Kendo can lead to to KICK ASSED-NESS!!!!

[Yoshito]

Check it out~

http://www.kendo.lv/video/kendo03.avi :devious:

[Michiyo Akimoto]

That link didn't work for me...hmm.
Rats.

[Charlie]

Waaahhh! I can't see it, either! It's all multi-colored fuzz.

[Neil Gendzwill]

I think it's a DIVX codec, download either the DIVX player or install the codec and you should be able to see it.

Intermediate kendo player vs a not very good wma guy, not all that interesting.

[Kapplow]

I think it's a DIVX codec, download either the DIVX player or install the codec and you should be able to see it.

Intermediate kendo player vs a not very good wma guy, not all that interesting.

here you go...

I know I should want nothing to do with these ppl but...

I would love to get a posse of kendoka together to reign death on these morons.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5336257462674371218&q=live+action+role+playing

[Munnin]

WMA?

Bla bla bla for length.

[kendokamax]

here you go...

I know I should want nothing to do with these ppl but...

I would love to get a posse of kendoka together to reign death on these morons.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5336257462674371218&q=live+action+role+playing


What are you talking about. These people look quite dedicated and are having fun. Do you really think kendo is that hot to look down on people?

[Neil Gendzwill]

They're just a bunch of LARPers, harmless fun.

[Sprenger]

Requisite "lightning bolt" video. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3955486939380985268&q=lightning+bolt)

[Neil Gendzwill]

Sorry, WMA == Western Martial Arts, in other words a European sword recreationist. He was wearing a steel helm and chain (I think) and using a shinai single-handed. The kendoka kept tapping the helm (for all the good that would do) but then the WMA guy wasn't swinging with any authority either.

[mystic_kendoka]

I don't think either 'competitors' were good enough/confident enough to compare the two arts properly.
I don't know much about western swordsmanship, but the kendo was completely lacking kiai...

[samurai999]

here you go...

I know I should want nothing to do with these ppl but...

I would love to get a posse of kendoka together to reign death on these morons.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5336257462674371218&q=live+action+role+playing


LIGHTNENING BOLT FTW!!!! hahaha

Tim

[Kapplow]

LIGHTNENING BOLT FTW!!!! hahaha

Tim


I dont think you can see it but the spells are "cast" with a tissue or rag filled with rice or beans. If it hits you, you have to do whatever the "spell" dictates.


hehe

[kendokamax]

oh shit i didnt see the lightning bolt thing

[lemi]

the video is too long and too boring, if you'd ask me...

[Rohr]

Check this one out ^^... its a bit older, but freaking funny.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2566092061350483570&q=Reno+911

[samurai999]

oh shit i didnt see the lightning bolt thing

lightening bolt is from another video.

Tim

[KHuang]

haha D&D nerds . funny stuff .

[Omnis]

I love how they're sliding around so much on that floor. The WMA guy looked like he was just trying to keep from falling over.

Swordfight On Ice.

[Twobitmage]

I dont think this is a good representation. its a so-so kendo guy against someone who is moving around and (it looks like) trying not to fall because for some reason he's wearing slippery boots.

I have more respect for european martial arts than that. I'd like to see an expert in A.R.M.A. cross swords with a Kenjutsu instructor.

that would be an interesting thing to watch.

[Newbie]

Sorry, I thought that was pretty dumb. I also hate people comparing different fighting styles.

I haven't scene medieval larpers, but SCA (society of creative anachronism) fights I've seen have been rather a lot faster and more brutal so it was hardly indicitive of medieval swordsmanship.

Blah. Maybe I'm being too serious but I don't like things being a case of "this fighting style is better than that one" when clearly used in situations that weren't applicable to the development of the art/style.

[Omnis]

http://www.thearma.org has some pretty cool videos. Those guys are pretty for real.

[Rohr]

That makes me mad how the kendoka keeps moving back and back and back @1:35... it doesn't show very good... eh, I forgot the word... oh well, i'll do some research later on(where you do not think about throwing your own life away at all).