Ah, yes. [Rigidity he supposed did make it easy to read moves as well as forcing movements that otherwise should flow naturally. It was hard with how structured and rigid his personality was, but at the same time when he was in a match hand to hand there was more fluid movements; such as managing to catch Honey and then set his outside the rings to win their match.
At the second statment though, Mori put the sword away. The fact that he was 6'2" would make things a little difficult due to the size difference, the smallest person he had spared was Mitsukuni and even his cousin stood at 4'9".]