Learn The Sword with Shihan Dana Abbott

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The Street Smart Samurai and the Summer Gasshuku

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My first summer Gasshuku was in Chiba, a city just outside Tokyo, and was become one of the most  enlightening experiences I ...

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The Street Smart Samurai and the Dog Days of Kendo Summer

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When the "dog days" of summer begin in Japan, you will sweat profusely. You start losing vast amounts of water from training ...

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The Street Smart Samurai Pushing the Limits of Kendo

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Training Kendo in the traditional setting provided a much different brutality for the men. Hazing was definitely included as ...

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The Street Smart Samurai Faces Kendo Fighting Tradition

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I was very happy and relieved to have avoided the experience of hazing that freshmen students typically encounter in the Kend...

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The Street Smart Samurai On Kendo and the Smell of Good Manners

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When kendo practice ceased the undergraduates would then go to the locker room which was below in the basement. Going down th...

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