The Japanese martial art called Atarashii Naginatado (or simply naginata for the sake of brevity) started in Finland on 15 February 2009. Before that, there had been only a few instances where a random group of people had been training with a visiting teacher.
Currently, the art is practiced by around 10-15 people in the Helsinki area, excluding schools where more ancient disciplines are taught.
Last Thursday, a few members from the Naginata division of the Helsinki Kendo Club created a video for a competition organized by the Finnish Sports Federation. This video can be viewed on several video sharing services, as I wanted to test their qualities.
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, Flickr, and then YouTube. 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.