Backyard Ninjas

[keima]

And I live in MA.
To be serious in a duel means you have to have the will to win and to lose is to be shamed. Back then the samurai who survived losing duels killed themselves. But it is not the case now, if we try our hardest to win and still lose we know and have something to improve on. That is what i mean by serious fights.

[ender84567]

serious duel is to kill or be killed, shame is not an option. again refer to musashi sensei as was illustraited earlier. EDIT: and again in theory there wouldnt be an oppertunity to kill themselves their aite wouldnt let them just stand around and go home... again in theory all actual duels were shinken shobu, even if you just lost a limb in thoese days you might as well be dead at that point due to infection.

[ender84567]

sorry for double post, but kendo is serious, at the point where you do reigi and go to tai-to you better be ready to kill or be killed, or you are little more than cutting practice for aite. Thats IMHO the proper attitude for kendo.

[ScottUK]

In the dojo they just have me hit other people in bogu and do kidikiaishi etc.

So basically you were an absolute beginner for a year?

[Mr. T.]

keima,

I don't know man. You do 7 MA, that's way to much to learn something useful. You'll mix up the different arts and progress in all arts will be slow or none at all at some point. If you're really serious, stick with 1 or 2. Take lessons until you have a sufficient level, then start with the next.

I still don't get how you've enough time to do all this stuff and still go to school. Besides I don't think your sensei will be happy if he found out what your doing to his beautiful art. You’re basically raping kendo (just my opinion) for your own entertainment. You don’t sound serious about kendo, you sound like a guy that just want to learn how to swing a shinai and the moves on to the next art. This way you’ll never learn an art properly. If you’re serious about kendo, wait until you understand the basics (shodan) before continuing this kind of nonsense. That way you will have some idea about proper sword techniques and swordfighting.

[F0cUzzzz]

Keima,

Mixed martial arts sword fighting is an exciting idea for sure. Fogive me for getting the wrong impression from your videos and messages on YouTube. When I hear things like "hit him in the knee" and "come on pussy" I don't generally think of somebody with any respect for martial arts. Good luck on your journey to learning all 7 of your martial arts.

[keima]

This is something the shodan said to me "lets go again on thursday, i feel so bad about losing, but hey at least i can take you in kendo."

But yes you are right, i am a beginner at kendo (never said i wasn't)

As for different martial arts, it is because i move around a lot and there are different dojos everywhere i go. I did gong fu for the longest but ever since i moved away for school, i had not been able to continue that but did find a nice jujutsu and muay thai school to train with. And i am in the fencing team for my school too. There are also clubs where they teach European combat styles and I am friends with those guys so we spar and learn from eachother. My school also offers karate as gym credit so i am doing that as well, also i had karate ranking back when i was a teeenager.

Kill or to be killed ideal... cant agree more, but also remember that my oponent is my friend self control is necesary when landing the strike but everything before that, is that ideal

[keima]

O 1 other thing, cameraman is always trying to be funny. Hence the "get him in the knee" and "common pussies"

We all get a laugh out of it afterwards but we dont want it as a disrepect to the martial art.

and i'd be just doing kendo for this whole summer but afterwards, i dont know.

[Kenzan]

Is it me, or does the "Shodan" in the video not move like I would expect a Shodan to.
Where's the extension? Where's the Kime?
And why would a Shodan participate in such a thing?
Without Bogu? With a Bokken?
Something is strange here.
What am I missing?
Am I wrong?

[Hank]

IT IS DISRESPECT!!!

I agree completely. Please stop posting and leave.

[rottunpunk]

i agree with kenzan.
i just had a look at the other videos.
so which one is the shodan?
because i was better than that after 2 weeks and my technique is hopeless.
what i meant by videoing some proper stuff is maybe take your camera down to a training session, then post some real training on youtube, not backyard ninjer stuff
if you know your teacher wouldnt be happy with what you are doing, why do it?
good luck in mastering your 7 arts btw

[Mr. T.]

As for different martial arts, it is because i move around a lot and there are different dojos everywhere i go. I did gong fu for the longest but ever since i moved away for school, i had not been able to continue that but did find a nice jujutsu and muay thai school to train with. And i am in the fencing team for my school too. There are also clubs where they teach European combat styles and I am friends with those guys so we spar and learn from eachother. My school also offers karate as gym credit so i am doing that as well, also i had karate ranking back when i was a teeenager.

Kill or to be killed ideal... cant agree more, but also remember that my oponent is my friend self control is necesary when landing the strike but everything before that, is that ideal

The fact that a shodan does this kind of stuff surprises me. It shows little respect towards kendo (just my opinion). Again, does the sensei know what you are doing; I don't think he would like this. The shodan should be ashamed. Taking part in a sword MMA experiment ok, but this is just bashing around for entertainment.

Doubt you will ever be good at any of these arts. Just to many different styles. You'll just mix them up, not good if you want to progress. Why don't pick 1 or 2 and be good at them instead of doing that much and be average at all of them? It sounds like you want to much, maybe it's time to grow up and make choices and focus on them instead of doing a little bit of everything.

Now what do you mean with European fighting styles? Just curious.

[keima]

European Style = long sword, saber, epee, foil, saber, hand and a halfs

the fact that the shodan would do it is because we have been friends since he was a freshman in high school. I held a martial arts club and taught him kung fu. I didnt know kendo then but he introduced me. (back then i was only doing 1 style but i explained what happened)

Again i explain that we both agreed that it would be disrespect to our sensei if we did this in front of them, i mean this is not kendo its just a fight. But the true reason is to see how a kendoka would fair against other styles and vice versa.

Now can someone draw the line of having personal dueling practice and disrespecting kendo?

[Ignatz]

. . .i mean this is not kendo its just a fight. . .

No, it is a couple of wieners hitting each others sticks because they are afraid of getting hit. It is something that a lot of kids who don't have the discipline to stick with kendo do.
Your seven martial arts are probably junk too because you do a little then quit and say that you can start your own thing.

[keima]

o for those of you who wants to compare taichi saber (not taichi sword) and katana

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my gong fu school used bokkens as taichi sabers due to similarities. Its easier to find a padded bokken that is the reason y.