Jodan No Kamae (Kendo) - my first two years | Peter Tomasz 

Hard work, hard work, and .... hard work! Thanks for the inspiring record of your journey!

I recently started practicing jodan due to my injury. Your video is very inspiring, thank you for your contribution. I like how you interpret Bach's pieces also ;)

What a fun and inspiring video! Your journey of self-relfection, hard work and dedication is very compelling.

I'm not a jodan player, but wanted to say what a great video this is... congrats on your dedication and hard work (and for putting the first stages of your ongoing jodan journey on youtube for all of us to see). great job!

Wonderful video, I remembered how much I missed kendo thanks for sharing

love the tenacity of the training, just started practicing Jodan by myself, getting my head around the technique. Thanks for sharing this is inspiring!

Thank you, Peter. I come from Hong Kong. I started Jodan in 2019, same year with you. Same reason to start Jodan. I think the road to jodan is not easy and lonely. Thank you for your sharing. We are not alone

Very inspiring ! thank you for sharing !

Great video! Very inspirational. Can’t wait to get back to kendo myself.

Great video. Thank you for your honesty about your work

awesome work!

Love it. Just started being taught this by my sensei a week ago. Inspiring.

This was really inspiring to watch. I've only recently really transitioned into jodan and have been struggling a bit especially with keeping it consistent. The tidbits of info from your experience gave a bit of insight into what I ought to tweak in my training

Great video. Looking forward to see your progress! 🙇‍♂️

thanks for sharing Peter

I can relate to all of these issues. Although I took up Jodan gradually from sandan. I started with feet first. I figured once I got the hang of the feet in solo training I'd ramp things up from yondan. It's now been two and a half years since I got yondan and it's beginning to come together. Fair play mate. Nice video. Glad you conquered your injury.

It's very inspiring.

Very nice！ hope you will enjoy Kendo from now on too!

I recently picked up Gyaku nito. The reverse footwork and the weird cutting angles are super relatable to me. Thanks for sharing your journey :)

What a great video man. I had so much fun watching you and your Jodan style grow. Well done! I'm a Nito fighter,started 2 years ago. You've inspired me to try more Katate Kote at an angle,even if it doesn't make sense! 😀😉😆

Nice Vídeo ⚔️💥!! Thank you 🙇🏽👍

めっちゃ上手いです！ 自分も上段やってるのでとても参考になります‼️

Thanks for the vid! I've seen you on in some wechat moments and remember my time of kendo in shanghai (2008-2011). Hope we can keiko some time in the future. Say hello to Wu from me! Best regards from Germany. Jan (博洋)

As a martial arts practitioner I have been training from childhood to adulthood, i started with Taekwondo during my kindergarten years, i really fell in love with martial arts, then during elementary I joined Karate, I won first place in a competition once, i was rising the ranks in my elementary school as fast as Bruce lee kicking his opponents face, then when i go to middle school i continued my Karate journey and I also took taekwondo aswell at middle school, the only thing I did was martial arts at that point, i then finally achieved my black belt, i started training 3 martial arts during high school which is probably a signal that someone is addicted, i trained Karate, Taekwondo and Kendo, then i also learned Iaido, won some local competitions that nobody probably have heard of, then i got to college in Japan specifically Okinawa so I can deepen my understanding of martial arts, i fell to depression that time and loss my lifelong passion of martial arts, after graduating i was lost in what to do, then i decided to try martial arts again, i rediscovered my passion for martial arts, i cured my depressing state with martial arts, i won more local meh competitions but i was proud of my journey, now I currently am married, have children and is training in Karate, Taekwondo in Jiu jitsu, still a white belt in BJJ though, I have been Training martial arts for over a decade now and i don't regret it, although I'm not some famous influencer or some grandmaster, my passion will never end whether other people like it or not Anyways I have one piece of advice for you to improve your Kendo, focus on your Kendo, never leave it because i can guarantee once you never leave your passion you will be happy, you will not regret it, best wishes to you, your teachers and your family and good luck on your journey of martial arts (Currently using my account that my son for some reason uses to post stuff so don't mind me)

very impressed

отличное видео, проделана большая работа и как результат - хороший прогресс! поздравляю! для меня Вы тоже будете примером, но чуть позже, когда сдам на 3 дан через полтора года)

NICE!!!

Such a fearsome and humble pianist Kenshi! Great video!! Your experience of learning jodan is very inspiring for people who want to do jodan like me, thanks a lot! I have so many questions about how to start Jodan ( how to avoid injury mostly, already hurt my palm and triceps, in the beginning, practising jodan) and would love to learn more tips from you, please post more video!

I'm at a similar position, change to jodan after a aquiles injury, trying Sandan graduantion in a month 😁 and with the same struggles...

웅원합니다. 노력만큼 보답합니다.

とても綺麗でかっこいい上段です✨

Really nice and dedicated! Hope keiko with you soon!!!

good! I'm nito user. your training and wonderinig,I supposed to feel too.

Dude you were already at least at sandan level. the standards you put for your strikes is very high and i am amazed about how much you dedicated yourself in order to perfect these strikes. You will breeze through 4th and probably 5th dan as well, although i certainly know that these exams dont judge by technical ability at that point but on when you strike. however i feel you are ahead of yourself ... not the other way around. you can be proud

In my country, Jordan players are often taught to straighten their stance just before striking, like shots from Chudan. I’m not a Jordan player, but easily able to strike sharply when I did as they are told. On the other hand, when striking from neutral stance of Jordan which is slightly “open” (I couldn’t find an appropriate word…) the shots are always terrible.

노력이 아름답다...

Oh wow! You practice in shanghai!

小手めちゃくちゃ上手い！！

Agree the fumikomi felt extremely awkward at first

nice

いいね！！

If you have a chance you should try to practice with Osaka police. They love Jodan players :))) I love them too ❤️

Peter, your Kamae is beautiful. You could be samurai. Jodan has long distance to attack which is really effective, but only few people can do.

こんにちは 私は日本で上段をしている社会人です。 お互いに頑張っていきましょう。 それと一つ気になったのですが、両手で打つ技などは入れてみてはどうでしょう? 上段から相手の竹刀を中心として下から左回しで相手の面を打つというものです。言葉で説明は難しいですが伝わってもらえたら幸いです。

真希望以后毕业回国能跟皮特前辈打一场（同上段）

What type of shinai do you use? I’ve done all my time with a short tsuka type of shinai, but you seem using a type of shinai with a very large tsuka, si could you tell me what kind of shinai do you use? Or how do you made that kind of large tsuka?

About the shinais, u feel any diference using jodan with Dobari, semi or chokuto?

How do you object to the object you are training to hit with the shinai?

Why type of shinai u use 4 jodan?

I think you can try YAKU DO (逆胴 ). one of my friend who is in the same dojo with me. He uses JODAN ,too. And his YAKU DO bothers me very much.

Tis shinai is 39?

Jodan Stance is Very different from Chudan Stance. Chudan Stance is studied alot more, but the Jodan isnt. So i recommend trying to incorporate the basic fundamentals of Chudan that you wouldn’t normally see in Jodan. For example: Using Hikiwaza or Counter attacks “I forgot what it is in japanese” I want you to be more Creative and do things that arent seen before in kendo, You have an opportunity because Jodan isnt studied that much. i want to see you also using Nitoryu because your single hand attacks are impressive with reach and speed. accuracy is something you can get better with practice though :)

小手を投げ捨ててはダメ

Hahaha 2000 years later 😂

I always loose to jodan hahahaha

I like that there are perfectionists out there in the world like me in kendo. As a 20 year practitioner of kendo don’t use the floor to rebound the shinai after a missed jodan katate waza. Use the uchikomi dai to work on uchima and grip strength for katate waza.

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i thought both hands should be on the Shinai

Hello Peter, do you have an e-mail I could reach you at?