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I never thought about that before... I do now and it makes me laugh!

Hey yall,

If you have troubles listening through the blog, I now have an itunes channel, just go on the itunes store and enter 'kendo' in the search bar. You'll get a selection of results...

Couldn't edit, I hope it'll be fine.

Ok ok! I see whats happening there. It was late yesterday when I've put the link up and I spent the whole day getting this blog live so I made a litlle f**k up.

Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry...
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Hello, thanks for the feedback, someone else told me that. It does work but it's a flash based player so you need to install flash player. I've just put a link on the blog to go straight to the flash...

Hey KWF guys and gals,

I just wanted to let you know that Kendo-pod blog is live. It is a podcast about kendo. It's the very beginning and I ask for your kindness when it comes to my crappy accent...

That's one nice tsuba there! If it's a work departure and give a personnal present such as a kendo feature, it's kinda nice because it shows you care about the person by giving something this person...

Hey Alicia,

Nice, very nice. You guys down south come up with great stuff aye!

A little trick I use to explain fumukomi to kyu is the back push. I have done only on one to one occasions but I...

Cesarekim: Well, the handycam is mine, I usually use it to make some short movies. So this isn't really from our dojo's budget. That day we had a seminar where all the members where filmed on 2 x 2...

We had a seminar a couple of months ago and I usually am in charge of documenting with pictures and videos the event. While sorting out my photos today to put them on facebook (damn facebook, what...

Inner Silence:

If you take all the humanity out of emotions to describe them as simple chemical reaction in the brain then... what's left to life?

Hi Kokiri,

I might get a little philosophycal here but hey, if anyone can't be bothered reading, please just don't and have a bit of a laugh on the 'Joke Of The Day' thread.

I see kendo as the...

Hi xvikingx,

Thanks for your reply. I feel like a rookie who didn't use the search button now...

Hi everyone,

I'll be in Tokyo for 3 days in May and I was wondering if anyone could point me towards a nice kendo shop which sells these: Mune-chichikawa, do-chichikawa and other bits and bolts to...

Thanks guys, I'm a little bored at work and you made me laught!

Bravo22, I'm not trying to justify it here, I'm just saying that's the way it is. To refuse it is to avoid looking at reality. Nowadays, only very few care about the right or wrongdoing following a...

Ok, nowadays, people sell, people buy, fine. If there are people who want to buy the sword, why should there be no one to sell it? A market is a market, whatever the ideal that swords martial...

Here is where I train at the Auckland Kendo Club.

:smiley:

Have a look at Haedong Kumdo. There are quite a few videos on youtube. This a traditional korean sword martial art. It combines really well the manipulation of the sword and the dance ballet. :lick:

Quite nice drawing there. However, her Do is a bit too large for her body size, it takes off a bit of her potential... sexyness. :square:

Thank you all for your advices. I guess the answer is always to practice practice practice. Thanks again.

Thanks for your advices. Thanks Alicia, yea you might be right, I'm still confused about the names as well.



Yea, I tried to get a bit more distance but to be able to suck (as Trent just said)...

Hi everyone,

I had a waza practice yesterday mainly focus on harai - waza type. I just can't get it, the distance and timing. If I wait (as explained by sensei) until the swords starts coming...

One of our sempai favourite closing liner just before the end of practice:

"Today, you just added one more layer on your kendo sandwich."

Sure, it will cost Ippon!