[Vjwkvkoy]

Cool, I hope you'll like what you see at the Kendo dojo.

Btw, Kendo is not just with a "bamboo stick". It's still a sword. Also in Kendo Katas (forms) you use either bokken or bokkuto (wooden swords) or when you're advanced you use the real swords. But for the full contact fights we use bamboo swords.

Also you have iaido (see subforum) which is the art of the drawing of the sword, and naginata which is a samurai's lance (I think that's the proper english word, not so sure) and jodo, which is more or less "stick fighting". Then you also still have different styles that focus on different things. For example some people focus only on the wooden swords and the training of cutting movements in a drill sort of way. I'm also still learning about the many different kinds and I'm not sure if they fall directly under "kendo" or if they're more or less their own branch so to speak.

Anyway, enjoy your visit to the dojo! I need to go to bed now cause I have practice tomorrow Whee Kendo!