{"id":118,"date":"2007-02-06T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2007\/02\/06\/00\/118\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T00:08:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:08:34","slug":"kendo-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2007\/02\/06\/00\/118\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendo supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered some kote (kendo sparring gloves) and a new shinai from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-bogu.com\/\" target=\"ebogu\" rel=\"noopener\">E-BOGU<\/a> today. I dislike the style of kendo gloves, but I will need them to continue in this art, and I hope to prod some of the other students into getting some as they will improve their wrist and arm positioning in practices. The shinai is a specialized style with the lower section of the tsuka (handle\/grip) being oval, providing a more natural and real grip which thereby provides more control. I look forward to recieving it and seeing how it works for me.<\/p>\n<p>Links to specific products:<br \/>\n &#8211;   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-bogu.com\/OBARU_Complete_Size_39_p\/hay-ken-shi-obarucomp--39.htm\" target=\"ebogu\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Obaru&#8221; Shinai<\/a><br \/>\n &#8211;   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-bogu.com\/High_Quality_5_mm_Machine_Stitched_Kote_p\/woo-ken-bog-hq5mmkote--.htm\" target=\"ebogu\" rel=\"noopener\">Leather and Fabric Kote<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered some kote (kendo sparring gloves) and a new shinai from E-BOGU today. I dislike the style of kendo gloves, but I will need them to continue in this art, and I hope to prod some of the other students into getting some as they will improve their wrist and arm positioning in practices. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kendo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}