Kendo Guide for Beginners: A Kendo Instruction Book Written By A Japanese For Non-Japanese Speakers Who Are Enthusiastic to Learn Kendo Paperback – August 27, 2011

This book is very helpful for people who want to learn about Kendo. The book explains all the basics about kendo from the correct way to enter the dojo and bow all the way up to how to actually strike and defend. The book has black and white illustrations to make things easier to understand. However, this book is no substitute for actual Kendo lessons. This book should be used to supplement actual, real life Kendo training.

I have been training Kendo for about 15 months. There are so many things in this book I wish I had known about earlier in my training. I'm going to recommend it to students in our dojo's beginner class. The book has links to many of Imafuji Sensei's videos, giving it a very rich range of content. I shared the section on how to hold a Shinai with one of my Sempai, who also teaches the beginning class. He said that the "number 1" hand gesture, was a very useful method of showing new students how to have the correct grip.I hope many people purchase this book. There isn't anything out there that I've seen that has information really geared for beginners.

I would recommend this book to a beginning practitioner. It provides a good outline of the basics while describing the, in enough detail to at least get a basic understanding that will supplement well with one’s training.

This book's purpose is to teach and reinforce the basics of Kendo. Japanese Sword fighting is so much more complicated and ritualistic that what the Media At Large lets on. This book was made for the people who do not have a Dojo that teaches correct techniques and those who do not have a dojo near them. I joined the website to learn about Kendo and to learn to practice Kendo and have waited for even a small amount of the information Masahiro Imafuji shared to be in written form; and now it is. This book is worth more than the listed price.If you want to learn what real Kendo is, buy this book, read it, and practice what you have learned.

Great product! Arrived quickly!

When it comes to the martial arts and ways nothing is better than a competent teacher. This is a resource worthy of a practioner's library. The video and descriptions don't take the place of a sensei's correction in real time but I'd recommend this book.

Wonderfully detailed book going through the basics of Kendo. Really like how his lessons in the book are paired with his online videos. Have already recommended and will again. Enjoy

Hiro is someone I recently discovered and immediately have a lot of respect for. He makes great videos and has a website dedicated to art and spirit of Kendo as well as it's budo aspects; not just the sport aspects. This book is great for people like me who don't have access to a kendo dojo but still want to learn.