The fighting spirit of the samurai lives on through Kendo (the word meaning way of the sword), the Japanese martial art where spirit, sword and body sync up with every strike of the shinai (the bamboo training sword), and theire is a saying I've heard some time ago practicing Kendo: cries in the dojo, smiles on the battlefield.

I've started practicing Kendo late, when I was 23 years old, but I am still practicing it almost 23 years later. I haven't worked with Japaneze children (they start it when they are about 6 years old) when practicing Kendo but I could see the good results they are getting in time and I can easily recommend it for the children everywhere for several reasons like discipline, training, speed,, the respect they are learning while practicing and so on.

This article won't be long, I am just letting you know about just another video about the way of the sword (because this is translation of the word kendo), and old Japanese martial with origins in times when the full country was in middle of centuries old civil wars. The way people have been training has changed, the current kendo is only about a century old, but some things like the attitude toward another people and to how one ia training remained the same is it's much older (several centuries older).

Kendo practicing is improving your body about its speed, its endurance and its reaction and it's also improving your mind. Manners and etiquette are important in kendo practice.

How fast do react to a stimuli? How fast do you think humans react? Well... if you watch this video I think you might change your opinion...  Into a better opinion.

A short video with Masahiro Miyazaki. The living legend of kendo!

During 28 and 29 of november 2009 it took place the Kendo National Championship to the following categories and there were obtained the results:

Yesterday, 31^st of October 2009, it took place the second edition of Kanji Tsushima cup in Brașov. Mister Kanji Tsushima is the former ambassador of Japan in Romania and is considered the father of Romanian kendo. He has 6 Dan in kendo and he did started the practice of this martial art here started to teach kendo in 1990.