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This is very cool for you to learn kendo in a different perspective. 

This is quite new to me so I am so excited to learn this mechanism as well. 

Keep it mind that you should not do this with physical strength. That is the whole point of the specially made light shinai. You learn 

• the form
• the feelings and 
• the mechanism

Happy to Help People Who Wants to Do Kendō But…

Many want to learn kendo. I am so glad and so happy to hear that. I would like to do anything I can help those who want to learn kendō.

But they want to learn kendo so they can create their own style or just to add something to what they call a “combat or fighting system”.

They can do whatever they want to do on their own time but there is one thing that we all should know.

No One Should Intentionally Change Kendo.

Kendō has its own history and culture. And during the course of its history, it certainly changes its form and nature.

Kendo was a part of kenjutsu training. But as we all know it is not a part of kenjutsu training anymore. But that is how it started.

Then going through all kinds of incidences such as Meiji Restoration and World War II over the last 300 years or so, it turned itself into kendō we now know.

So, yes, kendo did change. And I can tell you that kendo in 2015 and kendo in the 80s are different. If you do not practice kendo you probably cannot tell the differences but I can tell you that they are different.But history that kendo has will not change.

Kendō Has a Long History

If you go to a traditional dōjō, you can see a shrine there. It is to keep the dōjō sacred. It is to keep the dōjō and practitioners safe. And most of all, it is for the practitioners to train fair and square sincerely under the martial god. And funny enough, kendō has influenced by Zen Buddhism.

There is nothing surprising if you know about Japan. Shintoism and Buddhism are two major religions and they have been around for a long long time. Of course, kendō was influenced by those two religions. Also it has influence from Confucianism.

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