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It is a really quite day at work and I have nothing to do. So time to humour everyone with my poor grammar skills.

I'm sorry to say, but you aren't really learning real kendo or any other Japanese sword art. We NEVER attack each other with a bokken(or a real sword, for that matter, to clarify things.) in any Japanese sword art. Not even in our kata. We don't actually touch a person. We don't want to kill or maim anyone.

Never is a bit strong. We do Kata against an opponent. And I have been hit on the head by a bokken by a person who didn't pull his cut.
I fount it pretty amusing. The guy was going for his Shodan (so knew what he was doing) and he was meant to stop the cut just above my forehead. However he was so nervous he forgot to pull the cut and gave me a decent wack. I didn't flinch and continued on with the kata, The guy was shaken and with his next attack pull it way to short (a cut to the wrist). Observers noted that the blow to my head looked painful.
Also high level Dan grades do kata with metal blades. These blades are not Iaito or Shinken, they have been tempers to handle the impact of collision with another blade (I have seen Iaito get bent out of shape due to been used in kendo kata).

Anyway what I am trying to say, Bokken are ore dangerous when people become comfortable using them. At the moment Praveens is worried about hurting his instructor and pulling his cut early. The real danger is when you get confident but lose focus or don't yet have enough control.

As I said in a earlier post this is revenant to kendo, as I don't have experience in other arts