[Domovoy]

only the 3 of us!? i am dissapointed..

[MarlboroCig]

i'm 21...
is that considered old??

[anfuckinggs]

I'm 19..I'm not the youngest in my dojo tho...the youngest is probably a 14 yo nikyu..(or is it 15..i have no idea)..we had a kid join in last beginners class..dunno whether he'll still be coming

[QQQQQ-Trek]

I'm 13......Ryuu-chan is probably the youngest on the boards.....

[thehhhyips]

Ha ha! Nobody can beat my age!
sorry........
Getting carried away! I can finally relish in the fact that i am the youngest in my yeargroup, and my dojo
I'm 12 ha ha ha ha ha.........
i'm going over the top now....
WHO CARES! Im 12... i'm 12 ha ha ha.....
I'm aloud to be stupid cos i'm young he he he

[NumDusthouh]

reicheru: Well, all of the people at the dojang call them belts. They are the same as the tags that everyone wears w/ their name on them, except ours look a little different. For us, we have our school symbol in a circle in the middle of the tag and it is colored the color of the "belt" we hold. Our name is written in English under the symbol.

[SigNeewfoew]

From observation, I would say that an adult would progress faster than a teenager in Kendo. They take things more seriously. They don't practice for the "fun" of it.

But they tend to move slower (due to aging???) and use too much of their upper body strength.

There aren't many parents who would like to let their kids to take up martial arts in an early age. But it's reverse in East Asia. I personally know a HK Wushu Team member who trained since the age of 5, and she's now the instructor of Uni Arizona's Wushu club. Another one is a HK Judo Team member who got her blackbelt at 14, and she'd participated in the Uni Olympics.

Maybe cases I know are quite extreme since I also know plenty of friends who had Grade 8 Piano, who started playing since 5 or so.

I guess parents in this generation would rather keep their Kids with their Playstation 2 and play indoor in an isolated environment all day long. I was brought up like that

p.s. I'm 20, the youngest regular in my dojo (the 2nd youngest is 29!!). And I'm still underage for comsuming alcohol in the US...

[aaafluochugh]

I'm 14! and i'm nikyu, just started last year... I do take kendo seriously! Well I try to. I have a lot of problems convincing my parents to let me go to championships out Montreal... (there's 1-2 only championships here ).

[Heessduernbub]

I'm 17, and will probably be starting Kendo sometime soon.

[HawksBurnDown]

From observation, I would say that an adult would progress faster than a teenager in Kendo. They take things more seriously. They don't practice for the "fun" of it.

I'm 21 and I do practice for the fun of it, on the other hand I'm not regarded as thé most mature person (I've got plenty of time to feel old so I enjoy being young for now ) .

BTW you're profile says you're 22

[weO1bVp1]

I'm 22. Not under the twenty limit, but not fitting in the old kendoka list. Started almost 4 months ago.

[Pataacculako]

i am 17 also :P
how long have you guys been doing kendo?
and what rank do you hold?

[truttyMab]

Hi, Jenny

I have to disagree with you on the not taking it seriously idea.

My cousin Mark (The young guy who won the Lidstone), he is only 14 (Shodan), he takes it very seriously. I suppose that it does help with him being very good. I not looking forward to the day when he starts to kick my Ass

He enters all the compititions he can, and takes it more seriously than some of the seniors at the club.

But I suppose he could be the exception to the rule in Britian.

[HomePageOEMfreeSOFTWARE]

I'm 17. There are a lot of people in kendo younger than 20 around.

[foodselfdourileka]

I'm 17.. Brown belt (equivalent to 4th Kyu)

how about yourself?

[sztc38tg]

I'm younger than 20 mentally. Does that count?

Tss, if it did, we should find that the average age of all people on Earth is 7