{"id":99,"date":"2006-09-22T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2006\/09\/22\/12\/99\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T00:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:08:35","slug":"myo-sim-kendo-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2006\/09\/22\/12\/99\/","title":{"rendered":"Myo Sim Kendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since March 9th I have been going once a week to an informal kendo class comprised of myself, a few other students from the original Kendo class, and a few new ones. The class met on Thursdays originally and switched to Fridays as of the 25th of August. Starting out, Hiroko and I took turns leading the class, however of late I lead class and we consult with each other on questions we are unsure of. Over the past few months, I have incorporated aspects of my Western Circle training, creating  a cutting pattern #1 for the kendo class that is equivelent to the WCoS cutting pattern #1 and implementing WCoS training fundementals such as parry (one-attack sparring) and just recently the pairing off and demonstrating requirements as the warm up. I am pleased with the progress of the class and hope to start some light to medium sparring in the near future (with the kendo shanai, gloves, wrist protection, and helmets &#8211; throat protection and any other available protective gear will be recommended, though since it is shanai combat rather than boken, there is less worry of bodily damage).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since March 9th I have been going once a week to an informal kendo class comprised of myself, a few other students from the original Kendo class, and a few new ones. The class met on Thursdays originally and switched to Fridays as of the 25th of August. Starting out, Hiroko and I took turns [&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-99","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\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}