News

Now that Kendo World is hitting the social media scene through Facebook and Youtube, we figured it was about time we started bringing some of our content to a wider range of kendo enthusiasts. As everyone knows, each kendo sensei has different teaching methods, but it is the variation of approaches that allows us to better understand kendo overall. We thought we could help out by giving our perspective on kendo basics for practitioners of all levels.

The result is our new Youtube series called ‘Tip of the Week’. We have had quite a bit of fun making the first group of segments, and have tried to keep it as informal and accessible as possible. ...

There are lots of things in the news about Iran at the moment that is far from positive. Politics aside, there is a group ...

...

I've trekked up to the very top of Honshu to check out the inaugural Maguro cup, a middle-school kendo competition held in Oma. Oma is well-known in Japan for the maguro, or yellow-fin tuna, that are caught in the tumultuous meeting of the Pacific and the Sea of Japan between Hokkaido and Honshu. They have held a local competition here for the last 36 years, but this is the first time they've held a tournament open to schools from other prefectures. As most of the teams attending have suffered since the tsunami and earthquake on 3/11, it's also meant to act as a picker-upper ...

Issue 5.3 is up on the Kindle store now!!

If you have a Kindle or the Kindle app for iPad, iPhone, Android, PC or Blackberry, get at it now. If ...