High School Girls Kendo Championship

[Lady_Kitsune]

Love this three part video and love the winners uniform.

Part 1 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4WNOOXQX6fE)

Part 2 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=y_OvNuUBxSg)

Part 3 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=NKXUe8WZjRI)

[Bokushingu]

wow. they are so little...but nice matches.

[Seiza_Seizure]

Part 3,The last Do Cut was totally sick!!

[Lady_Kitsune]

Why is that?

[The Limp]

They're very combative. It was very nice to watch, thanks!

[Kenzan]

I watched these videos last night at my daughter's request, as she will commence Kendo this month.

These are pretty energetic.
:D

[Lady_Kitsune]

That's what I liked the most of this vid. They were so energetic and they want so much to achieve a goal, not necesarily winning, but you can see they put all their hearts in it.

[EBP2K2]

i watched the part 3.. pretty tame and clean in comparison to some of the other videos of the HS girls i've seen, omg they take no prisoners.

[kendokamax]

i watched the part 3.. pretty tame and clean in comparison to some of the other videos of the HS girls i've seen, omg they take no prisoners.

ya but you have to consider that this is the final of High School Kendo championship.

[Seiza_Seizure]

Why is that?

Sorry "Lady_Kitsune" I think I may have confused you, and probably others.Where I reside in Australia sometimes we say things which have an opposite meaning. What I meant to say was, that Do cut was totally awesome.
So, if something is sick, it means it is really, really good.
Hope that clears it up!

[Lady_Kitsune]

Completely and yeah, I thought at first in the English meaning of the expression. :smiley:

[Rob W.]

So, if something is sick, it means it is really, really good. Hope that clears it up!

Oh we say that in the U.S. as well. Mostly skaters, bmx kids and punks.

[dwez]

I want to do kendo like a high school girl! I'm worried though, is this how Chris Langham got started [UK reference]?

[Kenshi]

Just finally clicked on this. I actually went to this championship... it was last year in Kyoto. Ive got the whole NHK broadcast as well but I have no way to put it up.

More info on the high-school champs: they last 3 days and are held in a different city every year. They are called "Inter-high" here in Japan and its the most important High-School kendo event in the calender (there are 3 important events, this, gyokuriki, and ... I forget).

If you want to see some pictures from that competition, then please click here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/eikenkai/tags/interhigh/).

[Lady_Kitsune]

Did you try yousendit.com?

[musicdropout@ho]

i just started training in kendo...is this what all the matches are like??? i'm scared and excited at the same time! my butt it totally gonna get handed to me whenever i start matches. ^_^