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Great to revisit your lessons from a few years ago. Thanks a million, Andy Sensei!

とても素晴らしい指導ビデオだと思います。Thank you for posting.

this has to be some of the most informative stuff I've seen about kendo yet... thank you !

Referred to see this video by one of your "Kendo Rants" videos. Glad I did. Appreciate your breakdown into 3 points with good and bad examples. Thank you.

I'm from the US and I I'm starting to learn kendo and I've never done it so I'm learning and the video has given me more what to do when I get my kendo gear.

Thank you Andy sensei !Keep up the good work!

oh yeah finally a new episode :) Love the show. Could you, at some point do an episode about kyu/Dan exams? and for the record: first

Thank you for the video; very helpful!

Great video. I think I was there for that lecture if it was last summer. I remember "kotekotekotekote!" It was a really helpful explanation of zanshin. I had forgotten some it and your video helped bring it all back. Thanks for​ making this!!

Thank you again Fischer Sensei.

Thanks very much for the video, it helped me a lot! last tournament I had a very hard time because my zanshin was too weak and even though my sensei told me that I lacked it I didn't know how to improve it. So thanks a lot!

excellent explanation, thumbs up!!!

I'm glad you made a video about Zanshin. Because my zanshin is awful, constantly yelled at by sensei. In my defense I was out of class for 4 months so I forgot all the terms and stances.

Great video!

Could you guys do a video on different kinds of oji waza? I'm interested specifically in kote suriage men and men kaeshi do.

great explanation!

Very helpful!

awesome video

This is really helpful since my dojo doesnt explain much about zanshin. But I've seen videos of people hitting do and then turn away from the opponent but still get an ippon. I often don't know what is required to get an ippon.

Nice!!!!

Very good video! I just want to point out the danger about whenever someone show "this is how to do kiai". Usually after such instruction everyone do that kind of kiai all the time for EVERY attack. Your kiai need to match how good the attacks are. The judges don't only judge your attacks but your confidence and control of the situation. If you always have the exact same kiai for every attack you'll come of as someone who doesn't know if the attacks are good or bad. You'll basically look like you lack control. And while I talk about the example of kiai. I don't know if it's intentional in the video or not, and this is really nit picky, but I don't see the short volume up just before the finish of the kiai as something necessary. I agree about everything up to that point, especially holding out a strong kiai. But if you end your kiai abruptly, let it fade off or have a short volume up before you cut it doesn't seem important to me as long as it's a definitive finish. As I said, this is really nit picky but I'm sure that many that watch this video will pick up that small thing as "this is the ONE way to do it" while maybe missing what's actually important about it.

good teacher

cool kendo lesson

Hiii!!! Thank you for this really helpful video, my Zanshin is horrible and I still need to learn. Thanks for it. :) (By the way, remember me? From Yoshinyuku?)

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You are very sincere Andy, only good intent emanates from you.

How set in stone are the specific stances after a strike? I mean is it for instance improper to recover in chudan or say, hasso no gamae after a men-strike? Of course in many cases you would want to draw your hands up and away, but would it count as proper zanshin to recover in chudan if it was possible and made sense?

Andy do you have any advice for sparring with a shodan or higher.

distressed puppy, lol I spit my coffee laughing.

I love this show! Can you make a video about seme and kiai?

dude that hurts :o

There seems to be a commercial for your previous employer at around the 6:34 mark in this video.

Could someone tell me how to determine which length of shinai is right for me?

Interesting...our Sensei (7th Dan) always tells us to follow through with our strikes, so to run through our opponent no matter what. If he stands in the way, run him over and if he can hit us on the back of our heads or when we turn around, then we are simply too slow. I think he would never recommend the move that you did when striking men (to turn the body and then move backwards)..at least he never told us to do that. Is this a kind of modern way to do zanshin?

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Great video!