The Kendo Skill Nobody’s Teaching (But Everyone’s Using)

There’s a skill your students use in every keiko, but almost no one teaches it. It’s not footwork. It’s not seme. It’s the voice in their head — and you can coach it.

The Match-Winning Skill You’re Not Training (YET)

In kendo, focus will break. A bad call, a slip up...and suddenly, you’re gone. At my first World Kendo Championships in Santa Clara, I learned the hard way that the real skill isn’t never losing focus. It’s snapping back in before the next 'hajime'. Here’s how to train it.