Forum: Training

I really want to learn kendo but the closes school is a 6 hour drive from where I live. I'm wondering if there are any good online resources,books or videos for learning kendo from home.

I've been in bogu for about a month, and training for several. Every practice I go to, I come home with some nasty bruise from people hitting too hard, mostly on the kote (even though I wear a kote protector), last week on my side above where the do protects, and I think one spot under the do. ...

Okay, I'm trying to phrase this in a way that doesn't seem like naive rambling or simple impatience, I think you need to understand my background in Kendo to best assist me. I've been training for a year and a 2 weeks now and I've had 1 'real' match at mumeishi 3's last year(which I lost in 20 to...

After Sunday practice I had a younger student, not by age but experience, he came up to me and asked what was the easiest way to deal with the newly forming blisters on his feet I never tried to deal with them myself so I had no idea and naturally I was embarrassed about not being able to answer....

Hi I have been doing kendo for about a year now and I have recently thought about taking Iaido whilst continuing with kendo. What I wanted to know is whether this could effect my kendo in anyway and if it does, should I even try Iaido at all. I began my kendo late(1 week before my 16th birthday)...

Just had first class with Yamakage Dojo and it was great. It wound up being just me and one other person, but he took the time to show me the basics and that was definitely appareciated. It was also ... a lot more difficult than I expected. I mean I expected it to be difficult but it was...

Sooo tonight was the second week in a row that I wound up practicing alone. Not a problem, since right now is a busy time for anyone college aged. Just going ahead and practicing suri ashi and such, as I was shown. Buuuut ... does anyone have any suggestions on repetitions or time management or...

Hello, I'm new here, and thought about performing some thread necromancy, but couldn't find a thread that fit just right, so I figured I would create a new one. (I hope people don't mind). Anyway, I practice at Choyokan Kendo Dojo in the Chicagoland area, and have been for a little over a year...

To train my left arm for practicing Jodan I have took up Katate subori with 1kg suborito. with the grip do I grip the end of Tzuka like where I normally have my left hend. Will it still training my left arm when do subori gripping middle of Tzukawa? regard

How do y'all feel about spending an entire practice doing ji-keiko, no kihon? Last Saturday we started with kirikaeshi and then did an hour and a half of free practice. It was fun and challenging, but I could barely lift my arms by the end.

This is just to ask opinions, if you have take a break from kendo for more than six months in the past, can you please answer the following questions: 1) what's the reason you stop practicing, e.g. work, health, relocation...etc 2) what make you want to practice kendo again? 3) how long does...

So over the last 6 months or so I've noticed my achillies tendon getting tighter and tighter even though I stretch on a regular basis. It's come and gone but mostly come, it's feels so tight now that I'm more than a little concerned about tearing it. In the morning I have to stretch it just to...

I am posting this to gather oppinions about training and having combat with heavy kendokas, since I am light around 60 kg and 1.7 meters tall I am commonly overwhelm by taller and foremost heavier kendokas, therefore I have to keep my distance and avoid tai atari, more than once I have been sent...

http://www.physorg.com/news198169672.html Previous studies have shown that variable practice improves the brain's memory of most skills better than practice focused on a single task. Cognitive neuroscientists at USC and UCLA describe the neural basis for this paradox in a new study in Nature...