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A story of Atarashii Naginatado at the Helsinki Kendo Club

The Japanese martial art called Atarashii Naginatado (or just naginata for the sake of shorter writing) started in Finland in 15th February 2009. Before that there had been few times when a random group of people had been training with a visit

The Japanese martial art known as Atarashii Naginatado (or simply naginata, for brevity) was established in Finland on 15th February 2009. Prior to this, training occurred occasionally when a visiting teacher interacted with a small group.

Presently, about 10-15 individuals practice this art in the Helsinki region, aside from institutions teaching more traditional disciplines.

Last Thursday, members from the Naginata division of the Helsinki Kendo Club produced a video for a competition hosted by the Finnish Sports Federation. You can view this video on various platforms; I tested their capabilities:

Most of these services converted the video within half an hour, but Yahoo has already taken over five hours. The easiest services to publish a video on were Vimeo and Flickr; YouTube was also quite easy. Kyte was the most difficult, although Ovi was not easy either.

For video encoding quality measures, see the video yourself and use the HD (high definition) setting if available.