Kendo is a martial art about the way of the sword, first and foremost. Kendo competitions is rather two practitioners competition on who has better sword techniques, better timing, distancing, and "seme", and who creates better opportunities for the attack. It's about showing your better understanding of the sword and better application of sword techniques. It is NOT and has never been in history an emulation of a "realistic sword fight combat". You are not trying to win by killing the opponent, real or imaginary. You are not trying to win by wrestling. In a way, it is still a competition about katana "practice" of "dueling" in peaceful times, instead of a street fight simulation. For the latter, you carry a gun. Kendo focuses on techniques of the sword. Physicality is one aspect, but kendo is deliberately made so that people of different physical conditions can journey in this martial art by practicing the way of the sword. That's why close quarter wrestling is not allowed, but tsubazeriai still exists as proper sword techniques, meaning that when you close in distance, you fight for the center with your sword and try to find an opportunity to attack, typically by hiki waza (literally meaning back-hitting techniques, as in you take a step back to create a proper distance to cut). Therefore, in normal kendo matches, you will see two kendoka trying to create the opportunity to attack and win over opponents defense from a distance. When you inevitably close in together, you fight for the center with your SWORD, not by WRESTLING with your opponent. You try to use your SWORD to win. This usually happens pretty fast and does not involve prolonged and ridiculous physical contact with swords on each others neck. The reason that you see the sword on neck is also because at times the japanese kendoka is annoyed that the Korean fights keep at the close quarter position and try to wrestle. They put the sword on their neck, almost conveying a message "wtf are you doing? I've got you. You're dead. Stop messing around. Do proper kendo. Fight with me fairly." The Korean kendoka in this video constantly tries to just stay in the close quarter position and almost wrestle with the opponent by throwing the opponent off, capitalizing on their taller height. The purpose is to avoid sword fights from a proper distance, and rely on scoring a point by just throwing the oppoent's guard off. It's not good kendo and certainly not "way of the sword". Ridiculously, whenever the Japanese competitors physically overwhelm them, they almost always immediately fall so that the referee calls a pause. This does not happen usually in a respectable match. To make an analogy, it would be as if two soccer teams play against each other, and one of them's tactic completely relies on fouls or almost fouls. It's not beautiful soccer for sure and one wouldn't tell their friends "hey this is how soccer looks like". After covid, this prolonged close quarter position is no longer allowed and referee would tell them to separate if no one is trying to do anything with the sword or one is trying to push or throw the other one. Much better matches imo.
I already knew Kendo before reading lookism but its just that now whenever I think of Kendo in general it reminds me of Goo Kim from Lookism manhwa idk why lol
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저는 일본인입니다. 한국인의 관객은 나쁜 행위를 하고 있다고 나도 생각합니다만, RU-vid의 코멘트란에 있어서도, 일본인이 필요 이상의 입 더러운 말로 한국을 받고 있는 것은 정말로 죄송합니다. 그러면 관계는 좋아지지 않습니다. 공격당하고 공격을 반환하는 것은 정말 좋은 일이 아니다! 한국의 검도가가 검도를 사랑하고 예의 바르게 상대를 존중하며 연습에 힘쓰는 모습을 많이 보고 있습니다. 언젠가 서로 강한 상대를 존경하는 세계가 되면 좋네요!
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