Detailed online kendo guide and instruction

This site provides beginners and intermediate kendo practitioners, especially adults and later starters, with systematic step by step instructions.

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My name is Hiro Imafuji. I have a lot of passion to learn kendo and to help people learn kendo.

I create and share educational contents, my more than 39 years of experience and knowledge of kendo locally, nationally and internationally.

If you are new here, check out my articles such as the kendo basics. If you have no time, bookmark this page an come back for more contents.

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Hiro Imafuji

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Kendo Guide for The Intermediate (1 dan, 2 dan and 3 dan examinees)

Kendo Guide for The Intermediate is designed for 2 kyu and 1 kyu to pass 1 dan, 2 dan 3 dan exam as well as improving their kendo
Kendo Guide for Complete Beginners Web Course

Kendo Guide for Complete Beginners Web Course will give you specific goals and detailed explanations on kendo basics.
Kendo Basics: Beginners Guideline

This page is introducing all the basic movements of kendo for kendo beginners. If you are thinking to start kendo or just started, start from here.
Kendo Footwork: suri-ashi, okuri-ashi, tsugi-ashi, ayumi-ashi, hiraki-ashi

Kendo footwork is actually more important than striking in kendo. It is said that we should do kendo 80% with our lower body (footwork) and 20% with our hands (sword).
Kendo Wisdom

Kendo is derived from one of the ancient Japanese martial arts, so we have wisdom and old teachings in kendo. In this site, I would like to introduce kendo wisdom that we can use in our daily life.

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Kendo Bushido Training

Nov 06, 19 06:08 PM
Hello. My friend, Hiro. We have spoken before. I really have a few big questions and really require your help please. 🙏🏼 First is ok if we can have a conversation

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Response to Podcast 016 - "Kendo, Death, and Hope"

Nov 06, 19 05:32 PM
After listening to Episode 016 “Kendo, Death, and Hope”, I couldn’t help but think that this is continuing the conversation that was begun in my post “Response

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Understanding of Seme

Oct 24, 19 08:56 AM
Understanding seme is one of the key elements of passing kendo 3-dan. Start understanding what seme is at your level for your 4-dan exam.

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About Hiro

Kendo is fun! Kendo is enjoyable! Adults beginners and late starters of kendo have hard time to understand that. If you are one of them, I want to help you with learning kendo and share the enjoyment and joy of kendo!

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