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**TughEmotteTug** · 08-19-2009, 12:19 PM

Do you use a shinai that's smaller than 39, or know of any adult male that does? That's not the point anyway, taking a standard shinai of 39 and a standard bokuto is there a known reason why the shinai is longer, you can obviously use what ever length you want but the standard is 39, for men at least.

Well exactly, there is no reason that a kendo bokuto is the length it is, other than that is the length we use for kendo, there are other koryu that use much longer swords, Historically speaking you used the longest sword you could swing, as it gave you the same advantage.

another question you could ask is why does a shinai weight about half what a typical shinken does as well?

08-19-2009, 12:19 PM	#6
TughEmotteTug Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	Do you use a shinai that's smaller than 39, or know of any adult male that does? That's not the point anyway, taking a standard shinai of 39 and a standard bokuto is there a known reason why the shinai is longer, you can obviously use what ever length you want but the standard is 39, for men at least. Well exactly, there is no reason that a kendo bokuto is the length it is, other than that is the length we use for kendo, there are other koryu that use much longer swords, Historically speaking you used the longest sword you could swing, as it gave you the same advantage. another question you could ask is why does a shinai weight about half what a typical shinken does as well?
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