Katas

Kata Seminar | Kendo Ontario | Sept. 26, 2014 from Mark Kawabe on Vimeo.

Kendo Ontario's kata seminar was run by Raymond Sensei, with demonstrations provided by Asa Sensei and Lee Sensei and additional advice from Tsumura Sensei. This is the first seminar I have seen that explains how shidachi prompts uchidachi to attack. These "triggers" have been explained in other sources (Paul Budden's "Looking at a Far Mountain" could perhaps be the first time they were explained in English), but it is the first time I have heard them explained in a seminar or class in Canada.