Category: shiai

Published on 29 April

All Japan Prefectural Championships 2018 第66回全日本都道府県対抗剣道優勝大会

By George , In kendo, shiai

This year, as usual, the Osaka prefectural gym was the venue for the All Japan Prefectural Championships (mens). What was different from last year is that I am now in possession of a seven month old daughter, which meant I was only able to watch a couple of hours of the competition before heading back to nappy-changing duties! In that couple of hours I took a handful of snaps, some of which I will share with kenshi 24/7 readers today. This shiai, basically the All Japan Championships for teams, has a unique format, which I have introduced here on kenshi …

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Published on 22 March

University Invitational Shiai 大学招待試合

By George , In media, shiai

Today’s mini-post is another media one with pics from a couple of University Invitational Shiai that my students and I attended over the last couple of weeks. March is always a busy month shiai-wise (we still have one more next week and another was cancelled) but, as I’ve mentioned before, these university invitationals are my favourite type of shiai because we (usually – it depends on the shiai running time) manage 30-40 mins of godo-geiko once the competition is done. Unfortunately, both of the shiai this month ran over, which meant a “relaxed” 40 mins became a super frantic 25 …

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Published on 11 February

University invitational shiai 大学招待試合

By George , In kendo, media, shiai

When my alarm went off at 6am this morning (Sunday) I dragged my body out of bed, had a large cup of coffee, grabbed my stuff, then headed over to Kyoto to take part in this years Kyoto University high school invitational competition. By “take part” I of course mean “take my students over to compete.”

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Published on 05 February

High school shiai (university invitational) 大学招待試合

By George , In kendo, media, shiai

Today I spent the whole day at yet another university invitational shiai for high school students (it’s that time of year!). I got up at 6am and was greeted with a cold and rainy Osaka morning. Jamming a banana in my mouth, I bought a coffee at the nearby convenience store and headed over to Kyoto. As usual, the day went as follows: – warmup – opening ceremony and morning shiai (preliminary rounds) – lunch break and another warmup – knock-out rounds – godogeiko with university students and graduates Of the different type of shiai I attend, I much prefer …

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Published on 25 December

Merry Xmas! メリークリスマス

By George , In media, shiai, updates

Mini-update Back in May I announced that I was having a re-think about what to do with kenshi 24/7 and then in September I posted a notice saying that I was semi-retiring posting content… at least for the “time being.” I tried to start a more casual blog on the side, but things in life (work!) are moving at warp-speed at the moment and my energy soon exhausted itself. Perhaps, if I can get myself organised properly, I’ll try to make another attempt at either a re-boot of the main site or some other side project next year. Still, despite …

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