Kendo sticks hurt so bad. I trained for a couple of weeks with my best friends dad who's like one of those super martial artist guys (everyone knows 1) and he'd never take it easy on me. The freaking guy hit me in the neck like 4 times during training. I can't begin to say how many times my arms, legs, and body got pelted by that thing....but it's pain the likes you don't enjoy dealing with. Everytime i'd say like "ouch" he'd tell me to quit my bitching....screw martial arts, i'm buying a gun!