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**Queuerriptota** · 04-09-2009, 01:59 PM

We get our supply of kids from the fact that we are part of the YMCA, so parents just see us in the program guide and ask little Johnny if he wants to try kendo. I haven't found demos at schools to be particularly successful.

I'd imagine that lots of demos are seen more as entertainment, that is a display of this 'strange' art for the entertainment of the public. Note that 'strange didn't mean 'bad'.

I don't know how to promote kendo. I know that HK (as opposed to HDGD) is more about word of mouth, but then you have to have interested people.

I think that this is cultural, in that now we live in the age of Nintendo DS, and lots of kids don't want to train in a diccicult, taxing, smelly (sorry), thing that has not real immediate rewards.

04-09-2009, 01:59 PM	#13
Queuerriptota Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 346 Senior Member	We get our supply of kids from the fact that we are part of the YMCA, so parents just see us in the program guide and ask little Johnny if he wants to try kendo. I haven't found demos at schools to be particularly successful. I'd imagine that lots of demos are seen more as entertainment, that is a display of this 'strange' art for the entertainment of the public. Note that 'strange didn't mean 'bad'. I don't know how to promote kendo. I know that HK (as opposed to HDGD) is more about word of mouth, but then you have to have interested people. I think that this is cultural, in that now we live in the age of Nintendo DS, and lots of kids don't want to train in a diccicult, taxing, smelly (sorry), thing that has not real immediate rewards.
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