Lately, I have been working on a budo related website and more actively on the kendo part of it. This week end, I was organizing the 'find a dojo' pages using Dwez's maps and I couldn't stop thinking how outstanding it was to see how many kendo clubs there are in the world. I saw maps of countries I didn't know before such as Latvia and other countries that i knew of but was suprised to see kendo clubs in. And it got me thinking of all the people going to practice and working towards ...
Updated 13th October 2009 at 10:20 AM by Aurélien
Here is a good video about Sumi sensei explaining kiai during a seminar. If you have more infos on where and when was this captured, please feel free to comment. Hopefully, someone who was there during the shoot of this video can tell me more about it. Thank you!
Updated 8th December 2009 at 06:12 AM by hamish (Updated video links to new format)
I've had some issues with my lower and upper spine (neck area) lately. The lower part gets sore after too much effort and my neck is jutted forward - which is a bit of a worry when it comes to receiving tsuki. I quickly realized that my past and present use of my body (lifting heavy stuff, sitting and so on...) is the opposite of healthy and efficient. What is then healthy and efficient? Well, the basic kendo posture is so far the best I could think of. Let's take our ...
Updated 29th September 2009 at 01:13 PM by Aurélien
I recently found that the law to negativism always wins. Last monday, before a fight during shiai practice, one of my dojo mates who found out who was his opponent said: 'Oh no! I'm going to lose!'. Well, he did... Last Tuesday, just before Jigeiko, another dojo mate said (while seeing the unusually high amount of higher grade on that day): 'I'm going get my ass handed to me', and it undoubtedly happened so... There I am not trying to criticize their ...
Again, I'm afraid that I won't be able to make my own bogu anytime soon but at least it helps a bit when it comes to repairing my own.
Updated 8th December 2009 at 06:11 AM by hamish (Updated video links to new format)
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