Photo by A. Melton It's been a while. I seem to write that a lot. Not for lack of thought, though. I've been doing the "kendo grind" lately, as I call it ( The Kendo Grind ). A lot of it! I have some big plans that are in motion right now that I'll post about later on. But for now I wanted to look back on something that is near and dear to my heart, mainly because I went through it myself. I recently read an article about returning to kendo written by Zoe Hinis. It was a well-written article and touched on a lot of points that I had considered myself. But I wanted to write this and put it out there as a look at it from the viewpoint of someone that went through it. A little backstory, to start. The first time I stepped into a kendo dojo was WAY back in 2004. I had heard of this "kendo" thing and wanted to check it out. I had always wanted to take up a martial art, and I had always loved swords, so when I heard that there was a martial
One man's Kendo journey