Category: shiai

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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Published on 13 June

All Japan High School Championships (preliminaries) インターハイ予選会

By George , In kendo, shiai

A couple of posts ago I talked about renshu-jiai, or practise competition, what they are and what sort of benefits can be had from doing them. Since making that post I’ve spent three whole days (two Saturdays and one Sunday) at shiai with my students while they competed in the Osaka preliminaries of the All Japan high school kendo championships. This shiai takes three days because of the sheer amount of competitors: the first Saturday was the individual competition (boys and girls), then the following weekend was the boys and girls team competitions, each taking an entire day. Even though …

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