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Bokuto Ni Yoru Kendo Kihon-waza Keiko-ho is a new form of bokken training that is directly translatable to bogu kendo. Bokuto Ni Yoru Kendo Kihon-waza Keiko-ho also facilitates learning the Nihon Kendo Kata, and because of this was adopted by the All Japan Kendo Federation for use in primary and secondary school.
Kendo training at an agricultural school in Japan around 1920. Kendo (剣道:けんどう, kendō), meaning the "way of the sword", is based on Japanese sword-fighting. [citation needed] It is an evolution of the art of kenjutsu, and its exercises and practice are descended from several particular schools of swordsmanship.
The Jō is featured in several Japanese martial arts. For more information see the Jōdō article. A Jō made of red oak, approx 128 cm long. The All Japan Kendo Federation specifies that the Jō should be 128 cm (50 in) in length, with a diameter of 2.4 cm (0.94 in) and be made from red or white oak. [4]
Kendo in the early Meiji period (1873) Takasugi Shinsaku, late Edo period kendo practitioner. Swordsmen in Japan established schools of kenjutsu [4] (the ancestor of kendo). These continued for centuries and form the basis of kendo practice today. [5] Formal kendo exercises known as kata were developed several centuries ago as kenjutsu practice ...
In 2003, the All Japan Kendo Federation (AJKF) introduced a set of basic exercises using a bokutō called Bokutō Ni Yoru Kendō Kihon-waza Keiko-hō. This form of practice is intended primarily for kendo practitioners up to Nidan ranking, but can be beneficial for all kendo students. [6] Suburitō (素振り刀) are bokken designed for use in ...
Three more kata were added in 1981 and two more in 2000, increasing the number of seitei iaido kata to the current twelve. These kata are officially known as the "All Japan Kendo Federation Iai" (全日本剣道連盟居合, Zen Nippon Kendō Renmei Iai), or Zen Ken Ren Iai (全剣連居合) and commonly referred to as seitei or seitei-gata. [1]
In 1886 the Japanese Police gathered together kata from a variety of kenjutsu schools into a standardised set for training purposes. [7]: 11 This process of standardization of martial training continued when, in 1895, a body for martial arts in Japan, the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, was established.
Kata originally were teaching and training methods by which successful combat techniques were preserved and passed on. Practicing kata allowed a company of persons to engage in a struggle using a systematic approach, rather by practicing in a repetitive manner the learner develops the ability to execute those techniques and movements in a natural, reflex-like manner.