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    Grateful

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    Gessho
    , 11th March 2013 at 04:22 AM (Gessho's Blog)
    Until recently I found the end-of-class ritual in kendo of lining up in seiza and bowing to the sensei(s) to be a polite formality. When we bow (head down to just above hands placed palm-down on the floor) we all say, “Thank you very much” (どうもありがとうございました).

    Now when I do this, I feel a sense of true gratitude and it has been making me look forward to practice because I know that I will end with ...
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    Nidan

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    Gessho
    , 11th March 2013 at 03:47 AM (Gessho's Blog)
    I passed my nidan (2nd-dan) exam on March 2nd. I’d been training for this since August and I went in with a feeling of comfortable accomplishment. Whether or I would pass or not, my sense was that I was in a comfortable nexus point, between wanting to pass and also seeing this as a single way-point on a longer journey.

    My preparation for the exam was a return to the basics of kendo. An emphasis on posture, introspection, and commitment to every strike (well, mostly…that last point     ...
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    The hardest job in kendo...?

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    , 23rd October 2010 at 01:16 PM (Alex in Wonderland)
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    When I wrote this, the FIFA World Cup was in full swing. Apart from the early exit of some of the highly regarded teams, and the fantastic showing of the underdogs, perhaps the biggest on-going stories at this competition surrounded the glaring mistakes made by the world’s top football referees. What about that goal scored by a blatantly offside Tevez in the match between Argentina and Mexico? Who can forget the goal scored by Lampard against Germany that bounced over ...
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    A Bilingual Guide to the History of Kendo!!

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    , 9th August 2010 at 11:23 AM (Alex in Wonderland)
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    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 ...
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    All Of You I Won't Practice With

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    Aurélien
    , 12th October 2009 at 07:31 AM (A Kendo Experiment)
    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

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