Japan has the root of kendo.

[samurai999]

seeds... i do hope for your sake that you havent tried this..

Thats where your words try to eloquently explain why you did this. LOL


Tim

[Hotei]

Personally, I wouldn't care if Kendo had originated in Cuba or on Mars. The lessons, the discipline, the excersize, the head rush, the pounding heart, these things would still be the same. . . At least for me.

I guess it does kind of come down to "Are you in it because it's Japanese?" If not, I wouldn't think it would matter. If so, will you quit if someday, someone comes forth with rock-solid evidence that Kendo originated someplace else? Or will you take it, in it's contemporary Japanese* form and run with it?

*(I'm not insinuating that I have knowledge one way or the other. The Kendo I study is Japanese; That's what I know.)