The Benefits of Kirikaeshi
It was quite a relief to pass the AUSKF Kendo Shinsa (promotional examination) and receive my rank of ikkyu. In Detroit I had only gone through the portion of the exam that tested appearance, etiquette, jikeiko (combat practice), and kata. The Sensei's gave us our final task, a short written exam, to take home and complete. The question was just one simple inquiry:
Explain the benefits of Kirikaeshi.
I will have to turn in my response to Mark at practice tomorrow. I found the book Kendo: the definitive guide by Hiroshi Ozawa a great resource in writing my answer.
In the past, I had assisted in adding to and editing articles for the open source, free internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Since there was no article on the term kirikaeshi, I decided to contribute my written examination as an article. It's far from perfect and there's so much more I can write on the subject but I'm too tired right now and have lots of reading to catch up on for school.
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Wikipedia article: kirikaeshi
1 Comments:
Thanks! I need to do the same thing for my Kendo test this year.
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