the shinai, weapon of choice

There are tons of sorts of shinai out there, but how to choose?

The best answer given is probably, choose one you´re comftable with.

That’s rather easy if you are lucky enough to have a well equipped kendo-store near your home.

Visit, pick up many different shinai and buy one that suits your fancy, presto.

If you´re not in this rather enjoyable situation, the big journey starts.

Check an online store, order different shinai, realize after the first few keikos that 4 out of 5 shinai you´ve ordered are not what you’re looking for.

Repeat......... oh boy.

Second to this issue, most of us go through different stages of kendo and will mention a constant change of the needs and fancy´s they have.

I´ve always been rather picky on which shinai I´m going to buy or I´m going to use.

But I think I finally found my preferred setup.

Lately I started to feel most comftable with the following:

39 Kotogata shinai, 26mm round handle with 38 tsukagawa.

I´ll make several different upcoming posts about the differences and pros/con regarding everything,

so stay tuned

first step.....

Well.....

after stumbling around on tumblr for a while now and being somewhat unsatisfied with it wanted to do something different , I finallly managed to set up this blog (or better said, I am still setting it up...).

Please don´t expect too much in the beginning, but when the machine starts to runs, I´ll try to post all the things I consider to be related to kendo, my big passion.

So long.....