Hi Everyone
This one is for young and old. I am sure Sensei will discuss this on saturday
The 2021 Victorian Kendo Championships will be held on 14-15 August at Victoria University, Footscray Campus.
To support VKR planning for this event, the VKR requests that each club complete the following Expression of Interest Survey by 17 May 2021: https://forms.gle/uWyXxt126CeUtUYy5
Kind regards,
Michael Dunn
President
Victorian Kendo Renmei
Koryu that are not like Kendo at all
In the previous post I listed the various branches of Itto Ryu and asked you to consider the similarities between their use of the sword and Kendo. Sometimes when one becomes used to a certain way of doing things, one can fall into the trap of thinking that is the only, or maybe the best, way of doing things. In learning iai kata of Tatsumi Ryu, we are trying to break out of that thinking by exposing ourselves to a system devised long before even the Itto Ryu was founded. This means that there are some fundamental differences in how the sword is used. In these posts I am mostly interested in the differences in how to swing the sword. In Kendo, and indeed in most of the styles of iaido practiced today, the fundamental cutting action is a straight up-and-down action often referred to as kirioroshi , cutting through or cutting down. In Tatsumi Ryu, the characteristic action where the sword first goes through a circular backswing before cutting downwards is called kowauchi , or 'power...
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