Kendo is sportified Japanese sword bamboo swords (shinai) and protective armour (bōgu). Samurai uses real sharpened swords. In the following videos, you can see how they are related and yet different. Scrub to 1 minute 26 second to see the
Medieval Battle
The following clips are from a full contact sport that is hosted yearly – Battle of Nations. Actual fight starts 3m26s. http://youtu.be/u3jV93rNils?t=3m25s Exercise Share your observations, did you learn anything? What is the first video showing that you cannot see
Stick fights
We use stick for gymnastics. Stick can be used as tools for conditioning – grip, reflex, speed, hardening of forearm and much more. In the Phillipines, stick fighting is their art – Arnis and Kali. Fight Quest is a TV
Nostalgia – Wing Tsun long staff
Just by chance, at a social gathering, a friend asked if I heard of Master Deng Yick (鄧奕) who was regarded as the king of long staff. What a small world! Master Deng was my uncle’s sifu and that is
Training aids
If we are playing Family Feud, the most popular answers for martial arts are probably punching bags, gloves, weights, chin-up bar, tensor bands, ankle weights, etc. There are a whole list of non-conventional training aids for us: – ball –
Some old pictures
Some photos of me from way back in the 1970s practicing LHBF forms. If it was done now, these probably would have been videos: On the top right is a rare picture of me performing for a fundraiser at UBC.