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**Mr_White** · 11-11-2010, 10:48 AM

Kendo refereeing is already tremendously accurate

I have never seen any kind of objective analysis of the accuracy of kendo refereeing. To measure it as accurate, we would have to look at a set of actual calls and to compare them against a set of idealized calls to see how often they match up. I don't know for sure that there is any corpus of such idealized calls, or that there is even a consistent way to draw them up. Even kodansha can reasonably disagree about whether or not a particular point should be taken or not.

why would you even consider implementing something that actually lessens the self rather than improving it?

This is a really, really interesting point. Learning to do shimpan is very difficult and studying how to do it generates a lot of insight about kendo. I have never thought of acting as shimpan as a form of keiko before, but you have made me see that it is, in some sense, exactly that. From that sense, taking away the difficulties and pressures of acting as shimpan with electronic aids maybe directly affects the development of high level kendo skill. That's a new thought for me.

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Mr_White Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 594 Senior Member	Kendo refereeing is already tremendously accurate I have never seen any kind of objective analysis of the accuracy of kendo refereeing. To measure it as accurate, we would have to look at a set of actual calls and to compare them against a set of idealized calls to see how often they match up. I don't know for sure that there is any corpus of such idealized calls, or that there is even a consistent way to draw them up. Even kodansha can reasonably disagree about whether or not a particular point should be taken or not. why would you even consider implementing something that actually lessens the self rather than improving it? This is a really, really interesting point. Learning to do shimpan is very difficult and studying how to do it generates a lot of insight about kendo. I have never thought of acting as shimpan as a form of keiko before, but you have made me see that it is, in some sense, exactly that. From that sense, taking away the difficulties and pressures of acting as shimpan with electronic aids maybe directly affects the development of high level kendo skill. That's a new thought for me.
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