Swords really aren't my area of "expertise" ... but links are! Hope you find these helpful! (you didn't specify what type of ma so I just sent you a bunch..... http://12.224.234.149/WeaponsKata.htm http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~shimano/doujo/kendolab/kendolab.html http://www.budogu.com/mpeg/iai-kata.mpg http://www.ne.jp/asahi/aaa/tagi2/kata/kata.htm kendo kata. Very small. Ram files need realplayer, http://tagi2.cool.ne.jp/kyoto50/kata.htm more kata with realplayer Kendo http://www2.jyose.pref.okayama.jp/cec/taiiku/16_kendo/01_menuti/idx1218120506.htm Men uchi. http://www2.jyose.pref.okayama.jp/cec/taiiku/16_kendo/05_douti/idx1218121315.htm Do uchi. http://www2.jyose.pref.okayama.jp/cec/taiiku/16_kendo/06_doutinooziwaza/idx1218122315.htm Do ojiwaza. http://www2.jyose.pref.okayama.jp/cec/taiiku/16_kendo/02_menutinooziwaza/idx1218120708.htm Men ojiwaza. http://www2.jyose.pref.okayama.jp/cec/taiiku/16_kendo/04_koteutinooziwaza/idx1218121115.htm Kote ojiwaza. http://www2.jyose.pref.okayama.jp/cec/taiiku/16_kendo/03_koteuti/idx1218120905.htm Kote. http://www2.jyose.pref.okayama.jp/cec/taiiku/16_kendo/07_haraimen/idx1218130604.htm Harai men. http://www2.jyose.pref.okayama.jp/cec/taiiku/16_kendo/08_haraikote/idx1218150918.htm Harai kote. http://www.lmc-portal.net/fujiwara/kb.html Sword making... eh I threw this one in... pretty interesting!
What's the problem Cougar? Maybe we can get you to love them Looks like you have a problem accessing thi links or something... |Cain|
Maybe he cant find any kendo nearby *shruggs* I did the same thing about 2 1/2 years ago. But be aware of the other sword arts out there. As soon as I can I will post some links to western SA sites.
first try this www.swordforum.com it have a lot of very knowledgable people there who can point you in the right direction on a variety of different styles of swordsmanship and then there is www.aemma.org this site has few books stored on it and then you can alway enter western swordsmanship into a search engine and wade through the infor mation
Oh yeah I didn't think about that...My kendo club is 2 1/2 hours away in a car. Yeah alot of them, I found Iado pretty interesting myself. I'm sure you have already heard of it but Musashi's 5 rings is a good book if you are learning swordsmanship or any art. I will post some sites with sword forms on here if I can find them.
my group is about 15 min on bike from where i live iaido sounds nifty but since I use a longsword you cant really transfer iaido to german longsword here is place to try it has a few period manuals online www.aemma.org and this because it might be useful http://www.the-aes.org/about.html and this place some good info http://www.thehaca.com/