Details are yet to be confirmed by the renmei but I believe the following is substantially correct: Jukendo August 4-6 2018 Tankendo August 7-9 2018 15,000 yen covers meals and accomodation 20 students maximum by invite only 5-10 high grade sensei each day Yokosuka, Kanagawa A Grading will be held at the end of the... Continue Reading →
1st Unofficial Completely Unrecognised World Championship: Ukraine vs Poland [Match 2]
Commentary by Jacek Lipiński I think a good place to start would be to say that it was my first match with actual referees ever - and it sure shows. Once or twice I had some humble shiai geiko in the past, but a full set of referees was something new. I actually felt very... Continue Reading →
1st Unofficial Completely Unrecognised World Championship: Germany vs Portugal [Match 1]
Commentary by Nuno Almeida As the internet saying goes…”this escalated quickly!”. After a day and a morning of trying to grasp the very basics of Jukendo – under the watchful and patient eyes of Terada Sensei – it was decided that Berlin would be the host of the very first completely unofficial and totally unrecognized Jukendo... Continue Reading →
Training basics: Drills
Note that many exercises do not have formal names and so different sensei may call exercises different things. These are what we call them. We always start (and end) class with Chokutotsu san bon of course 01:57 but there are a bunch of other exercises to do which keep things interesting. For all of the basic... Continue Reading →
What a ride! A journey in jukendo.
What a ride it had been! I cannot really look at those initial videos. Just the same, I can’t browse through the photos from the first Polish Jukendo seminar . Those clumsy moves, those basic mistakes, and the absolute lack of any clue what I’m doing on my face. Not that I don’t do stupid... Continue Reading →