About this blog:
This is not a place to learn ‘correct’ kendo. It’s a journal written by someone learning kendo.
I'm willing to try unusual things. I learn through exaggerating the extremes to understand where the middle really is.
I'm aware that I don't have the credentials to write anything about kendo. I don’t have any noteworthy taikai wins or awards. Sandan after 11+ years of continuous kendo 3-4x keiko a week isn’t a significant rank or achievement in the kendo world. My Facebook page is basically a meme page, so it’s hard to take anything I write or edit seriously.
I'm aware that I don't have the credentials to write anything about kendo. I don’t have any noteworthy taikai wins or awards. Sandan after 11+ years of continuous kendo 3-4x keiko a week isn’t a significant rank or achievement in the kendo world. My Facebook page is basically a meme page, so it’s hard to take anything I write or edit seriously.
You can assume that none of the content I post is here openly approved by a high ranking sensei, dojo, or high level competitor.
I think that ideas and techniques that work will work regardless of the authority backing it. That's why I post these things here. People can test things they see here if they've never seen it before.
If something I post here is wrong and ineffective, then hopefully I'll make your argument stronger by acting as a devil's advocate.
This isn't an instructional website, and what little audience I get here I don't think of as students. So, I can post experimental half baked things that people might not see anywhere else online. Most kendo blogs try to convey conventional kendo teaching primarily, so hopefully this blog is at least unique in its experimental approach.
I think that ideas and techniques that work will work regardless of the authority backing it. That's why I post these things here. People can test things they see here if they've never seen it before.
If something I post here is wrong and ineffective, then hopefully I'll make your argument stronger by acting as a devil's advocate.
This isn't an instructional website, and what little audience I get here I don't think of as students. So, I can post experimental half baked things that people might not see anywhere else online. Most kendo blogs try to convey conventional kendo teaching primarily, so hopefully this blog is at least unique in its experimental approach.