Kendo 〜the perfect ippon〜

Heir to Japan's ancient art of swordsmanship, the martial art of kendo is viewed by many as more than just a sport. While bouts are scored by points or ippon, very specific conditions must be met for a strike to count. Every element of mind and body should be seen to move as one. Practitioners give years of hard practice to hone their skills and develop the perfect ippon. We follow one Kendoka through a remarkable endurance training method, that involves fighting 100 bouts in quick succession.

[@Ramash440]

There's a sensei who I train with who insists that we do around 1000 Sayumen every Sunday. It's grueling on the arms. I've also once done a 10 minute long shiai with alternating opponents. I was dead by the end of it. I can't imagine what doing 1000 strikes every day then going on a multiple hour fight must feel like, with a police kendoka no less! Those guys have the reputation of being brutal. Mad respect for the kendoka in this video.

[@perialis2970]

14:22 ive experienced pretty bad foot problems when i did kendo but this stuff this stuff next level, the skin epidermis is peeling off to the meat holy glory jesus pray this man

[@user-bd2nc2ws8p]

Kendo is not just winning or losing. Here is the official "Kendo-no Rinen (Kendo philosophy)." It's a way or scenic training among at character-building through the practice of the Ken (sword) principle.

[@Model3GenerativeANdroid]

i just bought a kendo men headguard as something to be used for cosplay or a halloween costume and spending the last hour watching video of how to take care of dogu, learning about ancient art of dogu-making and this video. i'm so pumped up about kendo now that I'm thinking of joining a kendo dojo lol.

[@rigoren1277]

Wow what a warrior this guy is! Incredible show of perseverance. I was moved honestly.

[@RichardBejtlich]

I had not heard of Tachikiri-jiai until this video. It reminds me of the 100-man kumite in Kyokushin karate.

[@Heldar1989]

Wonderful film, thank you for sharing!

[@dreihochdrei]

Great video! 🙏🍀

[@insanitypepper1740]

The audience cheering thousands of strikes are probably exhausted too!

[@Cha4k]

Fist pump guy has become one of the most famous kendo figures thanks to youtube

[@allaris_the_one]

I just want to give a quick shout out to the Hungarian National team at 9:25. I had the honor to fight them.

[@Charles_One]

10:26 Rurouni Kenshin is one of the things that got me into kendo!

[@dreihochdrei]

Great! 🍀🙏👏

[@cringeyidiotterry]

Zanshin is just situational awareness Military personnel, Police Officers, and civilian survivalists are told to maintain, and nothing more complex nor mystical than that. Change my mind.

[@michaelspyrou1784]

bravo

[@mario_4027]

4:35 don’t forget about do

[@perialis2970]

11:25 ok im a kendoka and i wished i was trained by this guy like his training looks so funny and positive my zanshin would dissapear because i cant hold my laughter back if i fought a guy with a small beach ball on his helmet

[@kentv5131]

19:15 石田利也先生

[@lancealvarado4888]

❤

[@djaxupjazz]

14:20 the horror... so relatable.

[@mistylandschaft_streams]

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

[@djaxupjazz]

@@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.

[@SuperTitank]

> 10:41 the guy on the right is 200 % into it 😄

[@sturmtiger7704]

kendo is not only japan, but a swordmenship

[@mikeyates7931]

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

[@luiscamara524]

Kendo, Japón.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍

[@yeeeessssssssss]

2:45 the red side did get a successful tsucki hit

[@Randall_Lim]

Are Kendo attacks meant to be strikes or cuts? Uchi or Kiri? They sure look like strikes to me.

[@matthijscalje4143]

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

[@kentv5131]

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

[@yeeeessssssssss]

They can be both

[@VNSnake1999]

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

[@Ramash440]

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.

[@PauloHenrique-rt8fv]

🇧🇷👍 *!!!!!*

[@AlternityGM]

I like it. Would like to learn some kendo. But I don’t like the idea of calling out the intended because that suggests preplanned attack or counter. I think combat or sparring should be with clear mind & not plan out one’s techniques. It should move with emptiness not partiality

[@yancs5048]

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)

[@deadby15]

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

[@MushyFridge]

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

[@OneFoxTwoFox]

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.

[@Jhonny33993]

Can kendo be useful for self-defense?

[@MushyFridge]

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

[@OneFoxTwoFox]

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.

[@CorradoCameroni-tn9ju]

❤😊 Japan is o.k.😊❤ Namu Amida Butsu Namu...for a vegetarian world...❤😊

[@SingaporeanInKorea]

Only 100?? That's an average kendoka. I do 1000 everyday and I am not even one of the competitive ones

[@yeeeessssssssss]

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...

[@charlescowart5423]

@@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.

[@SirConto]

@@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.

[@hunnerat-touaregi4439]

@@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.

[@yeeeessssssssss]

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

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