It seemed like neither of the chudan practitioners understood how the jodan player’s use of katategote was bullying them out of a good six inches of measure. They were always in the bad part of the measure donut, always threatened and never meaningfully threatening. The jodan player was using their adjusting footwork as his trigger, as you noted in the case where the rear foot was being brought up.
Excellent format very useful and instructive comments. Wondering if you could have a similar session with the video trending now of Nishimura’s sensei 6th Dan exam.
Hello Andy, great Video!! Really liked your real time thoughts! Ita was very clarifying. I think this format is great for us who is still way back to learn even more in our kendo path!!! Love it!
Similar and yet so different to sabre. I have done a bit of kendo but once I focus on fencing you can really see that the art of defence never formally came to Asia with the right of way for deciding who wins be awarding the one who has priority like defending then attacking or attacking first and the enemy fails to defend and procedes to hit you get the point which might not kill your opponent but your safe in kendo it's all about 1 hit kills changing the game. Kendo enters cops de corpse a lot which I always found pretty interesting but makes sense cause of a katana it is much closer and is very slow in comparison to sabre fencing but makes sense cause it's a shinai. When I look at kendo it's like bro you both hit each other then members oh yeah quality is what kendo is going for and remembers how hard it is to get an ippon or the weird feeling a 2 handed blade is with the added control xD. Must give serious props to these kendoka harder than it looks.
I'm exchanger in Japan and a guy started at the same time practicing. Last week we had our first matches (we're still kinda bad, but our teacher wants us to get the experience). And this dude just did the Jodan, without even knowing that it exists. Everyone was like: what the heck is he doing and where did he learned it?! (he didn't get the point, but still)
Love the commentary vid. Didn't have hearing problems like some other commenter did. Higher level stuff (seme application) than is current for my level but interesting nonetheless!
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Love this kind of video analysis and discussion! It would be great to see more videos in this style!
As an aspiring Jodan player, I found this helpful.
Would really like to see more of this type of video. Seems super informative.
Yes please! Shiais would also be cool, but grading commentary is the most helpful imo. Great video Andy.
It seemed like neither of the chudan practitioners understood how the jodan player’s use of katategote was bullying them out of a good six inches of measure. They were always in the bad part of the measure donut, always threatened and never meaningfully threatening. The jodan player was using their adjusting footwork as his trigger, as you noted in the case where the rear foot was being brought up.
Loved this, as much for what it shows about Chudan as Jodan. Thank you
Excellent analysis.
Love this Andy. You are a gem
Excellent format very useful and instructive comments. Wondering if you could have a similar session with the video trending now of Nishimura’s sensei 6th Dan exam.
Hello Andy, great Video!! Really liked your real time thoughts! Ita was very clarifying. I think this format is great for us who is still way back to learn even more in our kendo path!!! Love it!
Thank you Andy sensei. Always great videos :)
Great video. Very helpful. More like it plz
love this format ! :)
This is fantastic! Learnt so much... It'll be great for routine training too!
great analysis !
Yeah... more video analysis. Especially on gradings.
That was great!
Similar and yet so different to sabre. I have done a bit of kendo but once I focus on fencing you can really see that the art of defence never formally came to Asia with the right of way for deciding who wins be awarding the one who has priority like defending then attacking or attacking first and the enemy fails to defend and procedes to hit you get the point which might not kill your opponent but your safe in kendo it's all about 1 hit kills changing the game.
Kendo enters cops de corpse a lot which I always found pretty interesting but makes sense cause of a katana it is much closer and is very slow in comparison to sabre fencing but makes sense cause it's a shinai. When I look at kendo it's like bro you both hit each other then members oh yeah quality is what kendo is going for and remembers how hard it is to get an ippon or the weird feeling a 2 handed blade is with the added control xD.
Must give serious props to these kendoka harder than it looks.
Yes, I like that!!! If you have time do some more. Please.
I'm exchanger in Japan and a guy started at the same time practicing. Last week we had our first matches (we're still kinda bad, but our teacher wants us to get the experience). And this dude just did the Jodan, without even knowing that it exists. Everyone was like: what the heck is he doing and where did he learned it?! (he didn't get the point, but still)
Andy please do Nishimura next !
Love the commentary vid. Didn't have hearing problems like some other commenter did. Higher level stuff (seme application) than is current for my level but interesting nonetheless!
Maybe a helpful tip, you can scrub through youtube videos one frame at a time using the '' keys with the video paused.
Noted!
Useful
👍👍!!
Jodan player seems to finish with one hand only on the shinai, is this normal/intentional?
Gives a bit more reach, which in this video is critical to some of his strikes.
Turn off the sound in the video. When it's in slowmo it's hard to hear what you are saying.
Good Seme and tame, reasonable to have passed in any dan exam
Man, I really hate when people move the head to avoid the strike, when this happens I hit harder and faster.
boring comments........