✅ Fix footwork timing
✅ Loosen shoulders for cleaner, sharper strikes
✅ Kiai as pressure — not just volume
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There’s a skill your students use in every keiko, but almost no one teaches it. It’s not footwork. It’s not seme. It’s the voice in their head — and you can coach it.
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In kendo, focus will break. A bad call, a slip up...and suddenly, you’re gone. At my first World Kendo Championships in Santa Clara, I learned the hard way that the real skill isn’t never losing focus. It’s snapping back in before the next 'hajime'. Here’s how to train it.
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