Kendo 〜the perfect ippon〜 

The reason I stopped. Those cuts and open feet are no fun at all.

@@mistylandschaft_streams it eventually stops happening, and you can prevent it with correct feet treatment. My feet are 'spread feet' and I am extra suspectible to it... I can feel my soles getting sore after a few weeks training bare feet, and I then use a tabi sock with a leather sole until it gets better. This helped me prevent open feet for some years now.

I'm fairly certain it is supposed to be strikes. I might be wrong however

strikes, the terminology for these are "men/kote/do-uchi"

They can be both

I think: Men and Kote are strikes. Dou is cut.

According to a 7th dan sensei who once visited the dojo I go to, it's a mixture of both, depending on the attack. Men is a striking action but has a cutting component to it as you're supposed to move forwards after you strike. The combination of striking and slicing allows the sword to cut deeper than it would by striking or slicing alone. Do is almost purely slicing : the initial strike wouldn't cut deeply on bare flesh and wouldn't even get past clothing. With a slice, however, it's another story. Tsuki begins with a strike but is usually followed up by a drawing cut when recovering the sword. The only pure striking attack is kote : by the time your body is moving your sword would have already gone straight through the opponent's wrist/forearm.

Calling out the target as you strike is actually surprisingly spontaneous. Kendokas call out targets anytime they strike in practice and it becomes something they instinctively do as part of the motion of striking the target. For foreigners it is also generally fine to go with the generic "YAAARRRRRGH" when you strike. (Source: did kendo for 10 years)

Prolly human mind can’t react to such audio info in 0.2 seconds, so it doesn’t matter anyway.

You don’t necessarily plan the shouts. Eventually they will come out naturally as you strike, so it would not suggest preplanning and attackz

You don't necessarily call out the target(never do it before striking but rather at the moment of striking) but you must produce a kiai (shout) as part of the requirements to score an Ippon (ki ken tai no ichi= spirit (kiai) sword, body, one). The suburi (swing) of your shinai in kendo for men(head), kote (wrist)and do (mid section sides) all start the same way, it's around the lower shoulder where kote and do becomes different(kote following a straight line, where do you slightly rotate to make sure you land your shinai at the appropriate angle). So really you don't know what target they are hitting until the instant it happens. Tsuki (throat) (seen as a more advanced technique because of the dangers) is more of lunge forward. But yes, you are correct, like the end of the episode, you want to act or react on instinct rather than think. If you think, you are going to get hit. But this can only be developed through training and experience. "If you can do 100, do a 1000 and if you can do 1000, do 10,000" is a mindset for suburi because the more you do, the more it becomes instinctual.

No. That is not the reason for doing it, and that is perfectly fine.

Most people don't get that kendo isn't going to teach you how to use a katana. If you want to learn to use a katana you want to practice kenjitsu ( the art of the sword). Kendo ( the way of the sword) is a budo and was created to help refine it's practioners as a person through training (builds confidence and self esteem). But unlike it's fellow budos of Judo and aikido, it's doesn't really translate as a way of self-defense. Maybe if you found a broom handle but even then it would be hard fetched to call it a way of self-defense.

why are you mindfucking me

@@cagevick Victoria is AI at its worst... Bad bot, bad.

Considering you use 2.25 mins each match you will use 2250 mins each day which indicates 37.5 hours. You can’t possibly do that many without sleep, eat, and rest. If you do that everyday just say you are very good and it takes 1 mins for you the defeat your opponent, you use 16 hours on kendo without rest which will damage your body instantly unless you are hulk...

@@yeeeessssssssss check out what is said at 15:18. It does sound like the kenshi typically performs only 100 suburi a day. He elevated his practice to 1000 a day to prepare for the tournament. That’s my take on it.

@@yeeeessssssssss At 15:18 he's not talking about matches, he's talking about suburi - so practice strikes. And 100 of those per day really isn't a lot. I went and checked, that's like 3 minutes of practice. I timed myself: 2 min 54 seconds - and I wasn't rushing it either. Even those 1000 - still not all that much - doable in about 30 minutes, maybe a bit longer if he paces himself.

@@yeeeessssssssss no you are just an idiot. Ever heard of kettlebell training? Well there used to be long marathons for it. And people do it often in training. So no you don't need to be hulk to lift a stick 1000 times.

@@hunnerat-touaregi4439 ye i think i thought it was 1000 keikos not suburis lol