The purpose of this study was to clarify the learning needs of a kendo lesson of the college student who majors in the gymnastics of the teacher-training course learns. The subjects of this study were 30 attendance students of a kendo lesson. 28 persons’ reply which carried out the reply by free description to the question of “something to study by the lesson of kendo” was analyzed using text mining. As a result, It was shown that the contents of the reply have the feature by the existence of kendo experience. The words by which the contents of the reply of the group which is inexperienced in kendo are denoted characteristically were“ kendo”,“ courtesy”, and a“ rule”. In the group which is experienced in kendo by lesson of a junior high school and a high school, “lesson”, “custom”, and “capability” were characteristic language. In the group which is experienced in kendo by club activity,“ instruction”,“ teaching”, and“ teacher” were characteristic language. Thus, it was guessed that the learning needs for a college student’s kendo lesson changed with existence of kendo experience. In a kendo lesson, it is important for a teacher to make the college student itself conscious of the learning target according to experience of kendo in addition to instruction adapted to the college student’s skill.