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**AdobebePhoto** · 04-10-2006, 08:37 AM

I apologise if such a thread has already been done, although if it has, I'd like to see the thread links so I can read it for myself ^^

This isn't a thread about which is better out of Iaido and Kendo, at all.
More so an interest in what people think...to get a true feeling of using the sword, or to truly be able to call yourself a swordsman/woman, should you train in both Kendo and Iaido?

I know that there are things in Kendo that you don't do in Iaido, and vice versa. For example, in Iaido, noto is important, even more so as you aim to train with a live sword one day and don't want to chop your hand off... whereas in Kendo, you already start with the sword out. There is more..well spirit, I'd say, in Kendo than Iaido, because you depend on that more than we do.... kind of hard to do kiai against an imaginary opponent (when you actually manage to think up one)...and to make it feel like you are actually hitting something - when you are not!

This is something I have often discussed with the guy I am seeing...he does Kendo, cant train in Iaido as there is no dojo near him, I train in Iaido... considering starting Kendo at the Preston club, when I can afford lots of trips to Preston and the equipment.... he says that in order to be able to call yourself a swordsmen, you have to train in both Iaido and Kendo...

So what do you all think? Have those that do both found that they can use one swordsart to improve the other? Or has anyone found it quite hard to commit to both swordsarts? Or that they are doing Kendo cuts (don't know the terminology) in Iaido, or vice versa...or any other things?

04-10-2006, 08:37 AM	#1
AdobebePhoto Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 428 Senior Member	Should one train in both? I apologise if such a thread has already been done, although if it has, I'd like to see the thread links so I can read it for myself ^^ This isn't a thread about which is better out of Iaido and Kendo, at all. More so an interest in what people think...to get a true feeling of using the sword, or to truly be able to call yourself a swordsman/woman, should you train in both Kendo and Iaido? I know that there are things in Kendo that you don't do in Iaido, and vice versa. For example, in Iaido, noto is important, even more so as you aim to train with a live sword one day and don't want to chop your hand off... whereas in Kendo, you already start with the sword out. There is more..well spirit, I'd say, in Kendo than Iaido, because you depend on that more than we do.... kind of hard to do kiai against an imaginary opponent (when you actually manage to think up one)...and to make it feel like you are actually hitting something - when you are not! This is something I have often discussed with the guy I am seeing...he does Kendo, cant train in Iaido as there is no dojo near him, I train in Iaido... considering starting Kendo at the Preston club, when I can afford lots of trips to Preston and the equipment.... he says that in order to be able to call yourself a swordsmen, you have to train in both Iaido and Kendo... So what do you all think? Have those that do both found that they can use one swordsart to improve the other? Or has anyone found it quite hard to commit to both swordsarts? Or that they are doing Kendo cuts (don't know the terminology) in Iaido, or vice versa...or any other things?
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