/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20921522
You stepped on, or over someone's sword ? Because if you stepped on it, that's really, really bad. If you stepped over ... well that's still bad, I kinda made the same mistake and was given a small lecture, but I had only been training for a month by that point. What are the details anyways ? Did the dude just leave his shinai on the floor by the court ? Honestly, he should've gotten a warning as well if he left it on the floor instead of leaning it against the wall, leaving your equipment out of the way is something we take very seriously over here.

> mean, yeah they're still bad, but with exception of things like a neck strike or chest pokes those are usually for protection sake.
Far as I know, neck strikes are prohibited for the sake of safety, too. It seems like the flaps of the men weren't enough to protect against them and people were getting injured left and right. Chest strikes being prohibitted is honestly bullshit though. They did it beecause most people who fought in jodan were too stupid to learn how to cover their bloody chest, and it's not like there isn't a waza to help them here (Uchi-otoshi waza seems useful against a thrust if you're in jodan.).

>and its odd that someone almost got kicked out for that
Well, it wasn't the ONLY reason, really, but "not teaching proper kendo" was one of the major reasons why. The other reason stated was because the dude running the dojo jewed out hard and made a big franchise out of it where he's wring out absurd amounts of money out of the students. The federation here where I live makes a big point out of non-profit, most dojo are encouraged to at the very most accept fees for maintenance. There's also the fact that the founder of this big dojo was rather jealous that his brother made it to hachidan (He was the first person not born in Japan to pass the test in Japan, and only one so far, at least as of 2017), and he became an insufferable cunt after that.

>I've sparred with japanese students who came over temporarily (high school usually) and they always did the body shrugging type thing
That's odd, my experience with japanese youngsters is that they flinch and defend too much. You know what it looks like, where you raise both hands, with the sword above your head and the tsuru pointing to the ground. I heard this was eventually banned from highschool kendo, both for safety reasons (Very easy to do an accidental tsuki or hit the clavicle doing that) and because the fights would get too stale. My experience with pretty much all japanese over 20, however, and I'll be honest, my dojo only gets visited by geezers, is very different. They make a big deal out of treating the shinai like a sword, I shudder to think in what ways they'd lash out if they found any of us doing suicidal moves. In fact, I remember one of them spending like 50 minutes talking about the difference between sutemi and being stupid.
>>20921499
Too unwieldy. You only need a side weapon big enough to parry, or to stab if you get so close that your sword is useless. Ask Youmu and her two swords, one short and one long.

>>16313602
Uh, thanks I guess.