Resources for the Kendo practitioner

The topic of kendo is as vast as the world itself. There is so much material to cover, and too little time to go through it all! To help serious practitioners of this discipline, we have compiled a list of high quality websites to ease your research on this topic that one webpage can barely address.

Kendo specific

Geoff's Kendo blog - Yes, this is a link to a blog. It is written by a 7-dan instructor from the UK and has very useful information and tips for the advanced practitioner.

Hawaii Kendo Kenkyukai -An excellent resource for advanced kendo information including kata, philosophy, and advanced waza. Beginners will likely be confused by the content. Highly recommended for advanced practitioners.

Kendo World - A must know in the kendo world. This site provides excellent videos and articles that can be found in their download section.

Kenshi247.net - Another excellent kendo blog with high quality (and well written) information. The material is geared more towards intermediate and advanced practitioners.

General martial arts

Complete Martial Arts - CMA is a website that overviews many different arts such as hapkido, judo, aikido, and other arts that you may not have heard or seen much of like ba gua or jeet-kun-do. CMA offers a page dedicated to the history and formation of kendo as well.

Holistic Medicine Alternatives - Before you go off on "how is this related to martial arts?" I urge you to take a look at this site once! Remember, Japanese ki (氣)and Chinese qi (氣) have the same meaning and characters. Check out HMA and find the correlation.

Martial-Way - Martial-way.com offers an overview of pretty much every martial art you can think up including western martial arts like boxing and wrestling. They have excellent resources on each art including a section on kendo.

Betterbodycentral.com Diet Supplements and exercise equipment helps improve weight loss, sports, fitness, bodybuilding, martial arts, anti-aging, mood, sex, sleep, and general nutrition and health.

Sword Buyers Guide - SBG is an excellent research for those who are interested in purchasing real and/or live blades. They specialize in information regarding every type of sword from the Japanese katana, to the German long-blade. Highly recommended for sword enthusiasts!

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