Kendo - 2007 Kyoto Taikai (Nitoryu Vs Nitoryu)

[legendaryhero123]

Why is kendo nothing like sword fights you see in movies/animes?

If they did things like you see in anime/movies then i would join in a heartbeat but to be honest when i went to an introductive session all the yelling and galloping just seemed a little obnoxious and embarassing...really let down. I wanna learn how to fight dammit not dance...

[rakaStraightedge]

@legendaryhero123 because kendo just use the basic strategy

[jung567]

i have a question, wat is sei nito? im a shodan learning nito so wat is sei nito?

[HalcyonKendo]

@jung567 sei-nito is daito in the right hand. gyaku-nito is daito in the left hand.

[msalazarx]

sei nito (or correct nito) shoto held with the left, daito held with the rigth hand. gyaku nito (or reverse nito) shoto held with rigth hand daito with left hand. in this video one is using sei nito and the other gyaku nito.

[quillaja]

@jung567 Sei-nitou (正二刀) is when you hold the daitou in your right hand. Gyaku-nitou (逆二刀) is when it's held in your left. This video was cool since it was sei vs gyaku.

[msalazarx]

They use katana ( daito ) and kodachi (shoto)

[grifis986]

sorry for the stupid question, i'm not an expert...

they use a katana and a wakizashi or 2 katana?

[diestroduende]

yes,  long and short sword.

[velebr3]

@grifis986 looks like katana and wakizashi

[breakermw]

@grifis986 They use a shinai (represents the katana) and a shoto (represents the wakizashi). A friend of mine is actually starting to learn Nitoryu so he's been giving me a lot of information about it.

[hiirowolfanima]

@grifis986 i think they use a katana and a wakizashi, in the vid one of the swords seem to be smaller

[antoniohdg]

@grifis986 a normal shinai & a nito shinai

[110STUDIOSHACHOU]

@grifis986 Nito is a katana & a kodachi(kodati is wakizasi)

[quillaja]

@grifis986 The long sword is a size 37 shinai, and the short sword is something like 60cm long from tip to tip (I forget the size, and google didn't produce results in the 10sec research I did, so it's a guess from memory).

[tetrasa1]

i wanna b a nitoryu, just because i wanna b different XD. iv just started kendo.. kendo is alot more difficult then t looks. but its soooo kool

[Streek000]

just seeing one nitoryu is rare enough but 2 against each other is just too rare... thanks for posting!

[phantom1412]

wat's more interesting is that it's gyaku nito vs. sei nito

[Koyama956]

for real !

[jung567]

so wats sei and gyaku nito? im a shodan trying to learn nito right now

[twobitmage]

wow this is the first time I saw this.

[jjcruiser]

Why didn't the kenshi on the right get a point for men after the guy on the left missed doh (at 0:21)

[eoltheelf]

It was a bit off, conditions were not met.

[tsurboy]

This was an 'enbu-taikai' where there is no points awarded. The audience has to make up their own mind.

[Kimsoderlund]

Thats awsome.. And that place is so beutiful, i was there last month and watched a kendo tournament, really beutiful place.

[Ptolemayos]

thanks zensa for this video!

i do nito ^^

[joonshik]

both types of nito, nice, non point scroing match, haha

[Jebak8]

just amazing...and each is hojding shinai in another hand...

[Alkayus]

talk about rare man, wow

[MrTvolaCZ]

sweet :-)

[southernkendoka]

That is the first time I've ever seen nito vs. nito. Pretty cool.