r/kendo • u/MountainDragonfly821 4 kyu • 3d ago

New Waza?

Random Kendo thought, has anyone ever created a new waza? What’s the newest waza historically? When and how would it be recognized? Just wanted to ask for fun.

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u/Francis_Bacon_Strips 3d ago edited 3d ago

For some reason I sometimes instinctively do a kote-kaeshi-men and I noticed it throws off a lot of high level kendokas, they just don't expect their kote to get kaeshi, since most of the (rational and reasonable thinking kendoka) would be doing suriage or nuki wazas in that situation. Not a new waza though.

I once got a men-ukenagashi-gyaku do once from one of my senseis a long time ago, I still thought it was cool, but I couldn't just pull it off for some reason?

And finally, men-kaeshi-gyaku do was pretty hot during covid, I've seen a guy who successfully attempted it and I'm pretty sure he could've done it since he was hired as a police(gotta have good Kendo to get hired), others were just striking other people's armpits.

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u/wisteriamacrostachya 3d ago

I've been hit with gyaku do off the men block, though I think aite blocked on the same side. Wasn't really a suriage though, more of a crisp kaeshi style block into the do-uchi.

Aite was (is) very very skilled and fast, as you mention it seems hard to do cleanly.