The folks complaining about sword rubbing are ignorant to the point of it. By applying pressure to the opponents guard with your own, you can create small openings for exit strikes. It has a point, and it's a lot more entertaining to watch when you understand it. It creates a connection between opponents and is one of the most dangerous positions to be in.
I dislike it because i dislike the excessively sporty feel of kendo, not as bad as fencing, but still not great. Staying in a sword bind, especially the way they do, is hollywood bullshit in any other form,even kenjutsu. I understand its a sport, its just sad to see a lotta japanese arts get downgraded so heavily to sporty gamey garbage, kenjutsu, modern karate, akkido... just depressing to think about
The U.S. is considered in the top 3 in the world after Japan and South Korea. Other unlikely countries that are in the top 10 include Brazil, Hungary, and Italy.
I'm writing a fan comic, and one of the characters practices this beautiful art. I looked up stills from matches to get a visual for how they worked but this my first time actually watching a match. I didn't realize just how intricate it actually is. Let's hope I can successfully do this
I’m not sure if you’re still writing the comic or not, but here’s some basic rules for kendo form, and what is required to score a point. The left foot is the back foot, right foot is forwards. The rear foot (left foot), has the heal slightly raised off the ground. In order for a strike to be valid, the rear foot must be 100% straight forward, the front foot must stomp at the same time the sword (shinai) hits the opponent, and the striker must show their fighting spirit by yelling. You can hit a person a dozen times, but they will never count if you don’t follow all those rules. (Those are just the bare basics of the art.) But maybe that little bit of information will help add to your story, (if you haven’t finished it yet.)
you may be able to find a local Kendo Dojo nearr you if you live in a larger town or city or by one. i think its well worth to see if you can attend a class and see some of it up close and understand the baisics. its a super super fun sport too
@@joshuakelley548Wow! That's impressive. I heard about this sport from my Japanese Sensai who used to perform it. It has very interesting rules. I watched couple of videos to see how it looks like. I thought it is about the speed of strikes or the speed in which oponents avoid them. Good to know the exact trick behind their moves and the reason for yelling too.
Same thing. I'm making Halo art using the leaked "Kendo" helmet from Halo Infinite. I looked up kendo so I could have an idea on how to colour the Yoroi. Now I'm on my 5th kendo video.
many see kendo as pointless but that's because it doesn't exist for the sole purpose of winning and becoming physically athletic, it's about respect and discipline above all ^_^
Kendo regulations should introduce duration time limit, when the two kendoist stay in the clash mode, too much time being giving for indecision, going on here, the referees should be able to call for clean break and reset combatants. 10 second buzzer should sound or verbal command should be made to alert combatants to reset.
So I think I will meet you becuaee my dream is to become the strongest swordsman ever in history, so you will be one of my Big obstacles. Blessings to you.
basically you'd find you can't extend your arms when up close, so you can't make a proper strike. so it's about intimidating, gaining an advantage and finding the opportunity to push back and strike.
Why was there no flag raised tp indicate a hit on the first exchange? Looked like Ando parried the attack and successfully riposted to Williams (to put it in Olympic fencing terms)
The rules are very different from fencing. In kendo when you make the strike it doesn’t count if the opponents shinai (the bamboo sword) is touching you. If you replay it you can see that is the case during that exchange.
@@apothneisko much more things than that, kendo isn't a simple hit and win sport/martial art. You need process before attacking, a good hit, good sanshin over all. If you don't feel or see a good point in the overall aspect of the attack and after attack then it is not a point. ( And your point is also true)
Japan always wins, they almost always place 1st in this competition. The U.S. beat Japan in 2006 though, only to be defeated by Korea for second place.
To anyone who wonders by they yell a lot, it is because despite that they may look calm from outside, in the inside they are feeling a huge adrenaline rush and yelling is a natural response of the human body to discharge the adrenaline. There are people who say that it is in order to proyect your ki toward your oponent but that's more about the believes the samurais had back then sincw kendo is very connected to the old traditions of the samurais.
@@user-bu4en6bi2r It is true that it can be used to spook your oponent and that sometimes those yellings are voluntary but other times those yellings and grunts are involuntary, it´s just like any other sports when people also yells or grunt when they perform a big physical effort.
There probably are, but it's a rare sport in America and this is the world finals so you're only gonna see the best in the US unless you find some way to watch regionals. I only watch nationals on RU-vid so Ive never seen regionals unfortunately
@@HGAZN6900 they should enforce it. Who wants to see boring sword rubbing. Would that happen in a real fight. This is similar to Japanese non contact karate. Two men stand there rubbing themselves waiting for a break. Years behind other countries. And this is suppose to be land of martial arts
@@marciamarcia7510 It doesn't matter if it happens in a real fight. It's not a real swordsfight. It's a Kendo match. If you eliminated everything that doesn't happen in a real swordsfight there would be nothing left. The "swords rubbing" (tsubazeria) is a legitimate kamae (stance) and contains lots of subtleties. It may look unimpressive to the untrained eye, but since they don't fight to look cool, that's ok.
@@dermaniac5205that kendo part is not entertaining at all. Japanese have weird rules. Have you seen their karate. Its like two guys having a wank! Watch world Japanese karate then get back to me. I'm 2nd Dan Taekwondo.
@@marciamarcia7510 They don't do it to entertain you. They don't care if you are entertained. This isn't Pro Wrestling. If you do Taekwondo to look cool and entertain audiences, then you haven't understood Taekwondo at all (which doesn't surprise me, since you are only 2nd Dan).
Kendo is derived from the Samurai warriors. When confronted with a sword, you’re sure as hell not going to go gung ho. You want to analyze and find the opponents weak spot. It’s a one shot ‘hit’, rather than like karate or boxing.
This isn't gekiken or HEMA, it is kendo the way of the sword. Not the way of the sword and kicking and striking. If you want something you are talking about go watch that instead. Though kicking and striking wouldn't be very effective so i doubt you will see it there either
