0:51: Normal Lunges 1:31: Walking Lunges 1:48: Lunges on a Spot 2:18: Lunges with Switching Feet 2:39: Lunges with Stepping 3:32: Normal Matawari 4:54: Matawari Variatio 6:01: Twist Sayu Men 7:56: Hayasuburi Variations 9:08: Hayasuburi to Small Strike with Ki Ken Tai Icchi 10:54: Sayu men with Hiraki-ashi Hope you like the video! Let me know what you think. As @Michael Villis says, there is no doubt that the "basics" is most important. I am just introducing variations of suburi. Any questions and suggestions are more than welcome. So leave them here!
I have a relatively heavy bokuto to practice with and I did it the first time few days back and my forearms and shoulders got an incredible workout. I do gym but this is actually a relevant skill to master for practical strength. hopefully I will get good enough to swing it swiftly and aptly
Thank you for sharing your experience, @cpkeyes1823! 😄 It's inspiring to hear how the bokuto is helping you strengthen your forearms and shoulders. Keep up the great work! Pay attention to relaxing. It is easy to get tense and lose the correct form, and then your effort will not work as you expect it to work. Good luck!
有難う 先生, i have been following you for 2 years now, learning kendo from you so keep up the great work, i have always wanted to be a samurai so i have made my own 侍 鎧, wish that i can show to you one day.
Happy to hear that! Thank you for following me for 2 years! I don't really teach how to become a samurai but sharing their teachings with you. :) Hope that is helpful :D Keep it up and one day you can go to a dojo!
You said everything I did not want to hear. I am old, I am soooo old. 60 here I come. I have Suburi Bokuto. The Heavy ones, being that I never studied Kendo, instead Kenjutsu. That's why I joked about Kesagiri last year. I of course have Shinai and many Bokken varieties. My problem is both knees from Seiza Iai Waza, and I did Togishi for a few decades. I have more serious Hip issues now than knee problems. I tolerate my knees well, my hips are excruciating. I simply refuse to have surgery. I work in Pulmonary, I have seen too many failures to respond to surgical intervention. Oh I forgot. Tate Hiza. My favorite position. That was foolish of me. I hope you're doing well Imafuji Sensei. Genkide Ite.
Please you too, take care of yourself. We live in such a unusual time now. Please, 60 is not old! I am just speaking "generally". You know these sensei over 70 years old still beat young guys in kendo! Where were you when you were working as togishi? In Japan? I am so curious so I'd love to go and watch how they make a katana and of course polish or sharpen. I have seen one time but it was not long enough! I had acute asthma after I had my knee surgery. And unfortunately, they didn't have a lung specialist when I was in a bad condition. That was over weekend and they apparently said that the pulmonologist would not come until Monday! the nurses though I was not going to make it til Monday because they didn't know what was wrong with me. I had bronchitis and pneumoniai and they gave me medications for them. But not acute asthma because I had never had asthma until then. As long as healthy and we can do what we want, then that is what we want. So let's stay safe, healthy and strong!!
@@KendoGuide Boy, if you we're at my Hospital that likely wouldn't have happened. We have post operative Pulmonary Protocols. It allows us to write any order for medication and delivery system until the Pulmonologist does sees the patient and consequently adjusts the orders. Another thing is that many Hospitals did away with IPPB, and only use Nebulizers, and Inhalers. IPPB is a pressurized treatment. We give the Albuterol or whatever through a Nebulizer, except it isn't reliant on Inspiratory Effort and Capacity, it's actually pushed into your Airways and Lumgs at 18-22cm H2O pressure. It's Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing. So we open the Alveoli a bit more effectively. We still have a number of those machines in service and order it frequently. We do Cardiac Surgery here, it helps to have all possible treatment modalities available when you're cracking chests open. My Togishi history is admittedly unorthodox. I joined a Dojo that well, uses Shinken. We spend the first year with Bokken. Then we all are told time to get one if you don't have one. Today there are so many production Swords available. It wasn't like that in the early to mid 80s. We went to gun shows, flea markets, JSSUS shows, etc. To find our Shinken and refit it for the Dojo. On of the Renshi was a woodworker. He made perfect Shirasaya, and Standard Saya, Tsuka. He also did forging of copper and nickel, etc, and made Mokume fittings if I sword had none. He made perfect Habaki also. Well, I noticed that he was trying to polish the sword also, with Sandpaper. One night after class I asked Sensei about this. He agreed with me that we shouldn't let him do that. Sensei then kept me after class for Nakura instructions. He started send stones home with me. Training on junk swords, then, Oil Quenched Mono Nanban Tetsu types. By then I had bought multiple swords and had a No Shu Seki Ju Kane Michi with Hada that had chips, pits, rust. He instructed me through Jihada and Hadori. One day I came to the Dojo and he have me a gift. A complete stone kit. Brand new for me. It was one of those $500 Kits. Available at Namikawa Shoten. Unfortunately as you use stone, it disappears. I ordered the next set and the stones had already been downgraded. Less stone, lower quality stones also. Meanwhile I was going to Guns shows and hanging out with the local Shotokan Sensei. He hired me to clean up a couple of his swords. A few shows later, he's displaying them. Someone stops at the table. And older Nihonjin man. Everyone seemed to know who he was. They called him Dr Wada. Tsugayasu Wada. What kind of Doctor? PhD Metallurgist from Nihon working here in Michigan at Kenametal. Wada Sensei was looking at the swords I had worked on. He asked, who polished the sword. Everyone pointed at me. He became my Wada Sensei. I got thousands of dollars in Stone, Tunsten Carbide Migaki Bo all because of him, the best equipment and an expert in Tersu. I'm sorry, this isn't easy to even type. I've been lost without him. He made everything happen for me here, to the best of his abilities. He entrusted me with 3rd Generation Ise Muramasa, and many many incredible Nihonto. Right when everything was going beyond my dreams. Traveling to JSSUS Nihonto shows, planning on going to Nihon, etc. Like the Sakura My world ended I have not been the same since. What happened, well, I "was" married. BTW. My name is Alex. The President of the JSSUS knows me. I have worked for him also. I stay out of public now. I am older and wiser. Like Musashi I made a Cave (figuratively speaking) to spend the rest of my time in. I'm a Monk now. I'm typing on a cell phone. I tried to get all of the errors corrected. It appears to be impossible. 😂
Imafuji Sensei. I will never forget that day. OMG, Wada Sensei just looked at me silent. I was melting inside. I thought what have I done!!! This larger Very Serious Nihonjin Man comes up behind him. Wada Sensei he's Funabashi san he looks at my work and looks at Wada Sensei, and shrugs. Funabashi san looked at me very differently. Sort of that Yakuza Oyabun look, you understand right? I know that you do. OMG I was shrinking, becoming smaller and smaller. LOL. They left.........the next Monroeville Gunshow. Wada Sensei starts talking to me. My whole world changed forever. Study Oshigata, Books, Books, Books, Nihonto Koza, Hawleys, on an on. Regardless of how things worked out. I am incredibly fortunate, gifted with knowledge I never thought I would have. Gifted with time and friends I never thought I would have. Wada Sensei passed away some years ago. May you rest in Peace Wada Sensei. And thank you Imafuji Sensei for being here for us. Domo Arigatogozaimashita! 🙏
Thank you too! I watched your video! Not sure what you were saying or writing there but I enjoyed watching it! Can you train now in Korea? We are still in lockdown. Stay safe, healthy and strong!
@@KendoGuide have u any tips on how i can improve my kendo at home in my garden...can u send me a Facebook friend request my profile picture is my mum and dad and a Manchester city crest in the background
I'd be careful if one is new or a novice (has not been to a dojo) of Kendo about swapping one's legs too much out of the standard form. I am all for being careful about not overworking one side to the point of failure of the other half of the body and listening to one's body to prevent injury. The reality is though that novices will think that they are free to swap their foot work around as much as they like in Kendo, which is not the case. It might be better to do the correct foot techniques for the majority of the time so your body develops a muscle memory around correct techniques, rather than thinking from a beginner's perspective that anything goes in terms of footwork, swings, areas to target and so on. It can look like in a Kendo match that anything can go, but the reality is that only some techniques are acceptable for scoring purposes. It's not necessarily about ingenuity, and more about efficiency in that sort of a setting. That's why there is so much repetition in Suburi. Not because it is boring, but because it is efficient.
Thank you very much for your input. That is a great reminder for beginners. You pointed out a muscle memory, repetition and correct techniques. I am all for it! That is why you need a good teacher. The basic is the core. And also many other ways to instruct kendo leading to the core are also important. That is my thought. You maybe didn't like the word "I get bored". That is me. I get bored quickly. :) After having been repeating the basics for almost 40 years, I also think a variety of ways to learn kendo for people, especially later starters, is necessary. You are right about some techniques are not efficient in kendo matches. And that is also why we lost many other techniques because there are not efficient to get a point in matches. That is also unfortunate. My goal here is not to efficiently get a point in matches or shiai. So these suburi is not for that purpose. If you want to get a point in shiai then you need to train to do so. Different purposes, different training. But again, you are right about muscle memory, repetition and correct techniques. I am with you. Again thank you very much for sharing your opinion. It is a good reminder for beginners!
I follow pencak silat, but i like to learn more about kendo because so interesting. Before i am join ju-jitsu but didn't continue to black belt and haven't about kendo tecnique 😄
0:51: Normal Lunges
1:31: Walking Lunges
1:48: Lunges on a Spot
2:18: Lunges with Switching Feet
2:39: Lunges with Stepping
3:32: Normal Matawari
4:54: Matawari Variatio
6:01: Twist Sayu Men
7:56: Hayasuburi Variations
9:08: Hayasuburi to Small Strike with Ki Ken Tai Icchi
10:54: Sayu men with Hiraki-ashi
Hope you like the video! Let me know what you think. As @Michael Villis says, there is no doubt that the "basics" is most important. I am just introducing variations of suburi. Any questions and suggestions are more than welcome. So leave them here!
I guess it's kinda randomly asking but does anybody know of a good place to watch newly released tv shows online?
@Kabir Jayceon lately I have been using FlixZone. Just google for it :)
@Noe Cameron definitely, I have been watching on flixzone for since april myself :)
@Noe Cameron Thanks, I went there and it seems like a nice service :) I really appreciate it !!
@Kabir Jayceon happy to help xD
Love the birds joining in and seem to be enjoying Kendo😅❤
I have a relatively heavy bokuto to practice with and I did it the first time few days back and my forearms and shoulders got an incredible workout. I do gym but this is actually a relevant skill to master for practical strength.
hopefully I will get good enough to swing it swiftly and aptly
Thank you for sharing your experience, @cpkeyes1823! 😄 It's inspiring to hear how the bokuto is helping you strengthen your forearms and shoulders. Keep up the great work! Pay attention to relaxing. It is easy to get tense and lose the correct form, and then your effort will not work as you expect it to work. Good luck!
This is good. I am a student of Taisha Ryu and use many of these variations for my suburi.
I'm making the most of being stuck at home and found your videos to give me something new to learn! Thanks!
Wonderful! Have fun and stay safe!
@@KendoGuide you too!
Thank you so much, Hiro Imafuji Sensei.
有難う 先生, i have been following you for 2 years now, learning kendo from you so keep up the great work, i have always wanted to be a samurai so i have made my own 侍 鎧, wish that i can show to you one day.
Happy to hear that! Thank you for following me for 2 years! I don't really teach how to become a samurai but sharing their teachings with you. :) Hope that is helpful :D Keep it up and one day you can go to a dojo!
@@KendoGuide 有難う 先生, it is super helpful.
Thanks man, very informative... Your suggestions is my starting point with my brand new bokkai 😂🎉
I appreciate your kind words! What is bokkai? Sorry. I never heard the word before.
You said everything I did not want to hear. I am old, I am soooo old. 60 here I come. I have Suburi Bokuto. The Heavy ones, being that I never studied Kendo, instead Kenjutsu. That's why I joked about Kesagiri last year. I of course have Shinai and many Bokken varieties. My problem is both knees from Seiza Iai Waza, and I did Togishi for a few decades. I have more serious Hip issues now than knee problems. I tolerate my knees well, my hips are excruciating. I simply refuse to have surgery. I work in Pulmonary, I have seen too many failures to respond to surgical intervention.
Oh I forgot. Tate Hiza. My favorite position. That was foolish of me.
I hope you're doing well Imafuji Sensei.
Genkide Ite.
HA! Sixty-FIVE, here I come. One rebuilt knee that loves lunges like I love liver. Not.
LOL! Please take it easy!
Please you too, take care of yourself. We live in such a unusual time now. Please, 60 is not old! I am just speaking "generally". You know these sensei over 70 years old still beat young guys in kendo!
Where were you when you were working as togishi? In Japan? I am so curious so I'd love to go and watch how they make a katana and of course polish or sharpen. I have seen one time but it was not long enough!
I had acute asthma after I had my knee surgery. And unfortunately, they didn't have a lung specialist when I was in a bad condition. That was over weekend and they apparently said that the pulmonologist would not come until Monday!
the nurses though I was not going to make it til Monday because they didn't know what was wrong with me. I had bronchitis and pneumoniai and they gave me medications for them. But not acute asthma because I had never had asthma until then.
As long as healthy and we can do what we want, then that is what we want. So let's stay safe, healthy and strong!!
@@KendoGuide Boy, if you we're at my Hospital that likely wouldn't have happened. We have post operative Pulmonary Protocols. It allows us to write any order for medication and delivery system until the Pulmonologist does sees the patient and consequently adjusts the orders. Another thing is that many Hospitals did away with IPPB, and only use Nebulizers, and Inhalers. IPPB is a pressurized treatment. We give the Albuterol or whatever through a Nebulizer, except it isn't reliant on Inspiratory Effort and Capacity, it's actually pushed into your Airways and Lumgs at 18-22cm H2O pressure. It's Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing. So we open the Alveoli a bit more effectively. We still have a number of those machines in service and order it frequently. We do Cardiac Surgery here, it helps to have all possible treatment modalities available when you're cracking chests open.
My Togishi history is admittedly unorthodox. I joined a Dojo that well, uses Shinken. We spend the first year with Bokken. Then we all are told time to get one if you don't have one. Today there are so many production Swords available. It wasn't like that in the early to mid 80s. We went to gun shows, flea markets, JSSUS shows, etc. To find our Shinken and refit it for the Dojo. On of the Renshi was a woodworker. He made perfect Shirasaya, and Standard Saya, Tsuka. He also did forging of copper and nickel, etc, and made Mokume fittings if I sword had none. He made perfect Habaki also. Well, I noticed that he was trying to polish the sword also, with Sandpaper. One night after class I asked Sensei about this. He agreed with me that we shouldn't let him do that. Sensei then kept me after class for Nakura instructions. He started send stones home with me. Training on junk swords, then, Oil Quenched Mono Nanban Tetsu types. By then I had bought multiple swords and had a No Shu Seki Ju Kane Michi with Hada that had chips, pits, rust. He instructed me through Jihada and Hadori. One day I came to the Dojo and he have me a gift. A complete stone kit. Brand new for me. It was one of those $500 Kits. Available at Namikawa Shoten. Unfortunately as you use stone, it disappears. I ordered the next set and the stones had already been downgraded. Less stone, lower quality stones also.
Meanwhile I was going to Guns shows and hanging out with the local Shotokan Sensei. He hired me to clean up a couple of his swords. A few shows later, he's displaying them. Someone stops at the table. And older Nihonjin man. Everyone seemed to know who he was. They called him Dr Wada. Tsugayasu Wada. What kind of Doctor? PhD Metallurgist from Nihon working here in Michigan at Kenametal. Wada Sensei was looking at the swords I had worked on. He asked, who polished the sword. Everyone pointed at me. He became my Wada Sensei. I got thousands of dollars in Stone, Tunsten Carbide Migaki Bo all because of him, the best equipment and an expert in Tersu. I'm sorry, this isn't easy to even type. I've been lost without him. He made everything happen for me here, to the best of his abilities. He entrusted me with 3rd Generation Ise Muramasa, and many many incredible Nihonto. Right when everything was going beyond my dreams. Traveling to JSSUS Nihonto shows, planning on going to Nihon, etc.
Like the Sakura
My world ended
I have not been the same since.
What happened, well, I "was" married.
BTW. My name is Alex. The President of the JSSUS knows me. I have worked for him also. I stay out of public now. I am older and wiser. Like Musashi I made a Cave (figuratively speaking) to spend the rest of my time in. I'm a Monk now.
I'm typing on a cell phone. I tried to get all of the errors corrected. It appears to be impossible. 😂
Imafuji Sensei. I will never forget that day. OMG, Wada Sensei just looked at me silent. I was melting inside. I thought what have I done!!!
This larger Very Serious Nihonjin Man comes up behind him. Wada Sensei he's Funabashi san he looks at my work and looks at Wada Sensei, and shrugs. Funabashi san looked at me very differently. Sort of that Yakuza Oyabun look, you understand right? I know that you do. OMG I was shrinking, becoming smaller and smaller. LOL.
They left.........the next Monroeville Gunshow. Wada Sensei starts talking to me. My whole world changed forever. Study Oshigata, Books, Books, Books, Nihonto Koza, Hawleys, on an on.
Regardless of how things worked out. I am incredibly fortunate, gifted with knowledge I never thought I would have. Gifted with time and friends I never thought I would have. Wada Sensei passed away some years ago.
May you rest in Peace Wada Sensei.
And thank you Imafuji Sensei for being here for us.
Domo Arigatogozaimashita! 🙏
Thank you very much to learn exactely what I want "the Kendo" !
Continue like that 😃
Thanks, will do!
Thank you for all the videos
My pleasure! Thank you!!
Wow. Thank you very much for your home workout routine Sensei. This is helpful.
thank you sensei. connect the body i sure need that. hope you and family are ok.
Thanks, Peter! My family and I are OK. Thanks! Hope the exercises help you!
Immidiately tried some of them this evening :) thanks
Fantastic! How did it go?
@@KendoGuide made me realize I do not train all parts of my body so I guess it is worth it :)
Extremely informative, i like it very much. Ty!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
It's hard to swing a sword when you're living in an apartment lol! I'm going to manifest me a house!
You don't need a sword to practice forms!
Ha?
@@KendoGuide Oh that's true, I didn't think about that!
Very nice! Thanks for the tips!
So many effective suburi !! Thank you~
Thank you too! I watched your video! Not sure what you were saying or writing there but I enjoyed watching it! Can you train now in Korea? We are still in lockdown. Stay safe, healthy and strong!
@@KendoGuide Thank you .
As the situation in Korea got better,
I'm practicing carefully wearing a mask in dojo.
Stay safe, healty!
Thank you so much sensei📿🎋🙏
You're most welcome! Please let me know if you have questions!
Saludos desde Venezuela 🇻🇪
Thanks a lot!
You're more than welcome!
Ouch on the "old" bit 😅
Absoulutly loved ur video..I will be definitely doing them
Yay! Thank you! Have fun! Any questions, let me know!
@@KendoGuide have u any tips on how i can improve my kendo at home in my garden...can u send me a Facebook friend request my profile picture is my mum and dad and a Manchester city crest in the background
Sandy san and I do jigeiko out on the background skateboard ramp. Neighbors are used to the screaming by now 😂
Wow! Hi Kate! Hope you are doing well! Well, it sounds like you are! You put a bogu on outside and shout!? Wow! Hats off!
Muchas gracias desde México.
De Nada! I hope you learned something!
Buenisimo gracias...
De nada! Let me know if you have any questions!
素晴らしい
ありがとうございます！
Thank you for your videos. Where in Indiana is your dojo located?
Thanks for your comment and you're welcome, P C! 😄 We are located near Fountain Square! Are you close?
Currently practicing Kumdo in New Jersey but grew up in Indpls. I want to recommend your dojo to my friends in Indpls.
I hope to visit you. Thank you.
I'd be careful if one is new or a novice (has not been to a dojo) of Kendo about swapping one's legs too much out of the standard form. I am all for being careful about not overworking one side to the point of failure of the other half of the body and listening to one's body to prevent injury. The reality is though that novices will think that they are free to swap their foot work around as much as they like in Kendo, which is not the case. It might be better to do the correct foot techniques for the majority of the time so your body develops a muscle memory around correct techniques, rather than thinking from a beginner's perspective that anything goes in terms of footwork, swings, areas to target and so on.
It can look like in a Kendo match that anything can go, but the reality is that only some techniques are acceptable for scoring purposes. It's not necessarily about ingenuity, and more about efficiency in that sort of a setting. That's why there is so much repetition in Suburi. Not because it is boring, but because it is efficient.
Thank you very much for your input. That is a great reminder for beginners. You pointed out a muscle memory, repetition and correct techniques. I am all for it! That is why you need a good teacher.
The basic is the core. And also many other ways to instruct kendo leading to the core are also important. That is my thought.
You maybe didn't like the word "I get bored". That is me. I get bored quickly. :) After having been repeating the basics for almost 40 years, I also think a variety of ways to learn kendo for people, especially later starters, is necessary.
You are right about some techniques are not efficient in kendo matches. And that is also why we lost many other techniques because there are not efficient to get a point in matches. That is also unfortunate.
My goal here is not to efficiently get a point in matches or shiai. So these suburi is not for that purpose. If you want to get a point in shiai then you need to train to do so. Different purposes, different training.
But again, you are right about muscle memory, repetition and correct techniques. I am with you.
Again thank you very much for sharing your opinion. It is a good reminder for beginners!
what if i dont have equipment? what should i use?
You can get one or if it’s hard you can use a stick. Don’t give up!
@@KendoGuide ok I will try
Nice !
Thanks!
ども ありがと せんしえ。
どういたしまして！
😂 what do I use. I dont think I should post kendo on youtube anymore.
I follow pencak silat, but i like to learn more about kendo because so interesting. Before i am join ju-jitsu but didn't continue to black belt and haven't about kendo tecnique 😄
Pencak silat? Sounds like pancake syrup. 🥞😊
Welcome to Kendo-Guide.Com TH-cam Channel! Hope you like the contents!
@@dtronin3063 haha look so delicious 😂