Yesterday, 2018 all japan kendo
championship (AJKC) was held at Nippon Budokan.
The final match players were same as last
year as well as all japan police kendo championship final. So, Nishimura and
Uchimura.
I would like to mention about age.
Nishimura is still young but Uchimura is already 38 years old. And most of top
kendo players are 20 to mid 30’s, so it is amazing he kept high-quality
performance even now.
Getting back on track of their match now.
Following is the final uploaded by all Japan kendo federation.
Uchimura won his matches before final with
Men-kaeshi-Men, which is very difficult technique and many player are not able
to imitate what he did. I will try to explain another time for this.
In this final, Nishimura tried similar
stroke at 0:18. It is just a guess, but he researched Uchimura’s wins and he
might try to break off Uchimura’s rhythm.
0:35- Uchimura’s guard was sticking his arm
in front to clinch Nishimura.
However, this guard was not perfectly
defense his territory and effectiveness is also depend on the footwork.
Nishimura hit this small unguarded space very skillfully as you see the first
Kote.
Uchimura is not good at Nishimura in terms
of his kendo style in my opinion. And he has limited option what to do next. So
he chose to hit Do, but it was not good choice this time, as he made unguarded
Kote again.
Nishimura is very good at defensive when he
is good condition of his offense, and in such case, for opponent player, it is
very hard to find any place to hit.
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