All Japan's Final Up Now!

[hamish]

The final of yesterday's All Japans is up on the downloads page now, check it out!!
Unfortunately Harada loses, but there's no doubt about the point.

Hamish

[litige]

Woaw Thanks!

Just watched it....that's some beautiful men right there on the money! hehe

[asian_knight]

Thanks. Just saw it too. Nice quick men at the end.

[kendokamax]

hummmmmmmmm what the.....

this is a strange final..

did you notice that suzuki almost never goes full in? he looks so cautious..

[darkluc3]

mmh, i cant find it on the english page, is it only on the japanese one ? if yes could you post the link ? thx

[JSchmidt]

Hmm..messy final.

Jakob

[Mr.Tvola]

Cooooool ippon! Looks like fine katsugi men.

I very much like Harada's footwork.

[Andoru]

Yeah looks like a very well timed katsugi men. Harada must have lost concentration at that moment at such a close maai.

[asian_knight]

a lot of tsuki attempt too.

[hamish]

Darkluc3, its at the top of the multimedia page, you shouldn't be able to miss it, and there is a link going from the main page of the site.

There were a few tsuki being scored this year, notably Ando, who lost to one.

[amatsuda]

Yeah looks like a very well timed katsugi men. Harada must have lost concentration at that moment at such a close maai.
Actually you could see this coming....Suzuki changes his Kendo around the 8:00 minute mark after Harada strikes that big kote....

If you notice, he goes on the offensive by using strong seme, parrying Harada's attacks and doesn't let Him in...He then keeps Harada on the defensive by backing him up by striking kote several times before going for the large waza....A classic textbook example of "shitakara-ue"

amatsuda

[Andoru]

Well observed Matsuda sensei! You're very right indeed!

Could you please elaborate on "shitakara-ue"? Oneigaishimasu!

[JSchmidt]

Darkluc3, its at the top of the multimedia page, you shouldn't be able to miss it, and there is a link going from the main page of the site.

There were a few tsuki being scored this year, notably Ando, who lost to one.
I noticed that with last years as well..but as they're all fighting at very close distance its not that big a suprise...in general, it's become very messy and not (IMHO) a good advocate for kendo.

Jakob

[heri0n]

hey hamish
do you have any more videos to put up?
and is it possibly you could encode them at higher quality?

[kendokamax]

thank you hammish! great semi finals!

chikamoto's kendo is really cool!

would be nice to see the match of sato mitsunobu too ! haha you guys would rock if you would put it online :D

lasuto request desu!

[mingshi]

?!?! Am I the only one who can't got to see the point in that jumpy encho clip?

[kendokamax]

?!?! Am I the only one who can't got to see the point in that jumpy encho clip?
the kote of suzuki??

[Mr.Tvola]

I would say for sure it is nice de-kote of Suzuki (red)...

BTW thanks KW team for sharing the videos, good job :)