Category Archives: Iaido
2011 Greater Kansas City Japan Festival
Another year, another Japan Festival! This is definitely one of my favorite things to do in the year, something I always look forward to when the summer nights start to cool off and the campus bells remind me that it’s … Continue reading
Filed under Budo, Event, Iaido, Kendo, Right Living
2010 Greater Kansas City Japan Festival
2Oct10 I attended, as is my custom, the Greater Kansas City Japan Festival, hosted by the Heart of America Japan-America Society with Johnson County Community College. They have this awesome torii that they bring out to the event. As I’ve mentioned … Continue reading
2009 Greater Kansas City Japan Festival
Today was an exhausting day. The Greater Kansas City Japan Festival was held again by the Heart of America Japan-America Society of Kansas City. I was involved in workshops and demonstrations all day. It started out for me with the iaido workshop, which was attended fairly well. We lent bokuto to about a dozen people and performed two or three kihon waza. Here I got to feel confident and cool, but that changed after the workshop when we went up on stage to do the demonstration. Continue reading
Electrified Foot Stomper
Thursday at fencing I had my first electrified bouts. During the practice we were fencing dry, and I did well enough to win a bout against a senior student. Once we got electrified I wasn’t sure what was going on … Continue reading
