Ronald R. Harbers said:
I find it amusing that you call anyone not affiliated with your Ryu a McDojo. I study under very qualified instructors. I will never insult anyone I have not visited firsthand. To hell with E-Budo, most of those guys never have been in combat. I may be 52 years old, but I still think I can bust a glove or two.
With the questions you have asked and the threads you have started on this particular section of the board referring to sword, it is glaringly obvious that you don't have much in-depth knowledge of JSA.
Most Japanese sword arts are traditional by default. Kendo is a gendai budo (A modern martial art) and it has a strong sense of tradition. Koryu budo (classical/ old school martial arts) like kenjutsu or iaijutsu depending on school are always steeped in tradition. That's how they survive and are promagulated to students. Not on a large scale like modern arts like karate or aikido, but the schools systems are still passed on.
A large number of the members who participate on E-budo do either gendai or koryu sword arts and are rather well skilled and some have spent a rather long time in Japan studying these traditions. Your using the excuse "To hell with E-Budo, most of those guys never have been in combat." is just a cop out because you have less knowledge. Your ability to "bust a glove" as you put it really doesn't cut any ice either.
Some koryu practicioners actually do partake in some MMA like BJJ and shootfighting as well. And if you think traditional Japanese martial arts aren't really that combative, why are eye gouges, ear slaps, and other vital strikes taught in jujutsu? Or how about Ken/iaijutsu where knowledge of anatomy is taught when training in kata, so that the most effective cut is made?
The Kenjutsukai is rather an antithesis of what real traditional kenjutsu is. You can't just take techniques and kata from different ryuha and systemize them the way you can with karatedo. Besides technique, each kenjutsu ryuha has it's own flavour, it's own individual concept of how to combat enemies and it's own psychological mindset.
Now back to the topic of the thread; Most JSA systems/schools don't use patches on their keikogi, unless it's a montsuki for demonstrations when a family crest (kamon) are used on the back, shoulders and sleeves of the montsuki.
