Some movies we may wish to see!

First one is an online film from Hungary (Barany-sensei is involved!):




This one looks to be Japanese (wonder if/when it will make its way to U.S. with subtitles):

I don't speak French but...

...this looks like a cool series of vids! Love the shaven-head sensei.

Team USA working out.

Oji waza: video geiko

Guys, this week we started to work on some of the advanced waza, in particular oji waza. The waza in this group include nuki waza, suriage waza and kaeshi waza. Last night, Sakuma-sensei worked with us on men-kaeshi men and men-suriage-men.

Here's a good resource to watch as we learn or practice these waza, a series of videos called Kendo Perfect Master hosted by a cool kenshi on YouTube. Do have a look. Here is one on men-suriage-men.

Demo at EMU JSA Dinner

Guys, someone at the JSA demo captured video. Looks pretty good! The stage was quite small and very shaky but you can't tell.



Part three (part one was history, rei, kata) is here - jigeiko with me and Mishina. Watch it so you can see how bad ass Mishina-san is, especially with the doh that made everybody clap!

Wer'e going to be doing a lot more demos and I think we will tighten the demo - rei, history, kata, waza, jigeiko. Great job by everyone and thanks for stepping up: Mike and Jonathan Helmstadter, Brian Betts, Stijn Van Osch and Mikuni Mishina!

RIP: Dr. Gordon Warner

Gordon Warner, co-author of This is Kendo, died March 5, 2010 at the age of 97.

An excellent write up of him here at Kenshi 24/7.