The traditional gi (uniform) are worn, but over this are budogu,
which is fencing armor. This is about the same as what the western
fencers wear.
The men wear a face mask with a throat protector, they also wear
a breastplate, and a kote, which are a set of gloves and gauntlets,
along with a tare, which is a heavy apron. In these types of sword
arts sparing the legal strikes are as follows; a strike to the wrists,
the sides of the body, three cuts to the head (left, right, and
center), one thrust to the throat.
This is done on a defined area, which is a square about 10 meters
on each side. this is the legal mat area, Then to win the sword arts
match, it takes two legal strikes as is called by judges.
The advancement is done by being awarded a class of kyu and
dan, this is really similar to the colored belt systems in other
martial arts. However, the obi, if worn, (sometimes deleted)
always remains the same color.
If a person looks at the higher dan levels one is required to show
small amount technique with a real sword in ten kata, with both
long (daito, katana or tachi) and short (shoto, wakizashi) swords.
Ancient ryu have mostly disappeared within sword arts kendo
training. So they lean more to the sport aspects of this ancient
sword arts training.
Click the link above to find out more about the Sword Arts;
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