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Originally Posted by kitski
awesome coolnard..thanks for helping me to understand kendo.so if a person masters both kenjutsu and a kendo then he/she becomes the ultimate sword master--that's cool..
video was cool..thanks again for showing us this  |
Sorry, but he seriously gave you wrong information. This is what hapens when untrained people attempt to talk about stuff they don't even know about or understand.
What you said is most incorrect. Nobody ever becomes a "master" of either art. Only a fool thinks they can. Kenjutsu and kendo are not alike in the least. Not only that, both take a lifetime to learn and even the highest ranked person has things they have to fix and correct. Nobody will master a swordart because of this. Learning is a never ending circle. Most people dedicate themselves to one art because becoming proficient in more than one is very difficult. It takes time and effort to learn a Japanese sword art(JSA). Most quit after the first 3-6 months because they are so hard and tedious to learn. What you see in Anime is not what a real JSA looks like in the least. Real Koryu(old school-anything created before 1868.) JSA is very repetitive and slow and boring, to be honest.
They only do kata and at the highest levels after years of training, they will do paired kata using fukuru(leather covered) shinai. It's not sparring at all, though it looks like it is. They also never wear bogu. If a kenjutsu dojo wears bogu, it's not a legit dojo.
Kendo on the other hand, does do sparring and they do wear bogu. It takes 3-6 months in a legitimate AUSKF dojo to earn the right to wear bogu. This is because you have to learn proper footwork and have good solid basics so you won't hurt anyone. We don't just beat on each other, and clubbing is not allowed. We lose 90 percent of beginners after their first few practices because they realise they won't be Kenshin or Kill Bill and find out that kendo is very hard work and is not flashy. You'd be practicing Men(strike to head) for a couple months at least before being allowed to do anything else, for example. And, you'd be working on footwork and trying to learn to properly strike Men using good tenouchi(proper manner of stopping the shinai. Hard to explain online. Hence, you can't learn a JSA online, hehehe.) for as long as you do kendo. That's just a couple things.
So, it's not what you think. Nobody is a master and nobody will ever be a swordmaster. They just do not exist.
A person just has to join a legitimate dojo if they want to learn, and work very hard to even become reasonably decent at it over time.
Kaoru3