The Bollmanator
This guy continues to surprise me with his ‘Trung-do’-ness. He lined up right next to me and the way he carried himself was quite (as Viet mentioned) pretentious. Hard for me to describe his actions in writing, but its funny and disturbing at the same time.
Anyway, got my men on first again last night, though I had it on quite tight and again it was giving me a headache. I had to retie it during training to relieve the pain.
We did the normal routine last night. I tried to focus on getting good tenouchi on my cuts. I realised that I hadn’t really worked on tenouchi other than when we do suburi. Anyway, I did find that my cuts were a bit more snappy, and that my men cuts had a bit more ‘whack’ in them. We had Chiaki train with us last night, and I when I got to her on the rotation, I was thinking ‘please, not kote cuts….’ Sensei ‘OK, now kote cuts’… Doh! Though she was nice to me and raised her wrists a bit so that I wouldn’t have to completely lean over to reach it, hehe, I really hope she doesn’t read this stupid blog. She gave me a bit of a smile when we osameto-ed. Must have been laughing at my pathetic kiai (which I really tried to go all out on, hehe).
Anyway, a few rotations down, I noticed that she was telling someone off, and quite loudly, and I looked back and sure enough, it was the Bollmanator! Hehe. She later said that she told him not to step forward when opening for a doh cut, or something like that. But it was like this… he opens, she cuts…’don’t step forward. He open, she cuts… ‘Don’t step forward!’ He opens, she cuts… ‘Don’t step forward!’ Bollmanator ‘But that’s not how I was taught!!!’ Chiak; osameto…walks back. Hehe, after training she asked me if there was something wrong with him, like is he deaf or something. I’m really starting to think that the Bollmanator is taking private lessons with the Trungster. I wonder why he can’t make Wednesdays trainings. I also saw Andrew trying to teach him something. Apparently he got sick of all the ‘help’ that was thrown his way that he left halfway through training.
Anyway, enough bitching.
Not much to talk about regarding jigeiko, because it just wasn’t in me on Monday night. I had Pei first up. I ‘gave face’. One thing I noted was that her kiai wasn’t strong enough… Hmm, must have got whacked really hard on the head because I can’t remember who I fought next. I know that I finished off with Li Jun. Can’t remember much from that, though she did tell me at one point that sensei told her to always acknowledge if someone has cut you. Hmm, something like that.
Bah, too many things on my mind at the moment that its affecting my kendo. Need to refocus.
Anyway, got my men on first again last night, though I had it on quite tight and again it was giving me a headache. I had to retie it during training to relieve the pain.
We did the normal routine last night. I tried to focus on getting good tenouchi on my cuts. I realised that I hadn’t really worked on tenouchi other than when we do suburi. Anyway, I did find that my cuts were a bit more snappy, and that my men cuts had a bit more ‘whack’ in them. We had Chiaki train with us last night, and I when I got to her on the rotation, I was thinking ‘please, not kote cuts….’ Sensei ‘OK, now kote cuts’… Doh! Though she was nice to me and raised her wrists a bit so that I wouldn’t have to completely lean over to reach it, hehe, I really hope she doesn’t read this stupid blog. She gave me a bit of a smile when we osameto-ed. Must have been laughing at my pathetic kiai (which I really tried to go all out on, hehe).
Anyway, a few rotations down, I noticed that she was telling someone off, and quite loudly, and I looked back and sure enough, it was the Bollmanator! Hehe. She later said that she told him not to step forward when opening for a doh cut, or something like that. But it was like this… he opens, she cuts…’don’t step forward. He open, she cuts… ‘Don’t step forward!’ He opens, she cuts… ‘Don’t step forward!’ Bollmanator ‘But that’s not how I was taught!!!’ Chiak; osameto…walks back. Hehe, after training she asked me if there was something wrong with him, like is he deaf or something. I’m really starting to think that the Bollmanator is taking private lessons with the Trungster. I wonder why he can’t make Wednesdays trainings. I also saw Andrew trying to teach him something. Apparently he got sick of all the ‘help’ that was thrown his way that he left halfway through training.
Anyway, enough bitching.
Not much to talk about regarding jigeiko, because it just wasn’t in me on Monday night. I had Pei first up. I ‘gave face’. One thing I noted was that her kiai wasn’t strong enough… Hmm, must have got whacked really hard on the head because I can’t remember who I fought next. I know that I finished off with Li Jun. Can’t remember much from that, though she did tell me at one point that sensei told her to always acknowledge if someone has cut you. Hmm, something like that.
Bah, too many things on my mind at the moment that its affecting my kendo. Need to refocus.
posted by Son at 2:13 pm
1 Comments:
I told you I can't kiai :( It's killing my throat. Are u as deaf as bollmanator or whatever his name is, hehe....my throat and chest was and still is feeling very weak.
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