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If you want to learn how to use a Katana specifically, take Kendo.....You can usually find lessons in any major city, and most universities have a kendo club.
However, Kendo is bound by tradition and is thus ultra stylized and limited (you are not allowed to stab to the body, only the throat, etc.) in ways that can prevent you from ever becoming truly effective with the sword. The rigidly structured swordsmanship taught by kendo is the reason Akido exists.....When Akido guys take on olympic-style fencers who have been given a boken or a shinai, they get their asses kicked because they are no longer able to anticipate what is going to happen (for instance, they get stabbed in the gut, repetedly).
Anyways, go get lessons, from a tradional school of some kind (either Kendo, or strip fencing, etc.). Don't waste your time with any of the fringe fencing groups that are out there, they are almost without exception only considered impressive by themselves.
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