Whats your idea of the ideal summer vacation? Six days and five nights on the beach, sipping on a frosty beer whilst relaxing in one of those net hammock thingys? That would certainly make my top 5 list. But alas, in this month of August, the hottest period of Japan’s oppressive summer season, I have had to settle for a number further down my list of idyllic summer gettaways – the Taidai Summer Camp. As I write this (somewhat overdue) blog on the trip home, I am riding ...
Updated 26th August 2010 at 05:17 PM by kendo-bum
Recently, a new book regarding the history of kendo was released by the publishers of Kendo Nippon Magazine. The book, A Bilingual Guide to the History of Kendo, is, as its title suggests, a bilingual guide to the history of kendo. The author is Sakai Toshinobu, expert in sword history and professor at the University of Tsukuba. The English translation was done by me. The book is comprised of a number of essays outlining the earliest sword ideals ...
Une nouvelle traduction tirée de la série "Paroles de Hanshi". http://www.kendo-world.com/basecamp/...s_Trois_Ki.pdf A bientôt
Almost a year to the day, I was once again subjected to long waits, sharp needles and difficult decisions…nope, I was not on the set of the latest “Saw” horror flick, it was in fact, the annual taidai student health check. After last year’s debacle of wondering aimlessly around the school campus looking for the next place to be poked, prodded and measured, I had convinced myself this year that I would play silly buggers with some of my tests…in an attempt to ...
Updated 27th May 2010 at 08:54 AM by kendo-bum
And So It Begins After living in Dallas for about three years I was getting bored and I had been out of shape since moving to Virginia. My wife reminded me about the Kendo class I went to years earlier. I looked it up and decided to go. It was the first class time of January 2007 and in a different building but it was the same class and I recognized some of the same people. That day they were having a board meeting. I decided to stay and just listen. How many ...
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