Furukawa sensei - kote men

[DONEKASE77]

KOTE MEN???HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA KOTE MEAN IN MALAY IS DICK OR PENIS BITCH!

[Gaasm]

@DONEKASE77 Hum, this comment is really useless...

[Hoopermazing]

I wonder if this guy is related to my old judo teacher, Louie Furukawa.

[Gaasm]

@Hoopermazing I don't think so, there are planty of Furukawa...

[hupsi23]

whats that? he almost always turns around the wrong way. thats something you usually learn at the beginning. Well, might be that they they did it like this some 20 or 30 year ago (no I dont think so).

[AlanMolstad]

@hupsi23 he turns to the camera...

[zbvm]

the slo-mo in the end of the video is very enlightening. thx!

[jamjax]

Love those legs. Thanks for posting.

[thynhardz07]

lelaki konek!! the kote men!! awesome!! wat malu mak bapak ko je kote men,

[shotokanshdn]

It depends on the teacher.. Not all Hachidan hanshi agree with one another, Furukawa sensei is Nanadan Kyoshi, and he is a great instructor. He's just teaching the way he wants to teach HIS kendo. Everyone's kendo is different. Just like Arima Sensei (hachidan hanshi) likes teaching heri kote men. So it just depends on the teacher and they waqy they want to teach.

[ob1kendobe]

His kikentaihchi is perfect, in real time. Kikentaichi is supposed to done in real time, not in slowmotion(with someone pauseing a video) Another thing, while we strive to make teh stirk hit the same time as teh sword, its allmost impossible to make them hit at the "exact" same time.

While when pausing the video, it shows they hit a differnt times, the reality is, the time inbetween is so miniscule, that it is irrelevant.

[themarl]

I'd second this opinion. You don't need to have the stamp and the cut be precisely simultaneous.

At the end of the day, it's ki-ken-TAI no ichi (body), not ki-ken-ASHI no ichi (foot). If the foot and sword aren't quite hitting at exactly the same time - that's alright, as long as it's clear that the entire body is involved in the cutting process.

[Ladakh]

Thank you so much for all these videos... i'm a novice in kendo, and it helps me a lot ^^

[AsanMaeng]

He has good control, in my opinion. Looks like he's gotten alittle old for intensive matches though. Still would beat me though :)

[OHMURAM]

He has such a beatiful foot work!!

[donald628]

all of his movements are beautiful, but if you look closely (especially on the slow motion footage) his shinai makes contact before his feet contacts the ground on both of these strikes. I don't understand why that would be. He must simply be so good that it doesn't matter any more; however, in japanese matches they might now count such strikes that are made with this mismatch of timing between shinai and feet.

[cesarekim]

A lot of competitive players do this, btw. Hasekawa sensei was one of the few teachers who would teach to fumikomi and then strike.