Kendo Crazy
This morning Nick Smith from ABC7’s View from the Bay interviewed Deb Clearwaters, Director of Education about upcoming Samurai-related programs. One of the programs highlighted was the Asia Alive Martial Arts Series which begins August 7. Kendo is the first of the martial arts highlighted in the series and Richard Hill from the Northern California Kendo Association and his associate Atsu were on-hand to demonstrate. My 10-yr old son Patrick who was observing the kendo demonstration loved it. His comment: “Wow! You can scream as loud as you want inside the museum and hit other guys with sticks?! I want to do that!” We will definitely be back for the program. Elvin McDonald is the guy filming the demo. The segment airs on View from the Bay next Tuesday. Footage of the footage courtesy of Nick Smith’s iphone.
5 Responses to “Kendo Crazy”
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xensen on July 30th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Cool video, Michele. If Patrick wants to hear loud screaming in the museum he can always come up here to our side of the fourth floor at deadline time.
namastenancy on July 30th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I thought I heard muffled screams the last time I was in the museum! I thought you were torturing some miscreant but now that you mention it, it was probably the staff. But what good is art if you don’t suffer at little?
xensen on July 31st, 2009 at 9:36 am
Namastenancy, sometimes we give a quiz to visitors to see if they have fully absorbed the information on our object labels. If they don’t perform well we may choose to apply a little discipline. That is probably what you heard.
namastenancy on July 31st, 2009 at 10:18 am
ROFLOL! If I see some member of the museum with a crazed look in their eye, I now know to run, run, run away!
wasabipress on July 31st, 2009 at 11:30 am
Clearly the inspiration for Lucas’ lightsaber fights…I love the mystery of the caged mask and full body cloaking- could be a woman, could be a man under there. Hollow split bamboo swords make the best crashing noises. Go Richard!