KIAI Q#1: What is your favorite technique or combination in sparring? Do you have different techniques when sparing with advanced practitioners and beginners?
 
 
Brent: Seme - Men

L. U. Amor El: I dont use any one technique or combination, I am a counter fighter, with me there is no first strike.

Dejan: My favorite technique is left harai waza folowed with kesa giri.
 

KIAI Q#2: You probably know that Korean based World Kumdo Association tries to enter the Olympics, despite the opposing from Kendo practitioners in International Kendo Federation. What is your opinion about this?
 

Brent: Kendo is Budo not a sport - keep it out

L. U. Amor El: I think all the sword arts should be allowed.  I am pro Kenjutsu, however I believe in old world ideologies, sword to sword improves both the art and the swordsman. How can you know your weakness's if you never fight outside your own realm.  This to me is like those inhouse tournaments where all the schools belong to the same teacher?  This is not beneficial to the art you must meet other systems and styles to improve your art.

Dejan: Kenjutsu (and all forms of japanese swordsmanship) cannot be sports.

 
KIAI Q#3: I am sure everyone among us has some role-model when it comes to Japanese sword arts. To some it is Miyamoto Musashi, to some it is modern kendo champion, or some old head of an iaido style... And to most of people in budo it is a founder of their particular art, or maybe even their own sensei. Which one is yours - and can you explain us why?
 
 
Brent: Nakanishi Sensei - visited New Zealand - 8 Dan in Kendo / Iaido and Jodo. Why - because of the grace of the man and the fact that he truly was humble.

L. U. Amor El: Surprise -- my role model is a cartoon:  Rurouni Kenshin the Battosai. He uses a reverse blade, he does not kill his opponents much like Musashi defeating people with a boken while they used live blades.  Known as "Battosai, the man slayer" Rurouni Kenshin.

Dejan: I don't have any role models.