As to whether Kendo is thus (or otherwise) an "unrealistic" martial art: aren't they all; and what's "realistic", anyway? Kendo is a pretty good simulation of two people in armour beating each other up with bamboo swords, but this is, it might be argued, not exactly the general case. I haven't seen many pub fights in Clydebank determined by such means, and it's also something of a rarefied abstraction of even feudal Japan.
Alex.
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