External – Videos

Here’s a compilation of videos and sites on:

• Tenouchi
• How to Strike Various Hits
• Jodan
• Kendo Video Channnels
• Matches
• Kata
• Equipment Care and Maintenance
• DVDs

Updates:  Oct. 20, 2021 – Added a new section for Equipment Care and Maintenance with how to replace the men-himo.

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On the Fundamentals

• A video by Itoh Tomoharu (8 dan), “Dreams Come True,”  第17回伊藤知治剣道教室ビデオメッセージ – YouTube, Feb. 4, 2022 (48:01 mins)

On tenouchi 手の内

• How to put into muscle memory the hit/strike for high level kendo people – Tenouchi practice from the kamae position, SKIjournal, (剣道上級者の打ち方を身につける方法 – 構え位置での手の内練習), 8:29 mins (in Japanese).
• How to Grip Your Shinai for Better Tenouchi in Kendo – by Paul Shin, 4:53 mins, Jul 26, 2015. 

On How to Strike Various Hits

• Datotsu (on a wide range of aspects)
  • Takumi Chikamoto sensei‘s datotsu Tips, Aichi-ken Tokuren Police Kendo, May 29, 2017, (超必見!!【近本巧先生による打突の心得】愛知県警剣道特練 番外編) (11:47mins). (in Japanese).
• Men-uchi
  • The men strike – slow motion, igucci446 (面打ち　スローモーション　high-speed 2010/5/29 六段 Kendo Men-uchi), 0:31 mins
  • You want to hit men? In order to win… by Fuku-Sensei, (FUKU先生, 面打ちたい？勝つために。。。Posted on “Kendo – Iaido – Munyukan 剣道 居合道 無入館”), 10:41 mins  (in Japanese). 
    • Also can be found at:  Basics of Kendo 1. ai-men 1 by moketo mokomoko (剣道の基本　1.合い面1),  4:56 mins (not sure which is the original)
• Others:
  • A set of very helpful videos with slow motion for learning ai-men, debana-kote, side-men (kiri-kaeshi-men) by moketo mokomoko (in Japanese).

On Jodan

• Youtube “Kendo Jodan Playlists” e.g. “kendo jodan”
• 藤原 崇郎 範士, 上段の構 Fujiwara Takao hanshi’s jodan no kamae instruction, p1, 20:02 mins  (in Japanese)

Kendo Videos Channels

• All Japan Kendo Federation (AJKF 全日本剣道連盟) Channel
• Kendo-World Channel
• For Learning
  • In Japanese
    • Hyakushu Kendo 百秀武道具店のウガ店長 – (Very helpful and entertaining!)
    • Kendo Innovation Laboratory – by Okada Morimasa (Kyoshi 8 dan)
    • Kendo Step Up Channel (Insightful)
• Shiai, Shinsa
  • Let’s Kendo 剣道総合サイト 
  • Bokushingu’s Kendo TV (covering kendo in California, USA)
• Keiko
  • Koyama kendo Channel – YouTube

Matches

• A brief, astounding clip of keiko between sensei‘s Hayashi (Hanshi 8th Dan) and Hamaguchi (Kyoshi 8th Dan).
  • Haruhide Chiba,”日本が誇る運動芸術 剣道 林邦夫範士八段(愛知)の妙技 「突・小手・胴 」」(1:49 mins),   Dec. 2014.

Kata

• AJKF Nihon Kendo Kata (38:11 mins) (See the YouTube comments to see the time position of each kata)
• Nippon Kendo Kata – English version (51:32 mins)  (See the YouTube comments to see the time position of each kata)

Equipment Care and Maintenance

• How to replace the men-himo:
  • 面紐のつけ方】OSUGirlsの剣道講座－大須賀 Part02 (2:52 mins) (in Japanese with subtitles in English)
  • Andy Fisher, “Kendo – How to attach the strings (Himo) to the Bogu,” (12:01 mins)
  • Key Points:
    • The men-himo leather piece is attached to the 4th metal grate from the bottom
    • The lower piece goes over the upper piece
    • The string end with the loop enters from the lower piece (on top) and then through the upper piece (on the bottom).

DVDs

• Koda Kunihide (Kyoshi 8 dan), “Kendo Promotion Shinsa – Program” (剣道昇段審査・対策プログラム【教士八段 香田郡秀監修】)

• Koda Kunihide (Kyoshi 8 dan), “Kendo Skill Revolution,” 剣道上達革命, TrendAqua DVD.
• 「剣道模擬審査 四･五段編」 DVD, スキージャナル株式会社 (Ski Journal, Japan), ISBN 978-4-7899-5535-5、2008 (Completely in Japanese with no subtitles).

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