either. To train your grip, you just gotta practice your strikes. If you do 'em often enough, your muscle memory will kick in and your body will know where to go and how to hold your blade automatically. Pretty neat, right? Here, we can start off with this--

[At which point he'll move to stand next to Daisuke, dropping into a simple stance and raising his own bokuto for a straightforward strike.]

Just a downward slash, like this.