Photo Courtesy of Kendo Photography Last weekend my buddy and I competed in the 45th annual PNKF Taikai. Unfortunately we were the only ones that could attend, but we still meant to show our pride and skills on the floor for all of our dojo mates and others we've trained with. The weekend was full of not only great kendo and competition at the tournament itself, but also the night before as we were able to join Cascade Dojo's practice and train with the locals there as well as the Hawaiian team that had flown in for the tournament. It's always a pleasure to train with them as they have such nice, strong kendo, and I was able to get in lots of keiko with almost all of the visitors, as well as make some new friendships along the way. The practice was relatively light so it gave us plenty of time to train, catch up, chat a bit and still be ready for the next day. Saturday was upon us and we arrived early to the venue and warmed up with our friends from Kent and Fed
One man's Kendo journey