Often when I am teaching or watching others teach kendo, I find that waza drills take considerably longer than the time allocated to them. This is because I and most other instructors like to break techniques down to their constituent parts and build up to the finished technique. I am sure that you know the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kendo instruction’
Back to basics
Posted in kendo basics, Kendo drills, tagged Kendo basics, kendo drills, Kendo instruction, kendo keiko, Kendo poll on March 25, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Kendo learning styles
Posted in Kendo instruction, tagged Kendo instruction, Kendo Learning, Teaching kendo on September 19, 2011 | 15 Comments »
I have been doing quite a lot of kendo reading lately and I really enjoy learning more about the cultural and historical aspects of kendo. I do however find it quite difficult to translate written descriptions of technique into physical movement. Even when reading instruction on techniques that I know well. Words on a page [...]
“Speak when you are spoken to!”
Posted in Reigi, tagged Chiba Sensei, kakarigeiko, Kendo instruction, Kendo reigi, Questions in kendo, Sumi sensei on June 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
On my occasional visits to one or other of the kendo message boards, I often see requests for advice or clarification, to which someone invariably posts the response – “ask your sensei”. This seems to me to be the most logical and accessible way to have questions answered, but obviously many people find it a [...]
Mixed ability training
Posted in Kendo Training, tagged Kendo instruction, Kendo Training, Motodachigeiko on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Following on from my post on mawarigeiko, I was asked for advice on the best way to train effectively when there is a wide range of experience levels in the same dojo. I still believe that the mawarigeiko method I described would be effective, but a good way to ensure that less experienced members get [...]
Chiba sensei does it again!
Posted in Chiba Sensei, Kendo instruction, tagged Chiba Sensei, Kendo instruction on July 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Chiba sensei is back in the UK and we just completed a two day seminar with him. This time he was accompanied by Hayashi Tatsuo, Kyoshi Hachidan who acts as official translator for the ZNKR, so he took on the onerous task of translating Chiba sensei’s teaching into English. Firstly I had some good news [...]
E-Kendo
Posted in Chiba Sensei, E-Kendo, Kendo instruction, tagged Chiba Sensei, E-Kendo, Kendo instruction on September 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I am really warming to the subject of kendo teaching, so thought I would give it one more burst. I noticed that a dojo in the Mid West is offering online kendo tuition. This may be a great idea, but it reminded me, and perhaps it will my older readers, of the advertising in the back [...]
Negative Positivism
Posted in Kendo instruction, Training in Japan, tagged Kendo instruction on March 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
When I trained in Japan in the seventies, instruction was by and large through criticism and repetition. To hear “ojouzu” (you are skillful) was the kiss of death. A truer translation is (yeah yeah you are great, go and bother someone else). In those days if sensei liked you and cared about you, they generally [...]
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