The earth didn’t rock, it exploded under our feet. That was the February 22 earthquake in Christchurch last year. Not long after that, when I had arrived back in Japan, the March 11 Great
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Now that Kendo World is hitting the social media scene through Facebook and Youtube, we figured it was about time we started bringing some of our content to a wider range of kendo enthusiasts. As everyone knows, each kendo sensei has different teaching methods, but it is the variation of approaches that allows us to better understand kendo overall. We thought we could help out by giving our perspective on kendo basics for practitioners of all levels.
The result is our new Youtube series called ‘Tip of the Week’. We have had quite a bit of fun making the first group of segments, and have tried to keep it as informal and accessible as possible.
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Where? the Osaka City Central Gymnasium.
When? This last 3 & 4th of December.
What? The All Japan Naginata Championship Meeting, in it's Men and Women folds
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Shimano Masahiro (8dan-Hanshi)
Traduction française par Agnès Lamon. Traduction de l’article “shinsa-in no me”, tiré du Kendo Jidai Magazine de mai 2002. Article original in Kendo World 3.4 – 2007.
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The 59th All Japan Kendo Championships
by Michael Ishimatsu-Prime
ORIGINAL ARTICLE and COMPETITOR PROFILES BELOW
It's a glorious day in Central Tokyo. We're here at the Nippon Budokan, ready for the start of the 59th AJKC. The Nihon Kendo Kata by Shimano Hanshi and Matsui Hanshi has just finished and the competition is about to begin.
I've trekked up to the very top of Honshu to check out the inaugural Maguro cup, a middle-school kendo competition held in Oma. Oma is well-known in Japan for the maguro, or yellow-fin tuna, that are caught in the tumultuous meeting of the Pacific and the Sea of Japan between Hokkaido and Honshu. They have held a local competition here for the last 36 years, but this is the first time they've held a tournament open to schools from other prefectures. As most of the teams attending have suffered since the tsunami and earthquake on 3/11, it's also meant to act as a picker-upper
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Its often said that Iaido has vital spiritual/psychological/mental and historical components to it and indeed without these facets, the art becomes 'meaningless' and nothing more than a physical exercise. Indeed some books on Iaido will devote chapters to the these ideas and again emphasis their...
Question.
What is the reason for some antique tsuba to have those holes filled with material that doesn't match and is frankly kind of ugly?
Example:
http://www.aoi-art.com/fittings/tsuba/F08411.html
In the quest to solve my terrible 9 month-long back pain (and lately, crippling sciatic pain), I've been having one-to-one core strength teaching sessions with a specialist physiotherapist. She's been helping me activate and strengthen my transversus abdominis (TA) in the deep, lower...
I was in the strange/unfortunate position of being the most "senior" person at the dojo the other day when three new beginners walked in wanting to start. I realized that while I'm comfortable going over the basics of footwork, I had never thought through what to say as far as introduction to...
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Thread Starter: Kokoro777Its often said that Iaido has vital spiritual/psychological/mental and historical components to it and indeed without these facets, the art becomes 'meaningless' and nothing more than a physical exercise. Indeed some books on Iaido will devote chapters to the these ideas and again emphasis their...
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