No Excuses - Irish National kendo Team 2009 (Jan -June)

These are some of the highlights of the Irish National Kendo Team from Jan 2009 to June 2009 as they prepare for the World Kendo Championships in Brazil in August 2009.

Irish Team

Brendan Hickey
Gerard Bridgeman
Andy Ward
Martin Kiosew
Danny Lennon
Jason Clouston
Robin Deegan (Taisho)

Clare Deegan
Kathryn Cassidy

Music "Until the end of the world" is copyright U2, the famous Irish Rock band, and Universal Music Group.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Irish Athletes
• Irish Team.

[tokyocityrat]

Irish samurai.

[CorkBudokai]

@tokyocityrat we try our best :)

[takumikun999]

Excellent video and editted well.

I just have one question, why is your kirigaeshi swing so small. My sensei has taught us to always have big swing otherwise there is no meaning. Kendo was born from real katana where a swing must be big to cut. Please elaborate.

[CorkBudokai]

Thank you for the kind comments. Your sensei is correct, your swing must be big and straight.

Mostly kirikaeshi is slow to execute correct technique other times (maybe for a higher level when you have a solid grounding in basics) it can become smaller and faster and this is only to practice speed, stamina and correct breathing, this should only be done complimentary to solid slow and large kirikaeshi and only when you have a good understanding of basic kihon.

[CorkBudokai]

That said, in the video we are after about 6 hours of kendo and we were doing a few hundred kirikaeshi (after 1000's of cuts) and we were all extremely tired. This exercise was not about learning or performing kirikaeshi correctly, it was about building up mental perserverance and fortitude. In our minds we were doing correct kihon.

However despite all I've said above, we do still have many areas to improve within our kirikaeshi and our kihon.

Thanks again for the comments.

[CorkBudokai]

ya dont give up :)

All of us started in Ireland, as fara s I know not many had been to Japan first, but many have since been.

Ireland did really well, but we received no silverware :)

[kendostudent]

A great video! It's awesome seeing kendo from around the world.

Keep up the great job!

[TaishaJason]

nice vid! I'm curious how many developed their love of kendo in Ireland or if they had been to Japan first...

How did things fare for the team in Brazil?

[papadoc711]

lol after one of them scored the point they just kept hittin him that fuckin class...

[GettaRoboG]

Let's go Ireland!!!!