Japanology - What is Kendo ?

[isaacvas]

Surfing around the web I found this documentary.
It's been a while since I didn't see a nice true Kendo documentary and this one is quite new.. (At least for me..)

Hope you like it :
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxdVy3d9KMw
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cz-AamiX0&feature=related
Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqEHoRGYAA&feature=related

Onegai-shimasu

[sobasan7]

Surfing around the web I found this documentary.
It's been a while since I didn't see a nice true Kendo documentary and this one is quite new.. (At least for me..)

Onegai-shimasu

awesome find!

[Ryuu_Shade]

Thank you for posting this it was inspiring and an all around good watch.

[MartialArtsGirl]

Surfing around the web I found this documentary.
It's been a while since I didn't see a nice true Kendo documentary and this one is quite new.. (At least for me..)

Hope you like it :
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxdVy3d9KMw
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cz-AamiX0&feature=related
Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqEHoRGYAA&feature=related

Onegai-shimasu

wow, very nice. I like it. Thank you.

[jjcruiser]

Yes, very cool, thanks for posting.

Btw, was that just a mistake in the narration, or have I been ignorantly laboring under a misconception that only the forward (right in chudan, left in jodan) kote is a valid target?

[Edit: the video is great, but the narrator's shirt is so awful it's actually distracting! :)]

[JSchmidt]

have I been ignorantly laboring under a misconception that only the forward (right in chudan, left in jodan) kote is a valid target?



Both kote are valid targets when opponent assumes any kamae with the hands above the mune.

[isaacvas]

[Edit: the video is great, but the narrator's shirt is so awful it's actually distracting! :)]

hahaha , I know what you mean jjcruiser.. that t-shirt has life ot its own.
-Also, thanks for the clarification JSchmidt,

[Kendoka]

Surfing around the web I found this documentary.
It's been a while since I didn't see a nice true Kendo documentary and this one is quite new.. (At least for me..)

Hope you like it :
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxdVy3d9KMw
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cz-AamiX0&feature=related
Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqEHoRGYAA&feature=related

Onegai-shimasu

... and theres KW's Alex at 1 minute 12 seconds in to part 1.

[Karaken]

Both kote are valid targets when opponent assumes any kamae with the hands above the mune. Please correct me if I'm wrong but the last ippon kote looks like scored whit the opponent in Chudan.

[Lloromannic]

Yes, on the opponents right kote.

[Usagi San]

Both kote are valid targets when opponent assumes any kamae with the hands above the mune.

As a matter of fact, I learned both kote are valid targets when the kamae is not chudan-kamae, and also if the adversary uses, for some reason, hidari-chudan-kamae, then the left kote is also a valid target.

[PatrickM]

Thanks for uploading. I really enjoyed it. The one armed Kendoka, what a spirit.