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Welcome to Kendo Online Workshop

In kendo online workshop, we are looking at some points many people are doing wrong or not explained in detail.

Some of them are very small things but very important aspects of kendo such as which knee you should put down first when you sit in seiza.

These are not something we can ignore and keep learning kendo without knowing.

In this kendo online workshop, I try to show you these details by articles, videos and/or pictures.

Hope you learn something out of this.

Hiro Imafuji

www.Kendo-Guide.Com

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How to Strike Small Kote

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- In this section, you will learn how to sit in seiza in order. Also youwill learn why we sit in seiza in that order. This is helpful to teachbeginners too.


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