Step Up and Strike! Kendo Basics | #Kendo

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n this kendo video, I'll be sharing an approach to creating more opportunities for striking techniques during practices and matches. I'll provide a general overview of my technique, which focuses on identifying and exploiting openings in your opponent's defense. By implementing these strategies, you'll be better equipped to win matches and take your kendo skills to the next level. If you're interested in improving your kendo game, be sure to watch this video and subscribe to my channel for more expert tips and techniques!
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[Kendotips]

What is your plan of attack when approaching your opponent?

[agentapathy]

Advancing with your right while keeping your left leg "cocked" has done wonders during jigeiko. It made me hit "faster" in a sense that I was able to strike at the moment my opponent is about to react. I'm still ikkyu and there are terms that are still beyond me, but this approach helped me understand instead of over-analyzing my opponent.

[sdquinlan]

My way of explaining it:

Seme = pressuring/telling
Tame = assessing/listening

Seme you pressure/tell the opponent "I'm going to hit you!"
Tame you asses/listen for their response to your seme. Then you commit based on that.

Three general types of response from the oppnoent: (1) Freeze/confused, i.e. they respond with "huh?", (2) block/defend, i.e., they respond with "Yikes!", and (3) they initiate an attack, i.e., they respond with "Not if I go first!"

My approach is a combination of stepping forward slightly and manipulating their kensen. Depending on how they (begin to) move their kensen, I can assess what target will open and strike. If they attack instead of fixing their kamae, I'll often go for men. Or if they are fast do strike as an oji waza. Or I get hit. :)

[SirConto]

I really liked this description from the book "Kendo, inherited wisdom and personal reflections":

"The whole spectrum of attacking opportunities in kendo is summed up in the Sansappo (or Sansatsuho), which translates as “the three methods”. These are:
Ken wo korosu – kill the sword
Waza wo korosu – kill the technique
Ki wo korosu – kill the spirit

While these terms sound suitably esoteric, if you rearrange the order and group the techniques that represent these categories, you get a basic, common-sense list of which waza work in which circumstances.

Ki wo korosu – equals seme. Using your whole body and, more importantly, your mental strength (kizeme), you push firmly into your opponent’s space and destroy his mental composure, creating the opportunity to strike.

Ken wo korosu – you break his kamae by moving his shinai with your own. Ways to do this include harai, osae, uchiotoshi and maki waza. Effectively, you sweep, push, knock down or twist his shinai away from his centre, leaving the door open for your attack.

Waza wo korosu – this covers the whole range of oji waza. You make him attack and take the opportunity to destroy his technique and beat him with your own. To do this you can select from a menu of debana, suriage, kaeshi and nuki techniques. Which you use depends on how advanced his attack is before you strike. Debana waza is used when he starts his attack, suriage waza when his shinai is on its way down, and kaeshi and nuki techniques when his cut is almost there.

Using the sansappo to order techniques in this way helps me to put them into a framework, but there are a number of other useful ways to understand the theory of timing and opportunity. The concept of Sen, Sen no Sen and Go no Sen is equally effective. This relates to striking before your opponent does, as he starts to strike and finally after he starts his attack.

Another way to think about it is by putting yourself in your opponent’s place. In this case, the Shikai or four sicknesses of surprise, fear, doubt and confusion (kyo, ku, gi, waku) can be exploited as attacking opportunities.

With kendo’s long history, successive generations of teachers have given us the basis to understand how and why we do things. The challenge for most of us, though, is not to understand the theory but to put it into practice. In this case the answer is “more keiko”."

[Kendo_is_fun]

interesting video. can I hear your understanding of tame?