Photograph By Gillian Reade
This weekend saw the biggest ever gathering of kendoka ever in Ireland 100 kendoka coming from clubs from Ireland, UK, Belgium, France, Poland, USA and Italy.
The weekend began for almost everyone with a 7 hour seminar with Yanai Sensei 7th Dan on Friday morning. We began by going back to basics and learning how to correctly cut men (from 4th Kyu to 5th Dan). Its crazy how many aspects you forget as you “progress” in kendo. We moved on to putting this together with fumikomi and worked it all into kihon and up to nidan waza.
