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    Sensei, thank you very much for coming to the Indiana seminar. I had a great time, learned much, and have a few bruises to show for it. Have a safe trip back home.
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    Hei Gaijin... Looks like you kept busy all these years...
    I dearly hope you're OK after the quake in Christchurch.
    Drop me a line, when you have the time. Looking forward to it

    Cezar
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    Renee from Chiba Minato Rotary Club 87. Tried in past to contact you with no success (called Bennetts in NZ?? obviously wrong ones), found this site last night. Keen to say hi - feel free to send message to my email or facebook to catch up. Btw surname not changed even though married with kids.
    Renee
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    Congratulations on your sucessfull exam.
    I just saw it on kendoworld's youtube channel, and it was inspiring.

    Joaquim Coelho (a.k.a. Usagi San)
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    HI Alex, received the new budo book. Thank you very much, it was an early Christmas. Hope all is well with you.
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    Hi Alex,
    Thank you and Kendo World for keeping us up to date with the championship.
    I really appreciate and can’t wait till the next article will be posted
    With kind regards,
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    Hi: Just learned a friend will visit Kyoto in Nov - can you tell me when the 6th Dan Kendo tests are in Japan, I think 11/23 this year in Tokyo and after that...? Thanks so much!
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    Happy B-Day!
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    Hello Alex, Fantastic article on the Green Beret. There is a lot to think about in that last paragraph. Thank you very much for posting it. I look forward to the show.
    And congrats o your blooming television career.
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The Newest Dojo in the World

by Alex on 18th January 2012 at 05:37 PM
The Chuseikan Dojo in Christchurch, New Zealand

See Chuseikan Video Here!!

The earth didn’t rock, it exploded under our feet. That was the February 22 earthquake in Christchurch last year. Not long after that, when I had arrived back in Japan, the March 11 Great Tohoku Earthquake happened, followed by a massive tsunami and the unnerving nuclear disaster. In terms of scale, the Japanese earthquake was far bigger, and the casualties inconceivable. How do you come to terms

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The Kendo Bible! It’s Here Now!

by Alex on 16th April 2011 at 08:15 PM

Assisted by my brother Blake, and supervised by Satō Nariaki-sensei, for the past year I have been working hard on a translation of the Kendō Shidō Yōryō (The Official Guide for Kendo Instruction). This book, as the title suggests, is the official be-all and end-all textbook authorized by the All Japan Kendo Federation. This is the book that outlines the “correct” way of executing all of the kendo techniques, and definitions for terms and concepts. It is

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The Christchurch Quake- 12:51 pm, February 22, 2011

by Alex on 11th March 2011 at 02:30 AM
I thought it was all just superstition, but yakudoshi really are the “years of calamity”. This is a Japanese belief that people who are at the “age of yakudoshi” are likely to experience some kind of catastrophe or illness. If you believe that new-borns start at one year old (kazoedoshi), yakudoshi for men is generally believed to be the ages 25, 42 and 61, and for women 19, 33 and 37. One’s yakudoshi is measured by adding one to your actual age, and as I was born in 1970, I fall plum into the 42

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The hardest job in kendo...?

by Alex on 23rd October 2010 at 02:16 PM
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!!

by Alex on 9th August 2010 at 12:23 PM

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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