Members Resources

Lots of good teaching / training video / written content available online now. Just one word of caution, there are many teaching methods (many paths to the top of the mountain), they may be different to what / how you're being taught in the dojo but you should always follow what your dojo leader / coaches are telling you. 

1. Tenugui  - Shudokan calligraphy

2. Club Armour Loan Form

3. Kendo - the perfect ippon. A longish video, from Japan, explaining what Kendo is all about. We  don't do tachikiri-jiai (the endurance training)!!

4. Beginners Course Syllabus The start point for all newcomers.

5. Beginners Quick Guide  A quick overview of what to expect in the dojo.

6. Parts of the Shinai and How to hold it.  

7. How to put on your kendogi and hakama

8. How to sit in seiza (video from Alex Bennett Sensei)

9. How to put on your bogu

10. Beginners Guide to Kendo by Terry Holt

11. How to fold your kendogi & hakama

12. How to put away your bogu for carrying

13. Reiho at the start and end of practice. 

14. Bokuto Ni Yoru Kendo Kihon Keiko Ho 1-9, demonstrated by Sumi Sensei

15. Kendo Basics, okuri ashi practice (footwork) from the Kendo Guide YouTube channel.

16. All Japan Women's Kendo 7th Dan Tournament Nippon Kendo Kata-Enbu (demonstration)

17. Seme, the lifeblood of Kendo by Gary O'Donnell Sensei, Nanadan

18. Andy Fisher Sensei has an excellent set of videos, full of tips and instruction  on The Kendo Show  "Zero to Shodan" is well worth a watch here.

19. Masahiro Imafuji (Hiro) also has an excellent website, The Kendo Guide  Again, lots of useful tips and instruction. Imafuji sensei regularly comes to the UK at the Kodokan Seminar.

20. The Kendo Guide is also on YouTube, great selection of teaching video. And all in English, bonus.

21. Sadly no longer with us, Geoff Salmon Sensei's family agreed to leave Sensei's blog online. A mine of  knowledge left for us, you can find it here

22. Shin Ki Ryoku, the heart of refined Kendo by Gary O'Donnell, Sensei, Nanadan

23. AJKF Kendo Kata 

24.  In depth Kata teaching by Masayoshi Miyazaki sensei and Hiro Imafuj sensei (2015)