Immune to bruising
I think I might be immune to bruising. I got whacked really good on the forearm just above the kote last night. At the time it was quite red and swollen, so I thought 'hmm, this is gonna bruise quite nicely'. But when I work up this morning, there was nothing there. A couple of purple dots, but thats about it. Now I can go get those adamantium bone upgrades cos I know I can heal fast enough to survive it.
Anyway, exams aren't quite over yet cos I think last nights training had even less than monday nights training, but a few old faces turned up who haven't been there for a while. They're too softcore if you ask me. I don't even have exams and I still turn up to all the trainings!
There weren't any senior people around at the start so the most senior people that were there were hesitant to take the warmup. In the end, 'A' took it and I think it was his first time. Good effort. Always hard first time. I'm still too hesitant to do it even though a few of the other suggested that I do it, but hey, I'm outranked by others there... and just a warning, if I take it, I'll take it to the max! 1000 suburi... for each set of cuts! hehe.
For our usual training, I was motadachi. I think I was too focussed on being a good motadachi and I didn't really do good kendo. Trying to choose what to open for uchikomi geiko is tough! In the end, I think I just came up with a pattern and pretty much just stuck with it. Something like men, kote, dou, kote-men, men. BORING... and BAD motadachi. I'll leave that for someone else next time.
Anyway, on to jigeiko. For the past few weeks, I feel like I've just been going through the motions at training. Lost some enthusiasm I guess. Need someway to get it back. There will be a shiai (competition) in about 3 weeks so I guess thats something to aim at. I wanna try and jigeiko with all the hard nuts at the club to get into gear. Its just a shame that not many of them show up, and also because we do the rotational jigeiko so you can't really choose who to do jigeiko with. Its fine to do jigeiko with someone less skilled though, but at the moment I feel like I want to get my ass kicked.
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Anyway, exams aren't quite over yet cos I think last nights training had even less than monday nights training, but a few old faces turned up who haven't been there for a while. They're too softcore if you ask me. I don't even have exams and I still turn up to all the trainings!
There weren't any senior people around at the start so the most senior people that were there were hesitant to take the warmup. In the end, 'A' took it and I think it was his first time. Good effort. Always hard first time. I'm still too hesitant to do it even though a few of the other suggested that I do it, but hey, I'm outranked by others there... and just a warning, if I take it, I'll take it to the max! 1000 suburi... for each set of cuts! hehe.
For our usual training, I was motadachi. I think I was too focussed on being a good motadachi and I didn't really do good kendo. Trying to choose what to open for uchikomi geiko is tough! In the end, I think I just came up with a pattern and pretty much just stuck with it. Something like men, kote, dou, kote-men, men. BORING... and BAD motadachi. I'll leave that for someone else next time.
Anyway, on to jigeiko. For the past few weeks, I feel like I've just been going through the motions at training. Lost some enthusiasm I guess. Need someway to get it back. There will be a shiai (competition) in about 3 weeks so I guess thats something to aim at. I wanna try and jigeiko with all the hard nuts at the club to get into gear. Its just a shame that not many of them show up, and also because we do the rotational jigeiko so you can't really choose who to do jigeiko with. Its fine to do jigeiko with someone less skilled though, but at the moment I feel like I want to get my ass kicked.
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posted by Son at 5:35 pm
5 Comments:
"I don't even have exams and I still turn up to all the trainings!"
That's precisely the reason! I would turn up to all the trainings if I didn't have exams, seriously I would.
And hey, what's the shiai you're talking about? Otsuka, or just an club shiai?
I was talking about otsuka. The club shiai isn't until the end of the year right?
And yeah, I was being sarcastic about not having exams.
Ah, damn, the thing about written text is that sarcasm doesn't travel very well. Hehe.
Club shiai happens around October, the week before SWOTvac.
wouldn't it be better to have the club shiai after everyone finishes their exams?
And yeah, can anyone just go to otsuka?
It would be too late, I think. Many students will have left for their mother countries, and almost everyone's kendo will be scratchy from cramming, studying and skipping training. It's traditionally held at around October during a normal training session, but for the first time last year we held it as a full day event on Saturday. I reckon this way is better, even though it's so close to the exams.
As for the Otsuka, in previous years people could just rock up on the day and compete (as long as you have enough partners to form a team) I believe it's the same this year. Each team has three contestants; one low-grade, one medium-grade, and one high-grade, so you can compete regardless of skill level.
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