This is Kendo

risingsunproductions.net presents This Is Kendo featuring an American Kendo enthusiast George Alexander. A personal frined of Gordon Warner Alexander did train in Japan.

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Sports

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• Kendo
• Alexander
• Japan

[neogtrmn]

First 28 seconds is nothing but crap. Everything after that is legit stuff.

[averit]

This is SPARTAAA!

[aawadh]

@averit looooooooooooooool

[ihaterobbie123]

@TomoeCooper Don't worry, you didn't really offend me I just don't like the ego of the budo community in general.

I actually read up on him 1 hour ago and after seeing a glimpse of his life I'm sorry to hear he's dead. It's probably thanks to him that westerners including me can do kendo.

The capital letters were because I had no idea who he was and yet the uploader has mentioned him, I can't feel anger at someone I know nothing about so rest assured I wasn't insulting him, please don't be hurt.

[TomoeCooper]

@ihaterobbie123 Sorry you felt lectured. For 1. Ok. Point taken. 2. I didn't mean to offend you. I was perhaps hurt by your capital letters towards my father, Dr. Gordon Warner. I just came home from the US yesterday after burying my father at Arlington National Cemetery. My father wasn't a saint but he dearly loved Kendo and gave his life to it. Kendo is possible today because of people like my father who brought it back into Japan after WWII. My apologies again for offending you.

[ihaterobbie123]

@TomoeCooper Nice, you begin by pointing out a typo, then lecture me on etiquette, the hypocricy is staggering.

1. Just because I've done kendo doesn't mean I read about it, I really don't give a damn who ANYONE is because unless I've met them they may as well not exist.

2. I've been doing budo for about 9 years now and I'm sick to my neck of the snobs who think that just because they do martial arts there's something more expected of them and they are that little bit better than a human.

[TomoeCooper]

@ihaterobbie123 In response to your question, Dr. Gordon Warner (spelling it correctly) wrote the first English book on Kendo called "This is Kendo." If you have ever done Kendo, you would know. Dr. Warner was the first ever foreigner who received the Shodan degree in Kendo in 1937 at Noma Dojo (you can google to find out the history of Kodansha).

I would expect more from a kendoka or anyone who does budo on etiquette when writing comments, regardless of the legitimacy of the video.

[ihaterobbie123]

donrw: "THIS IS KENDO!"

me: "NO IT'S NOT!"

George Alexander may have trained in Japan, but if he sat on his fat ass during that time it doesn't have much bearing.

How can you be a "kendo enthusiast"? You either do kendo or you don't and this fuckwit doesn't yet has the nerve to insult any legitimate kendoka by claiming he does.

And who the FUCK is Gordan Warner????

[hiperboobo]

first part: freakin' joke hahaha

[guidemomotaro]

are you sure,you call this kendo?

[zh001d]

Totally.  The kids can probably beat the living crap of the first 2 guys.