Kendo in Japan

[TreasureHouse]

Hi, I am an Japanese English teacher and also a kendo coach at a high school in Japan.
I have a question. Have you ever played kendo in Japan? How often?
We have many foreign teachers who do. I would like to take a short poll.
Thank you.
:D

[JSchmidt]

I voted no, but it should be a 'Not yet' :D

Jakob

[durrell4]

I studied as a researcher at Osaka University for a year and a half. Played kendo while I was there. I suspect that a number of the JET type folks pick up kendo while in Japan.

[kendo_chick]

I will be studying for 1 year and possibly 6 months more starting next summer.

[Charlie]

I had to answer no. But I wish I had/could!

[KhawMengLee]

when I get my shodan!
sigh the last time I went I wasn't into kendo yet...:(

[reicheru]

I'm just starting my second year here (and about to kick it off in a dramatic way with 3 days of kendo hell -- would be 6 if i had more vacation days). Other than not really understanding most of what the sensei say, I love training in Japan, and I highly recommend coming here if you get the chance!


I suspect that a number of the JET type folks pick up kendo while in Japan.

I'm a JET, but I started kendo before coming to Japan (kendo is probably the biggest reason I became interested in Japan and applied to the JET Program). I do know one other JET though who has "picked it up" since coming (2 years ago), and he just got his shodan last month...

Rachel

[stinkyKote]

Hey Kendo Chick, how'd you manage to find work in Japan? Did you go through a Canadian agency, or did you find something on your own?

[8 Chips]

I was lucky enough to practice in Nagoya a few months back, what an incredible experience it was!! I hope to return to Japan next year.

[Hongsermeier]

I have practiced in Kagoshima while on vacation there. Unfortunatley it's only for two weeks at a time. My wife grew up playing Kendo there. We will be having a baby boy soon and hopefully he will be interested and I can take him there to learn.

[Danny Boy]

Unfortunetly no :(

But as Charlie said, i wish could get the chance to eventually.

[GMason]

I was lucky enough to go over to Japan in Feb of this year. Practiced in Kyoto and Osaka.

Practiced @

2 of Kyoto's Uni clubs
My Japanese friends company Dojo
Butokoden (SP?)
My friend, friends company dojo

I was lucky enough to be staying with a Japanese 6th Dan so we where taken to amazing practice's all over Kyoto.

[saki_wooah]

woa... I read all your messages about japan... it looks great! I hope I will practice there one day.. problably in 10 years or something like that... no cash and im too young to work... Japan looks great, but i'll stick to my dojo in Montreal for now...