[orapope]

- Getting rid of sankyo during matches. Bowing is enough. Sankyo is redundant.

- Allowing cheering as in other sports. This makes it better for spectators and for some competitors.

- Allowing more diversity in color and decoration in uniforms and equipment.

- Allowing the use of local language in both court commands and zekken/myong-pan identification. There's no objection reason why "hajime" is somehow superior to "begin" or whatever the Spanish equivalent is for Mexican players, etc. . .

Hmmnnn....

Ettiqutte is part of the refinement of Kendo. It's like how fencers salute each other with the foil raised to the face.

Cheering...kendo, like tennis, golf, etc requires concentration during shia...people do cheer but only after a good cut or score. If you look at the last hole in the first MAsters that tiger woods won you will notice after his drive he looks back at the crowd in anger. This was because someone had shouted during his swing. Concentration is important.

colour, decoration? Hmmnn...are we allowed to wear coloured do in shia? Hmnnn...or are we talking about coloured hakama and kendogi? Well, the nightmare I have with this is that one day we will see a kendoka in the National Champs with a pink kendogi with the Nike logo splashed on the back.

Language- Kendo is a japanese art that should retain some of its culture, its like taking away thebrazilian music in capoera and replacing it with local music.

Meng