In the Chūdan stance, your right foot is in front and the left foot is in the back, you kick off with the left foot and step in with the right foot. Of course Kendo is not about winning or losing, however to me, thinking about how to win and how to perfect my technique while doing Keiko was very fun and made it more interesting do Kendo. Eventually my winning percentage started increasing and Kendo became fun again. Until then I was using Chūdan-no-kamae(中段の構え) but I was unable to produce the any significant results and was making little progress and because of that I couldn’t enjoy doing Kendo anymore.Īfter I switched to the Jōdan stance, the Keiko was severe and physical burden was heavy, but because I’m 166cm tall, which is of the taller kind for women in Japan, I was able to make full use of my reach during Keiko. When I was in high school, the Kendo instructor in my Kendo club suggested that I take up the Jōdan kamae, and because of this I started using the Jōdan stance. Jōdan-no-kamae (上段の構え) is one of the five kamae in Kendo and is also called hi-no-kamae (火の構え), meaning “the stance of fire.” Jōdan does not allow for retreat, it is intimidating, and it is a technique that requires you make a one-hit-kill, lest you find yourself in a less than ideal position.
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