I have been looking for Kendo on youtube, I watch ( say skip forward) quite a few of them.
You can see on the right of the screen a whole bunch of related videos if you pull down the menu of Mix-Kendo Guide.
It is SOOOOOO
Boring!! The movement is SOOOOOOO
Stiff. It's like you have to do it exactly to do a straight chop down!!! This really remind me of those chinese kung fu that you have to have everything EXACTLY in the right position, not too wide, not to high, not too low, not too this and not too that...................
Call me ignorant, all the videos on one vertical chop down, they don't use the shoulder, waist to concentrate the force, just up.....down......up. I am not so sure I want to learn two hands strike from Japanese Kendo!!! Does it even produce enough power for blunt instrument like a cane? Maybe with a sharp sword, it might work well. But I prefer what I have been practicing.
I know I am new, only about 1/2 year of practice. But I have been into kick boxing type for years, I learned you use a lot of synergy to focus the force to one point like casting shown by Lamont Glass's video. That's how you generate a lot of force focus at the point you hit. I don't buy what I see in the Kendo videos.
I was very patient watching quite a few of the Kendo videos, I can't take it anymore. Unlike the
FMA Kali, I really learn from those videos and just straight translate to two hand swinging.
It just make so much more sense.
I truly never thought of it this way until today. Maybe I find my answer talking in this thread, I am just doing
Kali, but with two hands to use the heavy cane for extra power. I do learn a little from Irish stick fight holding with both hands close to the middle of the cane and hit with both ends of the cane like doing jab and reverse punch in punching for close distance.