How to practice in home?

[Kid]

Hey, I am new in Kendo and I have a problem of practing Kendo in my house. Everytime I practice, I hit the ceiling. My Kendo dojo is very far from my house, so I only go to for 2 lessions for a week. However, I feel my effort is not enough, and I try to do in my house. But it seems not working. Any suggestion? I wondering anyone know where I can buy
any wood floor that you can piece together and it can stable on the any kind of ground (cement ground), does it exist in this world?

[nodachi]

This was talked about a lot in another thread, but I forget which one. Do some hunting. Some of things that worked for others to highlight a few: practice suburi from seiza, create a shorter shinai by sawing a crappy/broken one and putting tons of nails in the end of it to give it weight closer to that of a real shinai, and there were lots of others. And I know its frickin' cold out, but you may just need to practice outside with jacket and winter gear when the weather is every so slightly warmer than it usually is. Gotta hope for those warmer temperatures and take advantage of those days when they come.

[David J]

http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=108&highlight=mini+shinai

[KATSUJIN]

do ur haya-suburi from sonkyo position....not only do u avoid ur ceiling...it also builds up ur leg strength.....also do straight and center shomen from sonkyo.....only problem is u can't do joge-buri.....but u can do shomen, sayumen and haya-suburi....

[Atama]

Practice outside...that way you don't smash any light bulbs or put big dints in your ceiling...your neighbours might think your a lil bit psycho but hey ...who cares

[Kid]

the problem is......the ground in the outside.....is made of cement....my feet will......

So, thats why I wish I can find some kind of wood floor that allow you to place outside....anyone got an idea?

[nodachi]

I actually practice outside on the cement from time to time. When the ground ain't cold of course. I can't do things like haya suburi (sp?) but your feet will get used to it. In the beginning it is icky, but if you work into it slowly then you feet will kinda slide like they should. Of course I am one of those people who are barefoot all the time so it wasn't a big transition for my feet.

[Kid]

cement ground? you sure? I thought your feet will turn RED if you slide on that. I trie, the result was pretty bloody. The ground is very rough though.......

[nodachi]

OHHH!!! Bloody is definitely bad. The cement that I practice on outside is pretty smooth so it only gives me calouses (bad spelling, you know those things you get when you skin hardens).

[kendokamax]

well you dont need to train every part of kendo outside of the dojo....maybe just do some suburi and that would be already a great benifit...

personaly i never do any suburi at home because i am too lazy and would make too much noise. But I fool around with my shinai a lot, so I try to think how i am doing suburi more than just doing them...it's a lazy attitude ...I just cant do workout alone, i need people to push me around. So at home I try more to think how I am doing my kendo and how I could try new things at the dojo to make it better, rather than just make 2000 suburi every day..

I wish I had the discipline to do that(suburi training), but I dont have it yet, and my dog barks a lot when I do any suburi. so its quite annoying!!

[Kid]

How about Martial Art Mat? I found many people practice on mat, can Kendo work on mat?

[KhawMengLee]

Max: Don't wish or think you will do it. Just, as Nike says, do it. One of my sempais told me the other day that one should be able to do 200 hiya suburi at one cut per second. His words were, "if you can't do this, you aren't fit enough for kendo." (well, I can't do 200 non stop yet)

But 50 or 100 would take you less than 3 minutes. In just 10 minutes you can do a decent work out.

you can do:

20 joge buri(all the way down), 20 joge buri (side cuts all the way down), 20 men, 20 sayu men.

rest...a few seconds

20 kote men, 20 men in horse riding stance.

rest

50 haya suburi(or 100). rest, and then do another 50 as fast as you can...fin

[Kid]

How about Martial Art Mat? I found many people practice on mat, can Kendo work on mat?

[kendokamax]

kendo doesnt really work well on mat

[Haowen]

Any reason why you can't wear shoes and practice outside?

[nodachi]

I can't seem to get my sliding foot work to happen on the cement if I am wearing shoes. Any thoughts on this? Although that does get you out from under a roof.

[KATSUJIN]

not a good idea to practice ashi while wearing shoes...not only does it spoil ur footwork...it also burns a hole in ur wallet.....