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George is a kendo and classical swordsmanship student who lives in Japan

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Competition

I've attended more shiai than most. In fact, unless you help teach at or run some sort of kids dojo here in Japan (and have done for years), or have been a school kendo teacher longer than me (not the kind of people who are likely to be reading kenshi 24/7), then 
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Transmission

Obviously I love kendo books. Only this past weekend I got another handful of books given to me by a particular sensei (a repeat book-giver... I think he is dumping all his old books on me!). A retired high school teacher whom I've only know for a couple of years, I 
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Eikenkai

Yesterday was the last Eikenkai session of the year. It was a deliberately small session held in one of my favourite dojo buildings (the actual dojo space is new and not so cool):  Keiko action:    
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Seme-ai

It's super embarrassing to talk about now, but years and years ago (when I was living in NYC in the mid-90s) I had a colleague round to my house. Failing to explain kendo well I tried to show him a video. The only thing I had was a VHS copy of 
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Hajime!

So, here we are. I am guessing that everyone reading this at the moment was already a kenshi 24/7 reader before. I've had quite a lot of comments on both the main site and on Facebook, as well as some personal messages about the notice I put on the main 
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