The following youtube video is from 2015
Kanto student kendo championship 2nd round. Red player is Yamashita
belong to Tsukuba Univ, and white player is Goto belongs to Tokai Univ.
In the match, swing speed or power in
shinai handling were almost same, but one player successfully caught good
chances to hit. So it made the differences.
At 1:11, red player hit Men from reverse
side. It might be a good try. But, soon after that, white player stroked Men to
find red player’s stuck in reverse.
It might be shallow hit, but the timing was
perfect and two judges decided to admit as ippon.
At 1:44, white player stroked hiki-Men. At
moment, red player was drawing backward and his Men was completely unguarded.
Fortunately for red player, this hit wasn’t ippon.
But, red player couldn’t make chances and
at 2:16, he stopped a moment again in halfway risky distance of his, and white
player didn’t miss it.
So, speed and stroke technique itself
didn’t differ among players, but opportunity of stroke differed so much that
end up in one-side victory.
In either case, red player’s footwork was stopped
and white player aimed at these opportunity to hit and succeeded.
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