Traditional Kend?
Traditional Kendō Traditional Kendō; also named Classical Kendō.
Traditional Kendō is represented by a configuration of training that emphasizes self-cultivation through training in combat readiness with the sword as defined by the tenets and traditional practices of classic Japanese martial culture.
Traditional Kendō stress training with the shinai and is concern with combative realism with the sword exercised in the form of kata training. Traditional Kendō do not take part in tournament play (shiai-kendo) but correspondingly maximiza traditional martial training methods that have combative application or that express deeply symbolic attachments to the traditional martical tradition which are tokubetsu keiko, poetry, song, kenbu, Mushashūgyo and shintō relationship.
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Dann, Jeffrey (1978): Kendo in Japanese Martial Culture; PH.D. thesis. University of Washington, p. 200-201.