Pecha Kucha about katana and technology

At Ignite Boulder (using a Pecha Kucha derived format) Jonathan Kahan gave a talk about the samurai sword (katana). It’s an entertaining short presentation on the craftsmanship and highly technical methods used by the swordmakers in ancient Japan in creating these sophisticated weapons. As a Takeda-Ryu budoka I’m happy to know that if Tom Cruise looks cool (see 1:27 minutes into the talk) with a sword then there might be hope for me as well

The talk is published by O’Reilly under a Creative Commons BY-SA license

Back and diving in…

I’m back from a very nice holiday in Austria.
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Photek

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I can remember playing Photek ‘s music all the time on tape (remember that analogue medium, kids?) given to me by some friends at school. Today I came across this clip on Theo ‘s blog and couldn’t resist posting it. Now, I wonder how this type of Kendo (apperently it’s called “Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu (Two Swords Technique)” as that’s the name of this track) relates to Takeda-Ryu