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**en-druzhba** · 06-03-2006, 08:00 AM

Oh BTW, most of dojang (dojo) in Korea is run as business not by volunteer sensei. So getting a lot of student is very important.

What do you think?

Center..

This is the same in North America, no? Other than university clubs, every kumdo dojang I see has its own place and offers classes multiple times a day on multiple days, whereas a kendo dojo rents some place for 1 or 2 nights a week. As such, a kumdo student might train 1 hour a day but 3 or 4 days a week, whereas a kendo student trains once a week in a 3-hr session. The Korean approach seems to benefit a beginner more, from what I see in tournaments...

Also I notice that even on internet, Koreans seem to put a lot more effort into "digitizing" kendo. You see these Korean kumdo sites that offer an amazing amount of footages for downloading, and you hardly ever see any Japanese kendo sites doing the same thing. Not only that, Korean kumdo footages often have accompanying dramatic soundtracks, whereas Japanese kendo clips usualy have nothing but a shinai swinging around...

All in all, being a non-Korean, I find this unbounded enthusiasm very interesting. At the very least, they have the dramatic progress in tournament success to show for it. How close they came to winning the team championship this year!

06-03-2006, 08:00 AM	#24
en-druzhba Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	Oh BTW, most of dojang (dojo) in Korea is run as business not by volunteer sensei. So getting a lot of student is very important. What do you think? Center.. This is the same in North America, no? Other than university clubs, every kumdo dojang I see has its own place and offers classes multiple times a day on multiple days, whereas a kendo dojo rents some place for 1 or 2 nights a week. As such, a kumdo student might train 1 hour a day but 3 or 4 days a week, whereas a kendo student trains once a week in a 3-hr session. The Korean approach seems to benefit a beginner more, from what I see in tournaments... Also I notice that even on internet, Koreans seem to put a lot more effort into "digitizing" kendo. You see these Korean kumdo sites that offer an amazing amount of footages for downloading, and you hardly ever see any Japanese kendo sites doing the same thing. Not only that, Korean kumdo footages often have accompanying dramatic soundtracks, whereas Japanese kendo clips usualy have nothing but a shinai swinging around... All in all, being a non-Korean, I find this unbounded enthusiasm very interesting. At the very least, they have the dramatic progress in tournament success to show for it. How close they came to winning the team championship this year!
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