George McCall owner of the highly popular Kendo and Japanese sword art related site, Kenshi247.net, has just released his new book titled, Kendo Coaching Tips and Drills. I've been reading through a digital copy and I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on the paper

Breif post on some waza! I practiced at IBM again last Saturday, Yamada san took us through a great kihon and waza practice. All waza performed from tip to tip! Attacking men 3 types: Seme using the kensen Step in on the right

As an Interac ALT October is the worst month of the year. Interac pays you one month in arrears, meaning that you get paid for the work you do in August, at the end of September. So I get my lovely summer holiday pay

Some things I have recently eaten! Pint of Heineken there bud  Some fancy Suntory Hibiki Whiskey Turkey leg! Sendai Tanabata 2012 Korean Yakiniku, you can clearly see the garlic. Gasuto Hamburg restaurant. Hamburg steak and Fried Chicken. 600 yen.  Thai place near my station. Red

Today I took the long journey down to Kawasaki to practice Kendo at Sugao Elementary School, Yanai Sensei was not there today, but I still learned alot! Kubota Sensei did ALOT of kihon practice today, there was almost no jigeiko at the end!

So the new school term has begun and with that I'm back to a more regular keiko schedule! I'll be doing my best to make it to 5-6 practices a week depending on work and private lessons. For now I'm practicing at Micho

On Friday I practiced at Hikawa Budojo in Asakasa Tokyo, defiantly one of the more challenging places ive been to practice, with almost triple the amount of Sensei to students..... Keiko started at 6 with 1 hour of Ito-Ryu Kiriotoshi practice. An absolute SAVAGE of an exercise....