Live kendo tournament!!

[kendokamax]

http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/jigyou/...ive/index.html

in the next few days there will be a tournament presented live on the link up.
Now it is the Judo tournament but I think tomorrow will start the girls kendo tournament.

Its the second biggest tournament in importance for the High Schooler in Japan after the All Japan inter-Hi. So very high level of kendo !

[taganahan]

do you know what time the kendo tournament starts? vancouver time if you know...

can you also tell me what those numbers at the right side tell? i'm guessing they're tv channels.

~taganahan

[kendokamax]

the numbers on the right are the court's number. In the earlier rounds there should be like 10 courts playing at the same time. There is so many teams competeting its incredible, most of them being of kyushuu area. On top of the 10 number there is a bigger butons, if you click on it you get a view of the whole tournament.

I dont know about the time , too lazy to make the time conversion :O


This tournament is actually a bit different than other kendo team tournaments. The winner stays. Which means that if the senpo (1st player on the team) wins 5 matches in a row the other team loses. In case of a hikiwake its like if both player loses. Add to this that if one guy is found of not going for getting a point they will get hansoku. So the kendo is of a really agressive tempo! Its fun to watch and you can learn lot of cool shiai techniques.

and I say go sendai koukou even thought mitsunobu sensei isnt teaching there anymore

[taganahan]

do you know how much longer i have to wait for the kendo tournament cause i have work tomorrow afternoon.

i also need to get a better video card. the reception's not that good.

~taganahan

[Kirin]

Kendo starts on 25th 8am JPN time

For those in USA, it starts at 24th 7pm est, 6pm cst, 4pm pacific

[Rularn]

They are going to have a live-feed to that link above? That is pretty cool. I don't think I have the bandwidth though for a live-feed at any good speed. Anyone gonna save/capture it for the rest of us? Thanks.

[Kirin]

Its on LIVE now!!

quality of video is not so great but.... its live!

[taganahan]

is it only womens division? why's everyone wearing white?

~taganahan

[Kirin]

Boys division starts on 27th JPN time
(26th late afternoon in US)

[taganahan]

court 3 is doing jodan

don't bother....it's already done while i was writing this one


~taganahan

[taganahan]

court 5....both kendokas are doing jodan.

~taganahan

[kendokamax]

what the hell, the video dont work for me anymore

[samurai999]

nice site! I wish the courts at our tournaments can run this smoothly.

Tim

[samurai999]

looks like dantaisen.. Did they do kojin already?

Tim

[kendokamax]

ah finaly can see it,
no they dont do individuals

its a team tournament, there is like 500 school in the guy's division participating :s