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A set of bōgu for kendo Kendo practitioners wearing bōgu in training Bōgu ( 防具 , 'armour') , [ 1 ] properly called kendōgu ( 剣道具 , 'kendo equipment') , is training armour used primarily in the Japanese martial art of kendo , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] with variants used for jūkendō , tankendo, and naginata .
A scorable point (有効打突, yūkō-datotsu) in a kendo competition (tai-kai) is defined as an accurate strike or thrust made onto a datotsu-bui of the opponent's kendo-gu with the shinai making contact at its datotsu-bu, the competitor displaying high spirits, correct posture and followed by zanshin. [37] [clarification needed]
Kumdo (Korean: 검도; lit. the way of the sword) is a modern Korean martial art derived from kendo, the Japanese discipline of swordsmanship. [1] The name is also romanized as Kŏmdo, Keomdo, Gumdo, and Geomdo.
Gu Ruzhang (1894–1952) was a Chinese martial artist who disseminated the Bak Siu Lum (Northern Shaolin) martial arts system across southern China in the early 20th century. Gu was known for his expertise in Iron Palm hand conditioning among other Chinese martial art training exercises.
Hup Kwon Do is a hybrid style of Taekwondo created by a Malayan martial artist called Grandmaster Lee in 1989. He opened his first school in Penang, and originally developed this system as a self-defense technique, mixing Taekwondo with a multitude of other martial arts, such as Kendo, Bokken, Wado Shimpo, Kickboxing and Karate.
Gordon Warner at USCAR (1967) Gordon Warner (1913 – March 4, 2010) [1] [2] was an American one-legged swordsman who became the highest-ranked westerner in the Japanese martial art of kendo.
Kendo practice at an agricultural school c.1920. The person at right in the foreground is in chūdan-no-kamae, the person at left is in jōdan-no-kamae.. Chūdan-no-kamae (中段の構え:ちゅうだんのかまえ), sometimes shortened to Chūdan-gamae or simply Chūdan, is a basic weapon stance in many Japanese martial arts.
Practitioners of the Niten Ichi-ryū school of kenjutsu demonstrating a kata.The man on the left is in gedan-no-kamae. Gedan-no-kamae (下段の構え Hiragana: げだんのかまえ), frequently shortened simply to gedan, occasionally shortened to gedan-gamae, is one of the five stances in kendo: jōdan, chūdan, gedan, hassō, and waki.