French Team in this vid: Guillaume Sicard - now 6th dan Jean-Nicolas Heurtevin - now 7th dan Fabian Salson - now 7th dan Francois Blachon - now 6th dan Thibault Brunel de Bonneville - now 7th dan
Stunning and beautiful video - an educational and inspiring one as well. Teaching the Japanese way of perseverance, courage, tenacity, honor and hard work. Japan is awesome !!! Love Japanese Kendo.
The true student of the sword practices daily until there is no enemy and no weapon. The correct stroke and counter-stroke occurs without thought. Everything becomes one, and the kenshi reacts correctly to any situation.
15:15 His son Masaki is pursuing his father's career as well, currently at the renowned kendo club at Tsukuba University. Also with him in the team and university is currently Chikamoto Taro, son of Chikamoto Takumi from Aichi - former All Japan Champion too. The son of former taisho of Japanese team, Seike Koichi from Osaka, is currently at Chuo University. Coincidently all are the same age. We can expect them three to join their respective police force and follow their father's paths. The next generation will be beast
@@Dente18 Some other fun facts: Chikamoto Taro just recently qualified for the upcoming All Japan Championship, funnily enough Matsuzaki (last edition's runner up), Hoshiko (team world champion), Shiratori (national team member), Moriyama and Ohira (both prefectural champions) also qualified, all of them are in the same class and university (Tsukuba 4th year students), sadly though, Eiga Masaki tried to qualify in his home prefecture Hokkaido but was not successfull. Next time..
@@user-ir7os6wh1w Thank you very much for the updates. I'm glad Matsuzaki qualified again, I liked his style in the last taikai. Do you know about Kunitomo Rentaro and Miyamoto Keita? I hope they qualified as well. It's a shame Eiga Masaki couldn't do it now, but surely he will have many opportunities through his life. I've been training Kendo very diligently for the last 7 years and because of the pandemic we aren't able to practice for the last entire year. It saddens me a lot and last week I started to practice again inside home, even without enough room to do suburi. These news about these kenshi help me to get motivated. 日本人だったら、ありがとうございました。
@@Dente18 Kunitomo and Miyamoto did not qualify - as all other police officers didn't. This year there will be no police officers taking part for the first time ever, because the police stations here are still in lockdown and not allowed to practice. This year is basically only teachers, students and company workers
@@user-ir7os6wh1w What a shame we wont see the police officers in the next taikai. Well, I'm sure its gonna be awesome anyway. Japan is plenty of strong daigakusei.
Interesting. Looked like Kim was trying to lull Eiga with a slower pace and acting like he was not taking Eiga seriously. Maybe relaxed a little too much?
