Kendo in High Speed Camera(Slow Motion) 

No one is faster than the guy with the flags.

Man, that hit at 0:50 is just a masterpiece. The way he pushes the opponent's sword out of the way and then uses the same momentum to swing from the other side is magnificent to look at.

Crowd: *Claps* Me: 🤔 *Slow motion plays* Me: 😲 👏👏

THose referee's eyes are made with 16x camera or what??? How could they saw the red guy hit it first. Damn!!!

To those who commented that the winner would also be injured/killed in a real sword fight: 1. Kendo is a sport. Based on real sword fights, but still a sport. You have to simplify and apply artificial rules to make a sport work. Shooting is a sport, and you don't see the audience complain that your enemy/game doesn't stay still like a shooting target in real life. 2. Defensive and evasive techniques are very important parts in Kendo. They might not be exactly the same like what happens in real sword fights, they are almost as close as it gets. 3. One of important reasons it's almost impossible to simulate a real sword fight with Kendo, is that if a valid Kendo strike happens in a real fight, it would inevitably break or at least interfere with your opponent's momentum. If you want to deliver a valid strike and stay uninjured, you need to anticipate how your strike could break/change your enemy's attack and then evade accordingly. That's almost impossible to simulate in a sport as nobody gets truly injured (hopefully) in a game. 4. If any of you fuckers gets into a real sword fight with a Kendo master, my money is not on you.

Makes you wonder how crazy fast Musashi must have been to have won all of those duels with real weapons.

10 years after that it got confirmed that Sony used the eyes from the refree to make slow-motion cameras.

I'm Japanese.And I used to practice kendo.Kendo is not learning how to kill but learning what Bushidou is.So it's not important which one is more fast.A samurai in the Edo Era was taught right attitude and manners by practicing kendo.The purpose of kendo is fostering samurai's humanity.Sorry for my poor English.

What the fuck is this sport ... This is so speedy, so nervous, and so calm. This is one of the best sport i ever saw :o

When I see many comments mention that "if this is the real fighting...", I'm exhausted and realized some people are still confusing what Ken-do is made for. Ken(sword) Do(path) is the practice of concentration through the invisible communication using by swords, and it helps for your mental self-growth. Not the practice to prepare for the real fight, entirely NOT. Same as Fencing, it keeps its fairness with point match. Sorry if you were looking for the Oriental one like Kurosawa movies, you need to understand this is the "Real". But if you challenge Kendo or other Japanese martial art, you'll see its fun, i swear.

Looking at this, the ease at which Palpatine killed those 3 jedis sounds much more legit...

If you've practised kendo in your life, you know the beauty of this video.

That was a beautiful deflection and counter strike at 0:50.

これを見分ける審判達も凄い

This is how side charecters anime feels like you can't see the movements of the Mc because its too fast

Really cool video. The High Speed shots are great when it comes to seeing the precise moment when the hit was made. In real time, if offten looks like "mumbo-jumbo-ponit!-what the hell just happened?"

The announcer is so into it, you can tell he’s invested. It’s great.

star wars brought me here

With differences so minute like that I can't even begin to imagine how anyone can judge that. That is just truly amazing.

The referees be like: “ *SHARINGAN!* “

such a splendid sport omg

選手はもちろん、審判の方々の動体視力はスゴいですね。

Slow motion is great, you get all the details you couldn't see otherwise. And I'm actually quite shocked and awed. For I have learned that that's fast enough to fool my eyes. Of all the times I had to guess on who hit first, I could only get 1 right

I've never seen a shinai bend like that if not for the slowmo camera. A very good fight, both are very fast and decisive.

For people who aren't Kendoka and are questioning about why some hits are being counted and some aren't, and the whole "this would never work in a real sword fight because both people would be dead from many many hits I offer this comment that will probably better explain whats happening. Every time the practitioners go back to center with the tips of the swords crossing it's like the fight restarted. From here, the object is to strike either the head,torso, wrists or throat with a unification correct posture,good cutting technique, correct footwork and alertness after the attack in case of counter. The judges will only count the best strikes, and of course even though weaker strikes might kill the other person like I said it's treated like every time the practitioners go back to center the fight basicly restarts and it goes on a best of 3pts system. In this way competition is SUPPOSED to be used be used as a polishing of technique under pressure(Some people are overly competitive and lose this though with blocking and overemphasis on winning ) instead of who hits first like in fencing. In higher ranking 8th dan competitions, the match is closer to a real sword fight as both practitioners will most likely be able to get a point when they strike so they spend most of the time trying to obtain an opening before ever actually striking in order to obtain a strike that can't be countered by their opponent and will be sure to win.But still goes by 3pt match usually and the whole restart thing is still present if they don't get a pt. There is a lot less blocking(common now) and random strikes as you see here.

I used to fence many years ago (epee) and I remember fencing a Swedish junior champion. Every so often we'd stand and just size each other up, waiting for one of us to do something. This bastard (and I'm just saying it with all the respect 'cause he was a great dude and he used to beat my ass all the time) would just wait for me to blink and when I did, it was all over. By the time I opened my eyes, he had pretty much closed the distance and it was all over with. Depressing but very cool to fence against people like that. Probably the dude I enjoying fencing against the most :) I MISS the old days :) Now, I'm not trying to take anything away from the Kendo guys. Just thought I'd throw that in there...

When studying Kendo, you're supposed to treat each strike as a killing blow. You don't tap on the head, you aim to cut through to about eye level. You're right about simultaneous hits though.

THESE GUYS ARE INCREDIBLE

I've done fencing for years (mainly sabre and epee) and I have done kendo for about 3 years now and I completely agree with ya on that. That actually is exactly how I thought when I first started fencing where we both hit just one hit quicker. However I thought long and hard about how sword sports could have the realism of a real duel, and I don't think it is possible. People know they don't risk dying and so they go for the fastest hit. So sadly, sword sports will always be Sports.

WTF?! How did those judges unanimously get the last hit correct? They must be superhuman to discern that 0.009-second difference...

Talk about timing and dedication. Respect.

Fantastic to watch these two competitors at the top of their game

Huge respect for the referees to figure this out in real-time.

Great fighters and Great referees.

Such an awesome compilation ~ !

watching multiple screens at the same time, finally we are in back to the future

As a HEMAist I never have any idea what's going on but always thoroughly enjoy it anyway. Also everyone else here calling their sport the one true sword fighting can we just get along? Every single one takes skill, respect that.

First fight are like: Miyamoto mushashi vs Sasaki Kojiro

Bruh these uniforms are just scary and dope in the same time. I really respect Kendo !

Let's meet after another 12 years when youtube recommends this one.

確かに実践ではこのような戦いにはならない。しかし真剣を持った場合、剣道をやっている人には攻め方を考えられる。そしてお互いに棒を持った場合には剣道をやっている人間には絶対に素人は勝てない。何故か？剣道をやっていれば分かるのだが、相手の棒の軌道が全て見えるからだ。

Final round : *Anime music starts playing

kendo is simply beautiful...Japan must be happy to share all the martial arts with the rest of the world.

Thanks for the reply!

Great video. Thank you.

0:44 OH MY GOD

Admirable

Wonderfull !!! So speed and sharp.

I've practiced arnis my whole life and I like to exchange techniques with a kendo practitioner. Seems like I could learn a lot things from them.

When i hear him talk he sounds similar to Zoro from One Piece XD Santoryu!

Beautifully executed.!

Teramoto had the skills to win but I see his height made a huge impact on this victory. Superior skill and reaction displayed on both sides

Why isn't this on T.V. instead of all the crappy sports everyone else likes...

03:00 am now.. and i can't sleep

Amazing!

Their speed is so incredible.

The conclusion is: the referees have 16x speed eyes :D

speed level god detected.😂😂👍👍👍👍

Kendo teaches us not to fear (or at least tries). These kenshi are fighting without fear - their goal is to commit to the attack. When Takanabe falters in his attack - i.e. he tries to defend Teramoto's men strike - he loses the point. Their technique is beautiful to watch - and the amount of processing that happens at that speed is simply impressive. In "real life" perhaps both men would be dead - but that means one less opponent on the battlefield, and they've served their purpose.

Indeed, he also used his two sword style (Forced too i should say) when he was attacked as a young teenager by around 7 bandits. It is written by a local witness that after he slain two with his single sword, he drew the second and used it sort of as a shield as the account writes, then striking hard with his katana held in his right hand. the yoshika battle came after to which indeed true to form when fighting multiple enemies (around 25 this time) he used two swords again. amazing man.

Kendo guy - uses intimidate * "YOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYYYEEEEEE" It was super effective Me - * unable to battle

I love the Bruce Lee sounds

That Nito player is awesome, really wish to see more videos of him.

Magnificent

Makes you glad you weren't born in the sword era. Even if you kill your opponent, you're likely to die yourself or sustain lifelong injuries.

だから、オリンピックの競技にしたくない

Kendo is really fun and meaningful, it is unfortunate for those who doesn't get a chance to be involved to understand ~"~..

im a fan of sports like this.

how the hell the referee saw that?

Hmm.. Should have thrown the pummel.

Okay, I learned something today. That is very cool, Thank you.

very nice footage!!! I hope my son would love to play "kendo "as I loved to fence

0:51 this is me when my girlfriend tells me that was all because of something I did

Hello, I'd like to ask people who do Kendo, Japapenese if possible. What do you achieve in real life when you do Kendo? It probably helps you stay fit like any other sports but other than that ? For example I do boxing because I like to hit and being hit, it reminds me that I'm not made of glass, also it improves my eye-hand coordination and reflexes. I'm seriously asking this because it looks like a cool sport that I would like to try but its gears and classes are expensive so I'd like to hear some opinions. I also wonder if age matters

Wow. I know the kendo sword bend and flex but seeing it in slow motion is cool

For the answer to your question, I have in the past. I stopped going after a year because I felt I wasn't learning anything beyond how to tourney spar. The most I got out of it was physical fitness. It's fine to use overwhelming attack as a strategy in kendo tournaments, as kendo doesn't really train you to do much more than that.

剣道やってればなんとなくわかると思う

High Speddo camero xD

thank a lot.happy to you i wish.

@A3neas The Men (the helmet), Do (the breastplate), Kote (the gauntlets) and Tare (the armored skirting) are the basic components of the Kendo Bogu (the armor). In Kendo, it's part of your form to call your targets when you strike them, to show the judges that it wasn't just a fluke that you hit what you hit.

So what's funny is it's not just who hits first like you would think. You actually have to scream, stomp your foot, and strike with "emotion" all at the same time. I've asked many Japanese to explain how to score in kendo and none can easily, they just say its the "emotion". And where I live everyone does kendo lol

and i thought im fast

0:45 was an incredible exchange. Parry and counter faster than I could see

kendo is a martial arts played like a sports. period!

Go to 4:20 on the timeline and you'll hear *Yoshi*

This is what happened in real life Lol Forget about those samurai duels you see on TV. A real fight will probably ends in under 1 minute.

thanks for the help

Amazing 🙌

Wouldn't a sufficient helmet make vertical blows ineffective in real life combat?

両方死ぬ？フェンシングだって同じだろ。 Both are dead? fencing is also the same.

This literally pushes the limits of human ability. Many commenters don't understand how difficult this is - it's in par with what Usain Bolt may have achieved by shaving milliseconds off his time.

Really is a beautiful thing to watch. I would dearly love to learn this but alas, the nearest school is about 2 hours away. Because even though I live 30 minutes from the capital city in my state, and it is listed as a major growth corridor there is next to 0 fraking martial arts schools in my area. I slays me when I think about it.

Why doesn't Kendo attack the legs? Many commenters have stated this question as if the fact that Kendo does not attack the legs means that is is only a sport and not a martial art. In real martial systems no parts of the body would be off limits. The fact is that most sword fighting systems around the world do not attack the legs. A good explanation of why this is in in the video Sword & Shield Fighting with Roland Warzecha at min 27.40. Mr. Warzecha practices a HEMA style but the principles stated about reach are universal.

There's a problem with ALL of these tournaments, whether kendo, foil, epee or any other sword type. The participants simply don't have enough fear of being hit. What matters in these matches is to hit the other guy an instant or more before he hits you - but that's not realistic. You don't want to get hit AT ALL, not even a glancing blow or a cut on an arm, hand or leg. Maybe a tournament would be more 'realistic' if hits were only counted if the hit was unchallengeable (the other man's hit is rendered moot because he would have already lost the ability to perform the hit) or if one man made a clean hit on another without getting touched by the other after the hit. You could limit the length of the match by awarding the win to the man who got the first clean or unchallengeable hit - a one point match.

Teramoto's final men is like from an anime where he knows he can't just win by going in head first so he does a strategy

Amzing bout between two 7th dan kenshi. I look up to them.

I don't understand the concept of this... even tho one gets a hit in first, the other one is already swinging and hits right after. my point being if these were real sword they would both die..one doesn't simply fall and die as soon as he gets struck... plz enlighten me some1 to the concept of this?

This is a sport lmao talking bout some "if this was real sword fighting". It's not. They have wooden sticks and are using equipment. That's almost like watching a hockey fight and saying "if this was a real fight..."

pretty dern impressive!

That's a brilliant idea O_O